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Art in March

The art world turns its focus on Hong Kong again this March with multiple exhibitions bringing thousands of art pieces to see, experience and explore. The art is mainly from emerging and established artists from across Asia.

One man’s art though is another’s trash and you’ll wonder exactly what the attraction of some pieces are – but there’s enough variety that you’ll probably find a few things to discus and enjoy.

Art Central

Art Central is a contemporary art fair at the Central Harbourfront from 27 March – 1 April, 2018 with exhibitors showcasing new talent alongside some of the most established galleries from across Asia and the globe.

Art Central
Date: 27 March – 1 April, 2018
Venue: Central Habourfront
Tickets: $500, $230 from Ticketflap
More info:
26 March: 5-9pm
27-28 March: 11am–5pm
29 March: 11am–9pm
30-31 March: 11am-7pm
1 April: 11am-5pm

Art Basel

2018’s Art Basel features 248 galleries from 32 countries including many of the world’s leading modern and contemporary art galleries. They will be exhibiting paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, prints, photography, film, video and digital art by over 4,000 artists.

Art Basel
Date: 27–31 March 2018
Venue: HK Convention and Exhibition Centre
Tickets: $2,280, $950, $850, $600 $400, $300, $200 from HKTicketing
More info:
28 March: 5-9pm
29 March: 1-8pm
30 March: 1–9pm
31 March: 11am–6pm

Asia Contemporary Art Show

Artworks from Asia and the world at the 12th edition of the Asia Contemporary Art Show, March 23-26 at the Conrad Hong Kong. Browse and buy original paintings, limited editions, sculpture and photography by artists from around the world.

Asia Contemporary Art Show
Date: 23-26 March, 2018
Venue: 40/F-43/F, Conrad Hong Kong
Tickets: $220
More info:
23 March: Noon–9pm
24 March: 6–9pm
25 March: Noon–8pm
26 March: Noon-6pm

Harbour Art Fair

A new hotel art fair at the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel from 24-26 March. Riding on the current trend of Korean culture, the Harbour Art Fair will be exhibiting nearly 60 emerging Korean galleries and over a hundred art works. The fair will also feature art talks, workshops, and tasting sessions.

Harbour Art Fair
Date: Noon-8pm, 23-26 March, 2018
Venue: 7/F, Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel
Tickets: $100

Wine & Spirits Fair

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Wine-spirits-press-Conference-HKCEC-24-October-2017/n-cV2Bvp/i-KbgFJVz

The annual Wine & Spirits Fair returns to the HKCEC, the first two days are for the trade only. But on the 11 November the public can attend and explore, sample and a massive range of wine and spirits from across the globe.

Wine & Spirits Fair
Date: 10:30am, 9-11 November, 2017
Venue: HKCEC
Tickets: $200
More info:
9-10 Nov – Trade only
11 Nov – Public

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Wine-spirits-press-Conference-HKCEC-24-October-2017/n-cV2Bvp/i-PZVSwpz

Art Central

Art Central
Date: 27 March – 1 April, 2018
Venue: Central Harbourfront
Tickets: $500, $270, $230 from Ticketflap
More info:
26 March: 5-9pm
27-28 March: 11am–5pm
29 March: 11am–9pm
30-31 March: 11am-7pm
1 April: 11am-5pm

Art in March

The art world focuses on Hong Kong in March with four exhibitions bringing thousands of art pieces from emerging and established artists mainly from across Asia.

Art Central
A contemporary art fair at the Central Harbourfront from 20-25 March 2017 with exhibitors showcasing new talent alongside some of the most established galleries from across Asia and the globe.

Art Central
Date: 20-25 March, 2017
Venue: Central Habourfront
Tickets: $500, $230 from HKTicketing
More info:
20 March: 5-9pm
21 & 22 March: Noon–5pm
23 March: Noon–9pm
24 March: Noon-7pm
25 March: 11am-7pm

Art Basel
Many of the world’s leading Modern and contemporary art galleries will exhibit paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, prints, photography, film, video, and digital art by over 4,000 artists.

Art Basel
Date: 22–25 March 2017
Venue: HK Convention and Exhibition Centre
Tickets: $850, $650, $450, $350, $250 from HKTicketing
More info:
22 March: 5-9pm
23 March: 1-8pm
24 March: 1–9pm
25 March: 11am–6pm

Asia Contemporary Art Show
Artworks from Asia and the world at the 10th edition of the Asia Contemporary Art Show, March 17-20 at the Conrad Hong Kong. Browse and buy original paintings, limited editions, sculpture and photography by artists from around the world.

Asia Contemporary Art Show
Date: 17-20 March, 2017
Venue: 40/F-43/F, Conrad Hong Kong
Tickets: $220
More info:
18 March: Noon–9pm (5- 9pm Friday ART Night)
19 March: Noon–8pm
20 March: Noon–6pm

Harbour Art Fair
A new hotel art fair at the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel from 24-26 March. Riding on the current trend of Korean culture, the Harbour Art Fair will be exhibiting nearly 60 emerging Korean galleries and over a hundred art works. The fair will also feature art talks, workshops, and tasting sessions.

Harbour Art Fair
Date: Noon-8pm, 24-26 March, 2017
Venue: 7/F, Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel
Tickets: $100

Updated: 6 March, 2017

Asia Adult Expo

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2016/Asia-Adult-Expo-2016/i-vnq5Pwb

It’s Asia Adult Expo time where China’s sex toy manufacturers showcase their products to stores and buyers from across the globe. The wholesale prices are ridiculously cheap, a stark reminder of the margins involved in much of retail today.

https://youtu.be/KofNsG9epAU

In recent years a lot of creativity, thought, science and manufacturing wizardry has gone into improving and enhancing how we can bring ourselves and our partners pleasure. Although I’m not sure that many of us will be wanting to fiddle with a phone app in the middle of an orgasm… And a first person perspective 3D VR film loses it’s impact when as is legally required in Japan genitals are pixelated out.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2016/Asia-Adult-Expo-2016/i-Sr9XC4s

At any other product expo, visitors to the show would be touching, examining the products to check for quality, design… Yet still society’s taboo on pleasuring ourselves and others exerts it’s influence with most visitors discretely looking from outside a booth rather than stepping in as they would with other product expos.

If you don’t fancy a visit to sex store but want to improve your sex life most of the manufacturers have websites where you can buy direct through Alibaba.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2016/Asia-Adult-Expo-2016/i-dFRJpkH

Asia Adult Expo
Date: 28-31 August 2016
Venue: HK Convention & Exhibition Centre
Tickets: By invitation, trade

Annie Leibovitz – Women: New Portraits @ Kennedy Town – 31 May, 2016

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2016/Annie-Leibovitz-Women-31052016/i-p4zx37q

Opening this week in Kennedy Town is a ‘pop-up’ exhibition of Annie Leibovitz’s photos entitled WOMEN: New Portraits. Leibovitz’s emphasis in the title… Except they’re not really new portraits most have appeared in the media over the last couple of years.

The pop-up exhibition space is the whole floor of an un-renovated industrial building in Kennedy Town, yet the mostly A3 size photos (printed on an office printer) are crammed together in four tight rows. The bottom less than a foot off the floor, making reflective study and appreciation of the photos hard. Far more interesting are the original Women’s photos from 1999 exhibited as a slideshow on three big screens.

https://youtu.be/ZYh8pAAM-Wk

Annie Liebovitz WOMEN:New Portraits – Hong Kong May 2016 (https://youtu.be/ZYh8pAAM-Wk)

Leibovitz’s is in Hong Kong for three days courtesy of the exhibition’s Swiss bank sponsor and in person she’s engaging and has anecdotes about each photo. It was sad though to hear her talk of considering her legacy and how people and history will view her photography as her current reference frame as to which photos she’ll exhibit and who/what she’ll shoot.

As someone who claims each photo tells a story, the tale the exhibition tells is of Leibovitz in need of a pay-cheque. There’s nothing wrong with that, but few of the ‘new’ photos would merit a second look without Leibovitz’s name and the well known status of the subjects. Further exemplified with her newly released photos of the Queen in Vanity Fair. That said the exhibition’s free and the original Women’s series is worth enjoying again.

Annie Leibovitz – WOMEN: New Portraits
Date: 10am-6pm, 3-26 June, 2016
Venue: 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town
Tickets: Free

Photography: Jayne Russell

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2016/Annie-Leibovitz-Women-31052016/i-M7Mz84m

Vinexpo

Over 1300 wine producers and distributors from across the globe are exhibiting and showcasing their wines at this year’s Vinexpo. There’s something for everyone to enjoy and taste from the casual wine drinker to the connoisseur. As well as two floors of wine to explore, there’s seminars and curated tastings to enjoy.

Vinexpo
Date: 9:30am-6:30pm, 24-26 May 2016
Venue: HKCEC
Tickets: $600 (free with invitation)

Art Week: 21-27 March

The art world focuses on Hong Kong next week with three exhibitions bring thousands of art pieces from emerging and established artists mainly across Asia.

Art Central
A contemporary art fair in the heart of Hong Kong at the Central Harbourfront 23-26 March 2016 (First Night 21 March) with over 100 exhibitors showcasing the next generation of talent alongside some of the most established contemporary galleries from across Asia and the globe.

Art Central
Date: 23-26 March 2016
Venue: Central Harbourfront
Tickets: $500, $230 from HKTicketing
More info:
23 & 24 March: Noon – 7pm
25 March: 11am – 7pm
26 March: 11am – 6pm

Art Basel
239 of the world’s leading Modern and contemporary art galleries display premier paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, prints, photography, film, video, and digital art by over 4,000 artists.

Art Basel
Date: 24–26 March 2016
Venue: HK Convention and Exhibition Centre
Tickets: $850-$150 from HKTicketing
More info:
24 March: 1- 9pm
25 March: 1 – 8pm
26 March: 11am – 6pm

Asia Contemporary Art Show
Artworks from Asia and the world at the 8th edition of the Asia Contemporary Art Show, March 24 – 27 at the Conrad Hong Kong. Browse and buy original paintings, limited editions, sculpture and photography from some of the world’s most interesting and promising artists.

Asia Contemporary Art Show
Date: 24-27 March, 2016
Venue: 40/F-43/F, Conrad Hong Kong
Tickets: $220
More info:
25 March: 1 – 9pm ( 5- 9pm Friday ART Night)
26 March: 1 – 8pm
27 March: 11am – 6pm