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A powerful tropical cyclone swept over southern China, but it did not deter an international auction house to continue with its sale on 9 October. Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern Art Evening Sale performed much lower than expected, with a total hammer price of HK$485 million (around US$61.7 million) dollars – less than the HK$648 million (US$83.2 million) dollar total estimated price. 

Fear of going out? Non! New hotels, restaurants and clubs in the French capital are generating excitement, so get ready for the return of the wait list.

Brave New World: Meet the New Generation of Art Collectors Share Young, ambitious, educated and wealthy, a new generation of art collectors is taking the art world by storm. Snapping up more works than ever before, a new and sharp-eyed generation of buyers is taking risks on emerging names and investing heavily in blue-chip artists. Beyond potential financial gains, these ambitious, educated and wealthy young people are also drawn to the prospect of joining the exclusive club that is the art world. “The growth has just been phenomenal,” says Charlotte Raybaud, head of evening sale, ...

Calligraphy Rhapsody, a retrospective exhibition of the French oil painter Georges Mathieu, who died in 2012. Since its inception last autumn, the sprawling, 105,000 sq ft cultural hotspot has featured work by artists including Mary Weatherford, Yayoi Kusama and Chris Huen Sin-kan. The exhibition was co-presented by Adrian Cheng, founder of the K11 Group and K11 Art Foundation, and Alexandre Giorgini, consul general of France in Hong Kong and Macau, as part of a series of arts programmes to foster cross-cultural dialogue. Headlining the programme was Calligraphy Rhapsody, curated by Catherin...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   An ultra-Orthodox Jew looks at parts of a Second Temple period (516 BC-AD 70) public building considered to be one of the most luxurious found to date, as they are unveiled by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem, July, 8, 2021. Israeli archaeologists unveiled new parts of a major public building in Jerusalem just metres from where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago. The opulent hall used by elites is the latest discovery to be made public by the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) from what it refers to as the W...