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ComplexCon Hong Kong 2025 unveils a star-studded music lineup featuring headliners Metro Boomin and Zico. Photo: ComplexCon

ComplexCon Hong Kong announces Metro Boomin and Zico as 2025 headliners

A meeting of American and Asian hip-hop, the concerts also feature Quavo, Hong Kong favs MC Jin and Jace, and South Korea’s Changmo and B.I.

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Tilda Swinton hits Hong Kong to make the case for film preservation and praise the magic of old cinema. Photo: Courtesy of Chanel

Tilda Swinton brings star power to a conversation on classic Hong Kong films

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NewJeans perform during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024 in Seoul, South Korea, in December 2023. Photo: Getty Images

NJZ, formerly NewJeans, are coming to ComplexCon Hong Kong

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Angela Wu, associate professor at HKUST’s division of life science, and department of chemical and biological engineering. Photo: TMT

She tried several careers but found her niche in genetic sequencing

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The Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, home of Studio Ella’s Ella Bridgland. Photo: Joshua Lee
Architecture and design

Works by Tracey Emin and Hilarie Hon grace this designer’s Hong Kong home

A Hong Kong-based designer and her arts consultant husband reimagine the space by swapping out artworks to create distinct vibes.

Fashion

Fashion designers adore Snoopy. An exhibition reflects on 75 years of love

Art Basel

Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 expands beyond its traditional showcase

Art Basel

Ghosts and cyborgs on view at Art Basel Hong Kong

Curated by Para Site, this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong Film program has 7 screenings delving into modern life and creative expression.

Art Basel Hong Kong will take place this week. Photo: Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Basel

Beyond Art Basel Hong Kong: free events to check out during Arts Month

As well as ticketed events Art Basel and Art Central, free happenings this Art Week include talks about the role of tech and AI in the art world, installations, workshops and experimental music shows.

Hong Kong

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, March 23-29

From a home-grown boba brand’s new Kennedy Town outpost to hearty sandwiches at LMO Freshly Baked, here’s this week’s hottest spots.

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Hong Kong economy

More galleries from Middle East taking part in Hong Kong’s Art Central

The 10th edition of the art fair will include two galleries from the United Arab Emirates and one from Israel among 108 from across the world.

Art Central opens on Wednesday with 108 galleries from around the world taking part. Photo: Eugene Lee
Shenzhen

Art Week Shenzhen 2025 best exhibitions and events to visit

Those attending Art Basel Hong Kong have many reasons to squeeze in Art Week Shenzhen 2025, from a Jaffa Lam show to the opening of K11 HACC.

Instagram

15 art accounts to follow on Instagram, sharing quirky facts, memes and more

Check out the social media version of Art for Dummies, get tips from ‘your next door art girlie’, influencer @thatsprettyneeat, and discover stunning works by Yayoi Kusama or Louise Bourgeois.

Tourism

Mammoths, bison in prehistoric cave art French keep under wraps

Hundreds of carvings of prehistoric animals, and women, line a cave in southwest France. For 4 weeks a year researchers are let in to map it.

An ancient engraving in Cussac cave, France. Photo: AFP
Tourism

5 crowd-free museums to visit in Europe this year

Even in the most visited European cities, such as Rome and Prague, there are museums and places of historical relevance that offer respite from crowds.

The Mucha Museum in the newly renovated Savarin Palace, Prague, Czech Republic. Photo: courtesy Mucha Museum
Art Basel

Artist Sarah Sze on her first Asia solo exhibition in Hong Kong

The celebrated US artist is showing her large, dramatic multimedia and layered artworks at Gagosian gallery in Hong Kong.

Donald Trump

Trump portrait to be taken down after president said it was ‘distorted’

Trump took to social media to call on governor to take down painting at Colorado state Capitol.

Old Hong Kong

Then & Now | Hong Kong’s rich history of art clubs dates back to the 1850s

Art clubs and societies have helped shape the city’s vibrant and diverse cultural landscape, since the 19th century.

Secretary for District Administration Donald Liao Poon-huai (left) at an exhibition in City Hall, in 1985. Photo: SCMP Archives
Art Basel

Spider sculptor Louise Bourgeois’ inner world revealed in Hong Kong show

Hauser & Wirth’s exhibition of Louise Bourgeois is a deep dive into how the late artist’s fascination with the human body inspired her art.

Spider (2000) is one of Louise Bourgeois’ works on show at Hauser & Wirth’s “Louise Bourgeois: Soft Landscape” exhibition, in Central, Hong Kong. Photo: Christopher Burke
France

Painting attributed to a male artist for years was woman’s work

Lavinia Fontana, a leading woman painter of the Italian Renaissance, now credited with work a museum in Douai, France, believed was Flemish.

Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, March 23-29

Experience the Hong Kong Sevens at the new Kai Tak stadium, enjoy free art exhibitions at Tai Kwun Contemporary, try a Bruce Lee cocktail, or relish two-Michelin-starred Arbor’s latest tasting menu.

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Hong Kong

Showtime: 4 unmissable art exhibitions to keep you cultured

Not-to-be-missed artists about to open in Hong Kong include Emma McIntyre, Lynne Drexler, Louise Bourgeois and Emma Webster.

Emma McIntyre’s Portals and altars (2024). Photo: courtesy Emma McIntyre / Château Shatto (Los Angeles) / David Zwirner (New York)
What to do in Hong Kong

Is this our dystopian future? Hong Kong artist’s fantasy 2084

Not 1984, but 2084: Michelle Fung imagines a dystopian future in art that’s in part a response to consumerism and environmental woes.

Fame and celebrity

A-list art fans: the stars helping to sell art and widen its appreciation

Pharrell Williams and Steve Martin are two more famous collectors courted by the likes of the Brooklyn Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Art, and even staging their own shows.

Art Basel

‘I can change my colours’: Takashi Murakami traverses the rainbow of culture

Self-confessed melancholic geek Murakami, famed for his blend of classical and pop art, and numerous collaborations with the likes of Louis Vuitton, is coming to Hong Kong for Art Basel and ComplexCon.

Takashi Murakami has collaborated with fashion house Louis Vuitton. Photo: courtesy Louis Vuitton
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: Art everywhere throughout Hong Kong, European museums tour

With Art Basel and Art Central on the horizon, we speak with artists such as Takashi Murakami, as well as hit some European art destinations.

Adaptation on Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo: Japonisme Reconsidered – Temple Gardens, Nippori. Photo: ©2024-2025 Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved
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How 3 dancers accomplished one of ballet’s most difficult feats

New York City Ballet’s Unity Phelan, Mira Nadon and Miriam Miller talk about the huge challenge of Swan Lakes’ White and Black Swan roles.

Hong Kong culture

Art March is taking over Hong Kong. Here is what you shouldn’t miss

The Post covers what’s being offered across the city, including exhibitions, installations, hands-on experiences and discussions.

Art Basel

Hong Kong ASMR show brings internet trend out from behind the screen

Since ASMR took the internet by storm during the pandemic it has been a private, virtual experience. Weird Sensation Feels Good changes that.

Visitorstot the “Weird Sensation Feels Good” ASMR exhibition. Photo: Jonathan Wong
M+ museum of visual culture

Conversation of creativity: Picasso masterpieces meet modern Asian works

A Hong Kong exhibition puts the Spanish painter and sculptor alongside some of Asia’s finest in a groundbreaking artistic dialogue to try and reveal the man behind the myth.

Pleasure of Picasso – Mother and Child series (2020-2024) by Keiichi Tanaami, displayed at the “Picasso for Asia – A Conversation” exhibition at M+ Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District. Photo: Alexander Mak
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s intangible cultural heritage to be celebrated in new annual initiative

Different types of craftsmanship, performances, traditions and rituals among activities to be showcased across the month of June.

Art Basel

Picasso, Warhol and more land in Hong Kong for art month

With Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central about to open, here’s our rundown of this year’s highlights.

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