Muse magazine's Perry Lam: 'Art is manipulation'

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Hong Kong's outspoken cultural critic Perry Lam joins a panel discussion on the audience as puppet and the artist as puppeteer Perry Lam Perry Lam wants us to wake up and smell the BS. As totally passive receptors of information, we are being ...
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How 3 artists could save Hong Kong's Central market

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Saving Hong Kong's historical market artistically Three architects hope to save the Central street market, one booth at a time. off For Chow Yuk-yee, Hong Kong's bustling Central market is not just a livelihood, it's her home. She has spent her ...
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Interview: Eddie Lui steps down as JCCAC chief

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CNNGo chats with sculptor Eddie Lui who transformed an abandoned factory into a bustling arts hub Eddie Lui and his sculptures fired in special kilns in Foshan that bring the clay's minerals to the surface. off The Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre ...
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"Lustfully Yours" uncensored: Erotic art, Hong Kong-style

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A gallery of the erotic art shown at "Lustfully Yours: Porno Exhibition" at soon-to-close Hulahoop gallery Firenze Lai's "undress and knee down" (detail) is a meditative exploration of the body in blue tones. Hong Kong artist Toro Cheung's "161" ...
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Lustfully Yours Porno Exhibition: Erotic art as parting shot

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The lowdown on the artist-run gallery's latest and final erotic art exhibition "Lustfully Yours Porno Exhibtion": all in good fun. Consider Hulahoop Gallery 's erotic art showcase a grand exit. The artist-run gallery is pulling out all the stops with ...
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13 Unfortunate Cookies -- fortune cookies with a sadistic twist

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Thirteen Unfortunate Cookies Alazizi Gallery's exhibition amuses audiences at the expense of traditional fortune cookies Artist Alazizi wants us to think positively by laughing meanly at impossibly perverse predicaments. "13 Unfortunate Cookies" runs ...
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Interview: Jasper Wong, the least-uptight straight man in Hong Kong

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With a homoerotic Mr. T as his muse, illustrator Jasper Wong injects a much-needed shot of humor into Hong Kong's art scene Jasper Wong is totally floored by art. That's his own on the floor of the G.O.D. at The Peak. Hawaiian-born, Hong Kong-based ...
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At the end of the line: Wo Che Village through a local artist's eyes

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We follow illustrator Rainbow Leung to her home village and find that ordinary life inspires extraordinary art Illustrator Rainbow Leung is at the start of a very promising career. Newer buildings have cropped up in 200-year-old Wo Che Village, which ...
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Sotheby's Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2009

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Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, Hong Kong 22.283, 114.173 www.sothebys.com +852 2822 8143 October 3-8 0 0 This painting "Old City of Chongqing," by Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong, is estimated to be worth between ...
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