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Corporate Life…

From a video by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at the Asia Art Archive in HK… but the sentiments are pretty universal

Art HK. The elephant in the room.

Don't Touch

A Chinese city suspended in the midst of the Art HK galleries. Liu Wei’s ‘Don’t Touch’

Australia is an Asian country

Hong Kong is very shiny. Mirrored glass buildings reflecting each other in an endless spiral of narcissism: money admiring itself. What a perfect place for an art fair. The tactic of splitting the fair into two floors has worked better than anyone might have expected. It is a clear division between the rich and powerful […]

TV Lover

Detail from ‘TV Lover’ by Angjki Purbanando, one of a new wave of Indonesian artists making an impression at Art HK

Adrift in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong the only way is up. One tower block after another in neat rows, all the way from the outskirts of the city to the centre; gigantic skyscrapers protruding from the skyline.

Blog Numero Uno

To blog or not to blog? That is the question. Up until recently I would have answered: No way. But with each day, as newsprint becomes more and more obsolete, it seems that the virtual world is becoming a more reliable platform than the real one. My prejudices against this form of communication were probably […]

Elvis in Parkes

Imagine a sleepy country town of twelve thousand inhabitants transformed for one week every year by an invasion of raucous aliens wearing white bejeweled jump suits and huge wigs. Imagine a town on the edge of the Australian outback where the summer temperature rises regularly past 40 degrees Celsius, causing the tar on the roads […]

Olympic Kitsch

It was always going to be a media bonanza, but the orgy of praise heaped on Friday night’s Olympic opening ceremonies exceeded expectations. Whatever fears SOCOG or the IOC might have held for Sydney 2000 were swept away in a tidal wave of adulation, as columnists and talking heads vied with one another to find […]