The summer exhibition at Harbour City is all about Smurfs this year! To be honest, I’ve never been a part of the Smurfs following but seeing pictures of cute little blue Smurfs all over the mall convinced me to check out the exhibition. ‘We’re All Smurfs!’ was originally to be shown till early August but is now ongoing until 21st August, which gave me ample time to check it out after returning from Singapore!
I just got back from a very refreshing month in Singapore, which was a great break from Hong Kong’s rapid pace. Yet there is something about Hong Kong’s energy that makes me not able to stay away for long, and it definitely feels good to be back!
I went to see Lynn Chadwick’s sculptures back in April when I was drowning in work and seriously needed to take a breather. Great thing that the British sculptor’s pieces were situated in a few Central buildings along a very convenient route, so I could walk around exploring a bit while discovering art!
Claude Monet descends in Hong Kong for the first time! A lot of people were excited about it, including me, because Monet is such an easy favorite among everyone, yes? The exhibition is part of the Le French May events this year, and is held at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum from 4th May to 11th July 2016.
I made a video for the first time! It features artworks at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 that move on its own, via electricity, or as an image. Cuz when artworks don’t stay still, you have to capture them in motion. ;)
Check out my accompanying reviews of Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 in these two posts here and here!
Technically, not all of the artworks/artists in this post are old. The artworks in this post are by artists well-loved and familiar to most, whether of contemporary art or of modern art of the 19th/20th centuries. For all of the new faces of contemporary art in my first review post, there was notably a number of works by a few select artists shown across the fair. Compared to the last two years, there was also a lot more of modern art to appeal to the shift in buyers’ tastes for modern art, which is always welcome by me.