Results are the highest since 2015 and come in just behind Sotheby’s $7.3bn. Hong Kong expansion plan will continue despite Beijing crackdown, as auction house "separates what is political and what is business"

This world-class institution is a magnificent achievement, but it faces a profoundly different political environment today from its inception 25 years ago

Millennial buyers boosted sales for Western artists, whose works accounted for $114m out of $185m

A luxuriant still-life painting of gladioli flowers should sell for over $10m

The Chinese artist will unveil a new work this week at the Southbank Centre for the English PEN 100 festival championing freedom of expression

Asian buyers are now the biggest spenders at international auctions and these digitally-native collectors are happy to splurge online

The layered history and uncertain future of a small island in the Finnish archipelago is used as a microcosm for the world via site specific works by 41 artists

Wong’s name appeared in a state-run newspaper article which he considered a “wanted list” for Beijing

Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions

Billionaire collector and property developer Adrian Cheng is leading the project to reopen the defunct 1950s cinema as a "cultural oasis"

Sneaker crowd turns out in force to see the New York-based artist's six-metre tall rocket surrounded by alien figures

The Gallery Exit founder was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm in December—now 43 artists are selling work to pay for his care

Exhibitors are down from 242 to 104 in a condensed fair that runs alongside Art Central in the same venue from 21 to 23 May

Newly released footage shows the full extent of the vast 65,000 sq. m space and the designs striking use of straight lines and concrete

Herzog & de Meuron-designed museum will not shy away from displaying controversial works, director assures

Director Louis Ng insists that the institution—due to open in 2022—will be distinct from its namesake in Beijing's Forbidden City

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West Kowloon Cultural District chief executive heads for early exit, accused of contributing to cost overruns and delays

Hong Kong police have arrested three men in relation to a $645m heist that included calligraphy by the Communist leader and other revolutionary art and ephemera

Local galleries have been invited by Art Basel to apply for participation in the November fair

The two fairs will take place at the same time in the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre in March

The New York dealer Edward Ressle opens a space in Shanghai, in the footsteps of the UK's Flowers Gallery and France's Villepin ventures in Hong Kong

Mutually beneficial collaborations between Western and Chinese auction houses are on the rise

As US levies toughest sanction yet on China for its destruction of Hong Kong’s relatively free political system, Weiming says he wants to pay tribute to the "people's fight for freedom"

Despite pandemic delays and the new National Security Law, the spring sales in the city last week fetched solid results

Plus, art historian Alyce Mahon on Leonor Fini’s illustrations. Produced in association with Christie's

Concerns over freedom of expression and self-censorship on the rise after introduction of new rules

Twelve galleries ventured out again for the bijou pop-up event Unscheduled

The artist was known for his brightly coloured abstract works, and as the founder of an art school that fostered a new generation of well-known artists