Plans are moving forward for Hong Kong’s much-anticipated M+ contemporary museum, a k a the Museum of Visual Culture (it will have art, design, architecture and more), to open in 2017, and Bloomberg’s Frederik Balfour offers a nice profile of its 58-year-old executive director, Lars Nittve, that doubles as a succinct overview of the project. Read More
Next month, a major show held in association with Christie’s and Adelson Galleries on the painter Andrew Wyeth will open at China’s YUAN nonprofit space before heading to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and, in September, Christie’s New York. Read More
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British duo Gilbert & George are the lucky artists who have been tapped by Jay Jopling, the owner of White Cube, to inaugurate the gallery’s new space in Hong Kong. The gallery announced today that it will open the 6,000-square-foot space, at 50 Connaught Road, on March 2 with a show of the partners’ “London Pictures,” their largest series to date. Read More
