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An Art-Filled Hong Kong Itinerary - Yolo Journal

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In Hong Kong, you could be heading home with a bag of dragon fruit from the wet market (as I was one day), pass by an auction preview, and end up standing inches from a gleaming Cézanne nature morte and an art advisor who, you learn from your involuntary eavesdropping, is actively pitching its sale to a serious client. (Or more likely, given the many zeroes on the price tag, one of their assistants.) This city, which I have called home for a long while, has expanded its mark onto the international art circuit rather prominently since Art Basel launched here in 2013, bringing with it an annual influx of galleries and their entourages from around the world. That hardly means there wasn’t art or a variety of art “scenes” here before that; art exists wherever people are—even if it is invisible to global collectors and galleries, even if it’s quiet and under the radar; semblances of “scenes” develop in communities even if they aren’t covered by the press. But in terms of the modern commerci

An Art-Filled Hong Kong Itinerary - Yolo Journal Dispatches An Art-Filled Hong Kong Itinerary by Sai Pradhan May 9, 2025 Like 1 Like(s) Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard Share on Mail (Opens in new window) Mail Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Save for later M+ Museum In Hong Kong, you could be heading home with a bag of dragon fruit from the wet market (as I was one day), pass by an auction preview, and end up standing inches from a gleaming Cézanne nature morte and an art advisor who, you learn from your involu

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