Enid Tsui

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There were hoots of laughter as the artist South Ho Siu-nam performed his new live performance piece during the May 10 opening of his exhibition “Wandering Daily” in Hong Kong. Wearing a pair of plain white, basic trainers laced up with different ends of the same 100-metre-long shoelace, Ho strutted around Blindspot Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang in faux military style, dragging a long trail of white string through the crowded room in his wake.

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A 95-minute bidding war would have made headlines even when the Hong Kong auction market was at its frothiest a decade ago, so a recent protracted battle over a 14th century Chinese calligraphy scroll was all the more remarkable for coming four years into a market downturn. Rao Jie’s 700-year-old, six-metre long, cursive-script calligraphy of two pieces of prose attracted more than 200 bids when it came up for sale during Sotheby’s 92-lot Fine Classical Chinese Paintings sale on April 10, 2025.

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Auctioneers Sotheby’s announced on Wednesday morning that it was postponing the sale in Hong Kong later that day of sacred Buddhist relics in response to a demand from the Indian government. New Delhi also demanded the immediate repatriation of the relics. The “Piprahwa Gems of the Historical Buddha” were to have been one of the highlights of a fortnight of auctions ongoing in Hong Kong that are focused on Asian works of art.

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Baron Guy Ullens, the Belgian businessman and philanthropist known for his pioneering contemporary art centre in Beijing and a violent family tragedy two years ago, died on April 19 at the age of 90. Ullens was born in San Francisco into an aristocratic Belgian family, and spent his early years moving from one country to another because of his father’s career as a diplomat.