Celebrity Life

With cases on the rise and social distancing measures in place, we’re turning to sanctuaries within galleries to bide one’s time and soak up some cultural goodness.

Chapter Three

Crafts on Peel’s Stories Encapsulated: Wood is the third in a series of creations featuring handmade pieces by local and overseas artists. Works range from smaller decorative objects to functional wooden structures, showcasing a spectrum of talents and techniques within the wood crafting community.
Until May 21

Art on Your Sleeve

Wear Earthero’s first exhibition, Classics Reimagined, features a series of revamped rare vintage pieces with hand-painted artworks by local artists. The sustainable wearable art brand is a subsidiary of Earthero Project, founded by local eco-warrior Bertha Shum. Available from wear-earthero.com.

Portrait of the Artist

A collection of prints, Annie Leibovitz. The Early Years 1970-1983 and Wonderland at Hauser & Wirth, charts the early development of one of the greatest portrait photographers of our time.
Until February 12

Meeting Point

Galerie Koo presents We Met by Hong Kong sculptor Joe Li. Fascinated by the possibilities of fate and destiny, the artist encourages viewers to be conscious of the people in their lives by re-examining the ties that initially brought them together.
Until February 11

Hero image courtesy of Crafts on Peel and Galerie Koo.

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The Bored Ape Yacht Club lit up the internet — but its lead designer, Seneca, has been watching from the shadows

This black and white terrace house in Chip Bee Gardens is both a home and a cosy gallery for others to browse and buy art.

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Local sustainability-minded brand Wear Earthero launches two signature capsules this month with a focus on bringing new life to vintage designer goods, and upcycling locally sourced deadstock fabrics into wearable art. 

Wear Earthero (pronounced “Earth-hero") is a subsidiary of Earthero Project, an eco-community with a focus on providing sustainable services and education to schools and corporations. This year, the group launched two capsules to promote local artistic talent, and to bring more awareness to sustainability and heritage. 

About the brand

Founder Bertha Shum explains, “I never planned to start a clothing line, but, while writing and reading more about sustainability, I often come across various concepts about how polluting and environmentally unfriendly the fashion industry is. That’s when I started thinking about upcycling deadstock fabrics locally. 

“By chance, really, I came across this Facebook post a friend shared about a huge sale on deadstock fabric. I decided to pay a visit to Sham Shui Po to check it out. Chatting with the owner, I found out that it’s very common for fabric sellers to have just a few yards or scraps of fabric left after designers purchased enough. Often, those fabrics are hard to sell as it’s not scalable. The leftover will usually be disposed.” 

Working intimately with a team of seamstresses in a small studio in Sham Shui Po, Shum designs each piece of her collection in small matches, creating illustrations, patterns and labels using silkscreen printing to reduce their carbon footprint as much as possible. This process ensures that there’s minimal waste, and that all pieces are indeed, limited edition.  

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The exhibition

The first capsule by Wear Earthero is titled “Classics Reimagined” — a collection of vintage wearables freshly embellished with incredibly detailed art by local artist Viki Chan.  

Their second, “Wear Earthero Art-isan Collective”, was a platform that gathered young artists in the city to express their interpretations of local culture and conscious living. Each artist was given a piece of deadstock fabric to paint on; the pieces were then assembled by the seamstresses in Sham Shui Po into stylish kimono jackets to be auctioned off with a respective NFT. 

Bids ended in mid-January with all jackets successfully auctioned off. A portion of each sale was donated to charities J Life Foundation and Green Sense. 

Learn more about Wear Earthero here.

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The 500sqm subterranean museum is designed to weather current – and future – storms.

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To be auctioned by Sotheby’s, the three works – including Girl with Balloon – are valued at £10m

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It starts with a fog. A sort of blur where you can just begin to see glimpses of light and dark. Those movements become soft silhouettes, shifting in the back of your mind – still just out of reach. It is what happens when we are out of the practice of being present. We see something, but it’s too out of focus to become a concept we can grasp.  We are too distracted; we are too overwhelmed. We try harder. Concentrating on the moving figures, trying to imagine what is behind our eyes – imagining what we want it to be. Creativity steps in. We begin to fill in the blanks. Making assumptions from the abstract shapes now taking form. They start to come to life. Figures dancing, wind blowing. We begin to feel that moment, placing ourselves in a realm all but forgotten.  The more we seek, the more we see. And the deeper we look, we discover layers and layers within and without. Until, at last the picture starts to become clear. Then, …

We speak to the artist behind the sartorial fictional character Mr Slowboy.

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As such, the British Museum is pursuing its collaboration with the French start-up LaCollection to produce NFT versions of some of its artworks. After a first initiative dedicated to the Japanese painter Hokusai, the British institution is now turning to the works of William Turner.

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Built on a steep, odd-shaped hill, the 10,980 sq ft house has five floors with a meandering facade designed to divert around the mature trees on the site.

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(LOS ANGELES) — Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colorful paintings of cakes and cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, has died. He was 101. His death was confirmed in a statement Sunday by his gallery, Acquavella, which didn’t say where or when Thiebaud died. “Even at 101 years old, he still spent most…

It’s a fabulous wrap for Art Basel Miami and Miami Art Week and the events did not disappoint. The energy of Miami was back in full force like never before, energized by a global array of artists, designers, gallery owners, and anyone that has a passion for art, fashion, design, style and culture. And that was definitely the place to be for…

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