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Art Basel is Launching A Virtual Show ⇒ The annual art exhibition usually set in Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach, USA; and Hongkong, is going online for the second time in history after cancelling the live event.

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The Online Viewing Rooms will provide galleries with a further possibility for engaging with our global audiences,’ said Marc Spiegler, Global Director, Art Basel, ‘complementing the essential personal interactions that continue to underlie the art market.’ 

This June, the Art Basel will present a second digital presentation featuring 281 galleries from 35 countries worldwide and 4,000 works of all mediums such as paintings, sculptures, installations, and photography, from Modern to post-war and contemporary periods.

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In the best - and worst - of times, art never, ever stops. These are how some creatives have continued to keep the fire burning - brightly.

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In the best - and worst - of times, art never, ever stops. These are how some creatives have continued to keep the fire burning - brightly.

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Hong Kong's ever-changing dining scene is constantly evolving.

So much so, that it can get a little difficult to keep track of it all, let alone remember to book and try the new restaurants that have caught your eye. From brand new concepts to fresh venues and additional locations, here is our guide to seven of Hong Kong's most promising new restaurants to try right now.

Well, what are you waiting for...

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Get inspired – and maybe even visit one day.

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Get inspired – and maybe even visit one day.

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The international art world was saddened to learn of the passing of one of its truly great characters, the Bulgarian-born sculptor and concept artist Christo, who died at home in New York on 31 May.

Christo and his wife Jeann-Claude were famous for wrapping up giant objects ­– famous buildings, landmarks and even entire landscapes. So right off the bat is our first Arty Fact: Both Christo Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon were on the same day, 13 June 1935, but at opposite ends of the Mediterranean – he in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and she in Casablanca, Morocco. Jean-Claude died of a stroke on 18 November 2009, also in New York. Both used their first names and were among the most famous working artistic couples.

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“Christo lived his life to the fullest, not only dreaming up what seemed impossible but realising it,” a statement from his office read. “Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artwork brought people together in shared experiences across the globe, and their work lives on in our hearts and memories.”

Christo was working on perhaps his most ambitious project ever, to wrap Paris’s Arc de Triomphe in 269,097 square feet of fabric. The couple first conceived the idea in 1962, and the project is still expected to be executed in September 2021 after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

[caption id="attachment_207479" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Floating Piers, 18 June to 3 July 2016, on Lake Iseo, Italy.[/caption]

The act of wrapping was only one facet of each project, which included the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont Nuef bridge in Paris, a giant curtain across a canyon in Colorado, and their largest work, Surrounded Islands in Biscayne Bay Florida in 1988. The couple considered the bureaucratic wrangling required to realise such works —as well as related documentation including environmental impact reports, drawings, and diagrams— to also be a part of the works.

[caption id="attachment_207480" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The Reichstag, Berlin, 1994.[/caption]

According to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s official website, the couple wrapped the Berlin Reichstag building in 1995 after 24 years of lobbying officials across six Bundestag presidents: “The wrapping became symbolic of unified Germany and marked Berlin's return as a world city. Christo's Wrapped Objects explore the transformative effect fabric and tactile surfaces have when wrapped around familiar objects. The concealment caused by the fabric challenges the viewer to reappraise the objects beneath and the space in which it exists.”

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Christo: 5 Stunning Projects to Remember Him By ⇒  Christo, a Bulgarian artist best known for wrapping buildings such as Berlin’s Reichstag and Paris’ Pont Neuf, has died of natural causes at the age of 84. We have selected five of his artistic projects that will surely go down in history.

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The Gates, Central Park, USA

This installation in New Work was created in 2005, by Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude, by installing 7,503 fabric panels suspended from saffron-coloured steel gateways built along New York City’s Central Park.

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