Celebrity Life

Hi there, notice anything different about us? For months now, we've been working tirelessly behind the scenes -- and behind our screens! -- to give Prestige Online a head-to-toe makeover. Now that we've unveiled our new look -- featuring a refreshed layout and more dynamic visuals -- we'd like to celebrate by giving you, our valued readers, a full week of exclusive, luxurious giveaways.

From 6–12 March, we'll be giving away seven amazing prizes that are collectively valued at more than HK$80,000. One lucky winner will be selected each day and will be announced 24 hours after each giveaway prize is posted. We'll reveal one prize per day -- so check back daily to see what you could win!

Here’s how to win:

1. Follow Prestige Hong Kong on Facebook.
2. Subscribe to Prestige Online's weekly newsletters in the form below.

St. Regis Hong Kong

The prize: Two night weekend stay with afternoon tea, welcome drinks, and butler service (valued at HK$20,000)

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Set to open in April 2019, The St. Regis Hong Kong is one of the city’s most anticipated hotel openings of the year. So you’ll be one of the first guests in the world with this prize — the Rituals Suite Experience. Stay at the luxurious hotel for 2 nights and enjoy a whole host of activities including afternoon tea, welcome drinks and champagne. Not to mention their signature butler service so you can be looked after at any time of the day during your stay.

The Murray

The prize: One night stay at the Signature Suite and continental breakfast for two (valued at HK$8,800)

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Located in the iconic architectural Murray Building, The Murray reopened last year as a luxury landmark hotel in the heart of the city. And now you can win the chance to stay there in their Signature Suite, a contemporary and chic room furnished with a large bed, marble-floored bathroom and seamless technology. Followed by an intimate breakfast for just the two of you.

Arcane 

The prize: Dinner and wine pairing for two (valued at $4,000)

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If you haven’t been living under a rock and watched popular Netflix show ‘The Final Table’ then you’ll already be well acquainted with Michelin-starred restaurant Arcane and multi-award-winning Chef Shane Osborn. Serving modern European cuisine, the restaurant offers exceptional dishes led by the seasons. The lucky winner and a guest will dine on a special tasting menu, paired with some great wines.

Mandarin Oriental 

The prize: Two night weekend stay at the Harbour View Roomwith breakfast for two, and dinner for two at Mandarin Grill + Bar (valued at HK$21,000)

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As big fans of this luxurious hotel, we thought what better way to celebrate the Prestige Online relaunch than with a stay at the flagship. The winner can indulge in the five-star room and enjoy world-class facilities and amenities. But what’s more is the prize includes not only breakfast for two but also dinner for two at Michelin-starred restaurant Mandarin Grill + Bar — where only the finest ingredients have been used for classic grill dishes with a contemporary touch.

Arbor 

The prize: A Seasonal Tasting Dinner with wine pairing for two (valued at HK$4,550)

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If you enjoy innovative French cuisine, then you’ll want to win this special tasting meal at Michelin-starred restaurant Arbor. Created and crafted by Chef de Cuisine Eric Räty, the 6-course tasting menu will reflect the changing seasons and best produce that comes with it. Bringing together French techniques and premium ingredients from Japan, this dinner will be an evening to remember.

Grand Hyatt

The prize: A spa experience and afternoon tea for two (valued at HK$2,200)

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Treat yourself and a friend to spa and afternoon tea at the Grand Hyatt and you’ll get brownie points for sure. Start with a 60-minute massageat the award-winning spa Plateau along with a 30-minute radiance facial treatment, and finish the day with an indulgent afternoon tea set at Tiffin. The winner will also receive a spa day-pass to the enjoy the pool, fitness studio and sauna.

The Upper House

The prize: A one-night weekend stay in an Upper Suite and breakfast for two at Café Gray Deluxe (valued at HK$20,000).

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For our first prize, we want you to rise high above Hong Kong and enjoy the view from a spacious, 1,230-square-foot Upper Suite at The Upper House. Relax in luxury with a drink in hand (compliments of the mini bar) and admire the stunning harbour views from your living room, bed or limestone bathtub before waking up to a blissful breakfast for two at the hotel’s European contemporary restaurant, Café Gray Deluxe.

Terms & Conditions:

1. By entering this Prestige Online giveaway, you will be bound by these terms and conditions and acknowledge that you satisfy all eligibility requirements.
2. This contest is open to Hong Kong residents only, and entrants must be over the age of 18 [eighteen].
3. Entrants must subscribe to Prestige Online and follow our Facebook page for their entry to be valid. They must therefore maintain a public profile setting at all relevant times.
4. Every email entry will be entered in for the daily prize for the entire giveaway period.
5. Prizes cannot be exchanged for cash, credit and are non-transferrable to third parties.
6. Prestige Online reserves the right to cancel, re-draw or otherwise modify this giveaway at any time with immediate effect and without giving prior notice.
7. Entrants are limited to one giveaway prize per person each calendar year.
8. Winners will be contacted for prize redemption. Winners must respond within 24 hours of announcement, otherwise prize will be forfeited.
9. Photos are for reference only.

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Scott Campbell was in Hong Kong in December to present a series of new works at Over the Influence. We caught up with him at the opening to learn more about his colourful life.

“I always loved the sciences growing up, and I still do. I went to the University of Texas, and basically, I was interning in this bacteriology lab under this professor, who was doing cool stuff. He was basically trying to isolate bacteria growing on the leaves of plants. Long story short, for 12 years this guy was trying to figure out exactly what was happening in this bacteria’s metabolism and what protein was triggering this reaction. It just so happened that during my semester there, he did it. He figured it all out, he published his paper, received his kudos. Everyone in the lab was super excited, and I just kind of realised that I don’t have a 12-year attention span. I want to wake up and be like, “I want to do this today.”

I need that immediate gratification, even though science and research are so honourable, but the lifestyle is just not one that I’m compatible with. I dropped out and ran away to California. I happened upon tattooing, which was a way to draw pictures and feed myself, and travel and make cash. I was like a criminal gypsy for most of my twenties, and it was great. It was awesome, until you need things like health insurance. Tattooing supported me and I loved it, I still do. I wasn’t good at college. I finally accepted that it won’t fit no matter how hard I try. It worked out in the end.

The past 10 years I shifted to more fine-art projects, working in all kinds of mediums. I keep coming back to working with cash. I really love the dimension of it and the tactile quality. It’s the authority that money has, which is fun to destroy. It’s fun to take something that is so revered and just, you know, just fuck it up for the sake of making something beautiful. It demands people’s attention.

This show specifically is very specific in subject matter, it’s a lot of textural stuff with different skulls. They’re like an old friend. I was a rebellious punk rock kid who drew skulls to piss off my parents and it’s become this kind of mantra for me and obviously holds a lot of relevance in tattooing. I think they’re really important because accepting our mortality and having mortality in the room with us acknowledges that we’re temporary and everything we worry about on a day-to-day basis isn’t really as heavy as we make it.

Everything starts with a drawing, basically like a topographical map and then we cut each layer one by one. We lay all the money out and the drawing on top of it, and a laser cutter follows the path of the drawing. We stack them up and glue them on top of each other. I do some two-dimensional stuff, but I like to do things that are more engaging and pull you in a little bit more.

It feels a bit theatrical, I like the subtlety of the skull where it’s not what you immediately see. It’s present, but it doesn’t push itself upon you. It’s just playing with the hierarchy of the elements and which one you gravitate towards first.

I think I have a complicated relationship with authority, I don’t like being told I’m supposed to do something. The fact that I’m supposed to consider money so sacred immediately makes me want to tear it up. I will destroy the money for the sake of creating something that I think is more interesting, and just kind of treating it so disrespectfully that it’s just a medium. It’s just like a tube of paint or anything else. It’s taking away that authority about it.

Tattooing is pure in a way that it has no resale value. I’ll do a tattoo and it just serves emotional needs. We honour that, and its purpose, and it will never end up at Sotheby’s. My canvas has an opinion, though. If I want to get weird and experimental, I have to ask your permission. I definitely think, in a way, most tattoo artists crave more freedom because you really feel your audience being your customer so present in the room.

Doing something like [fine art] is liberating in that I can do whatever I want, and I don’t have to ask anyone’s permission. I think all artists crave as much freedom as possible. I mean, that’s the only thing worth anything.” 

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Art Basel mounts its seventh Hong Kong exposition next month, with 242 galleries filling the halls of the Convention and Exhibition Centre with modern and contemporary art from around the world. The Hong Kong show is one of three annual Art Basel extravaganzas, the others being the original, founded in 1970, in Basel, Switzerland, and Miami Beach, which premiered in 2002 after the September 11 attacks forced the organisers to postpone the North American launch by one year. The Hong Kong iteration is focused in particular on showcasing exceptional art from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.

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Of the 242 galleries chosen by the seven-person selection committee – including such art-world heavyweights as Massimo De Carlo, David Maupin of Lehmann Maupin, Bo Young Song of Kukje Gallery and Zhang Wei of Vitamin Creative Space – more than half have exhibition spaces in the region. That includes seven galleries dedicated to emerging or Asian artists moving into the main Galleries sector for the first time, with Hong Kong represented by Galerie du Monde and Tang Contemporary Art.

The host city is represented by a total of 25 galleries this year, while nine highly influential galleries from the United States and Europe make their Art Basel Hong Kong debut. Southeast Asia also enjoys a strong presence, with Richard Koh Fine Art presenting Thai artist Natee Utarit and Nova Contemporary showing works by Burmese artist Moe Satt, among many others.

In addition to the Galleries sector, with its extensive range of high-quality works from 196 of the world’s leading art galleries, the show features the Insights and Discoveries sectors as well as programmes dedicated to film, large-scale installations and panel discussions on art-world topics.

Insights, as the name suggests, offers an insightful look into Asian art history through works by important artists from the region. This year 21 galleries present one or two artists each, including Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery with works by New York-based Tishan Hsu, Shanghai’s Don Gallery with an exhibition by painter Li Shan and New Delhi’s Gallery Espace with 30 years of work by Zarina Hashmi.

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Discoveries, meanwhile, shifts the focus to emerging contemporary artists from around the world. Highlights of this year’s show, presented by 25 galleries, include South Korean artist Jong Oh, Los Angeles-based artist, writer and curator Aria Dean, and Czech artist Anna Hulačová, who is being presented by the first Czech exhibitor to join the Hong Kong show. Christian Andersen, Nova Contemporary and Tabula Rasa Gallery are among other first-time exhibitors.

Impossible to miss – by virtue of size and prominent positioning – is the Encounters sector, 12 institutional-scale installations placed along the four meridians that run through the two cavernous exhibition halls. The diverse pieces have been selected by curator Alexie Glass-Kantor under the theme “Still I Rise” – a call to action inspired by the Maya Angelou poem of the same name. The transcendent works range from a 10-metre-long replica of a Zeppelin by Lee Bul to an upside-down installation of a modern cityscape by Elmgreen & Dragset.

The final exhibition sector is Kabinett, a precisely curated set of projects returning for its third year. The 2019 line-up is still to be announced but is expected to feature a diverse range of media as well as artists both established and emerging.

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Also still to be announced are the Film and Conversations programmes, but visitors should be prepared for a variety of special screenings and dialogues surrounding the global contemporary art scene. Stephanie Bailey, an experienced art writer and editor, returns to curate Conversations for the fifth consecutive year while Li Zhenhua, founder and director of Laboratory Art Beijing, continues to oversee the always-exciting Film programme.

Visitors to this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong can also enjoy access to a wide range of local exhibitions and institutions, from the gallery scene as well as museums such as M+ Pavilion (showing Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint), Hong Kong Arts Centre (the fifth Collectors Contemporary Collaboration, among other exhibits) and the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (Unfolding: Fabric of Our Life).

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With a history stretching back nearly a millennium, Cantonese opera is a uniquely rich contributor to the cultural heritage of the region. This ancient art form is being given a new platform, thanks to the recent opening of the Xiqu Centre – the first major performing arts venue in the West Kowloon Cultural District – dedicated to showcasing the finest in Cantonese opera and other forms of traditional Chinese theatre arts.

But what you might not realise is the Xiqu Centre also provides a chance to combine appreciation of the art form’s best-known works with another of this region’s greatest treasures: its tea culture. In an environment that recreates the warm, welcoming atmosphere of Hong Kong’s early 20th century tea houses, visitors the Tea House Theatre can watch a programme of excerpts introducing a range of vocal and music styles, and accompanied by tea and dim sum.

The 90-minute programme is ideal for those who are new to Cantonese opera as well as for those who would like to know more about its range and history. It includes narration by an expert moderator, with both performance and narration in Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles. It is performed by the Xiqu Centre’s very own Tea House Rising Stars Troupe, which features a host of the city’s finest young opera talents including young musicians and actors. The troupe is led by the legendary Dr Law Kar-ying, who made his name in Cantonese opera before acting in numerous much-loved local movies, and received the Medal of Honour from the Hong Kong SAR government in 2012 for his services to Cantonese opera.

For those who want to explore the world of Cantonese opera further, the 60-minute Xiqu Centre Guided Tours, in Cantonese, Putonghua and English, offer the perfect chance to discover more about the architecture and design of the new venue, as well as about the culture and history of the art form. Tours take place every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11.30am, and Sunday at 5pm, and cost HK$100 or HK$50 with a HKID card. The Tea House Theatre performance, meanwhile, is available every Wednesday to Sunday at 7.30pm and also on Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm, priced at HK$318 and HK$368.

www.westkowloon.hk/en/teahouse

https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/whats-on/current-forthcoming/xiqu-centre-guided-tours/

This story is presented by the Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon.

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