Image: Jaki-ed weaving workshop, Majuro, Marshall Islands, September 2017. (see Helen Grace's Asia-Pacific Triennial article below)

Welcome to the Hong Kong art critics' October newsletter!

You can read all our new articles here. For all other links please scroll down.

In Hong Kong art news, the Asia Art Archive has its yearly fundraising auction, with contemporary art on offer, including work by Yu Peng (Taiwan), Chan Ting (Hong Kong), Ruth Asawa (USA), Qiu Anxiong (China) and others.

Opened 20 years ago in Hong Kong's vibrant Kwun Tong industrial area, Osage Gallery has regularly promoted new technology, contemporary Chinese art and art from Southeast Asia. The gallery's latest exhibition, Stemflow: South by Southeast 莖流: 東南偏南, curated by Patrick Flores (National Gallery Singapore) & Reuben Keehan (Queensland Art Gallery), will be its last major exhibition before the gallery closes permanently in early 2025. It will be missed. 

New reviews and articles on the AICAHK website include a video of curator Oscar Ho talking about seminal exhibitions he curated in 1997 and 1998 on Hong Kong's history and about the mythical Lo Ting. Phoebe Man adds English text to her article discussing a drawing project about sexual abuse. John Batten writes about Hong Kong's fragile social climate when I.M. Pei''s Bank of China Tower was announced to be built in 1982; and Chinese text is added to his review of the recent Bruce Nauman exhibition at Tai Kwun.

Scroll down for links to all articles - including flashback articles still topical today

Enjoy!

John Batten

Hong Kong art critic

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歡迎閱讀十月號AICAHK通訊。

你可以在這裏找到我們所有最新藝評。其他相關文章連結你可以往下捲動找到。

香港近期的藝術新聞有亞洲藝術文獻庫舉辦的年度籌款拍賣會。拍賣的當代藝術作品包括于彭（台灣）、陳婷（香港）、Ruth Asawa （美國）、邱岸雄（中國）等人的作品。

奧沙畫廊在二十年前充滿活力的觀塘開幕，他們一直專注新科技、中國當代藝術及東南亞藝術。他們最新的展覽《莖流：東南偏南》由Patrick Flores（新加坡國家美術館）和Reuben Keehan（昆士蘭美術館）擔任策展人。這將會是奧沙在二零二五年關閉前最後一場重要的展覽——我們會想念奧沙。

最新的評論和文章現已刊登在AICAHK網站上，同時我們上載了一段與策展人何慶基訪問的影片。他談及到在九七至九八年間他策劃的展覽所呈現的香港歷史和神話。文晶瑩為一篇討論性暴力關注創作計劃的文章翻譯了英文版。約翰伯德則寫了篇關於一九八二年貝聿銘興建中國銀行大廈時香港脆弱的社會氣侯。同時他一篇有關大館布魯斯．瑙曼個展的評論亦增加了中文翻譯。

下面有其他文章的連結——包括現在回顧仍會覺得不過時的議題！

希望你喜歡這期通訊！

約翰百德

香港藝評人

LATEST REVIEWS 最新評論

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Oscar Ho's 2011 article about running a university course for Hong Kong "cultural gatekeepers" is still relevant - we need "dignity and honesty" in cultural decision-making.

何慶基在二零一一年的文章提到香港的大學課程如何要做到「文化把關人」。一個到現時仍需要關注的議題——尊嚴和誠實。

''Cultural Gatekeepers’《文化把關人》

2.

The 11th edition of the Asia-Pacific Triennial opens on 30 November 2024 at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia and Helen Grace's 2018 article is a reminder of the importance of this large survey of regional art: 

第十一屆亞太當代藝術三年展將於今年十一月三十日在澳洲昆士蘭美術館開幕。Helen Grace一篇在二零一八年發表的文章提醒了我們這場大型地域性藝術展的重要性：

''What is contemporary art? Asia Pacific Triennial...''

3.

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Korean writer Han Kang... John Batten reflects on reading ''The Vegetarian'' in 2016:

二零二四年諾貝爾文學獎得主韓國作家韓江... 約翰伯德在二零一六年撰寫了一篇有關《素食者》的反思：

''Down & Down (A Hong Kong Observation on Suicide)'' 谷底