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2013 - Issue 3 - May/June

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ART FULL IF YOU GO… RIGHT: Dollar Sign by Andy Warhol, 1981. BELOW: Rapunzel by Jennifer Steinkamp, 2010. continued from page 80 presented by Asia Art Archive. Widely regarded as the most important collection of source material on the recent history of art in Asia, Asia Art Archive has grown from a single bookshelf in 2000 to a trove of more than 35,000 records with thousands of physical and digital items. And the government is getting in on the art act, too, by celebrating the opening of its new —MAGNUS RENFREW Artspace @ Oil Street, a 1908 heritage building that has been converted into space for working artists, curators, and the public. Not surprisingly, Art Basel in Hong Kong has proved attractive to corporate sponsors looking for a foothold in this fast-growing, significant region. Deutsche Bank has signed on as lead partner, joining associate sponsors such as Davidoff, Audemars Piguet, and Absolut Art Bureau, all of which also support the shows in Switzerland and Miami Beach. In fact, many people have compared today's Hong Kong art market to the one in Miami Beach 10 years ago. "The market is in a relatively early stage of development here, much like the atmosphere in Miami when we opened there," Renfrew says. "We want to be part of the cultural surge in this dynamic city, and the show provides the perfect global platform for that." artbasel.com V "The market is in a relatively early stage of development in Hong Kong, much like the atmosphere in Miami 10 years ago." "We are buying Asian art like you would not believe!" says designer and architect Todd-Avery Lenahan, who is working on the Wynn Cotai resort in Macau. "Everything that we source or have made for us is to honor the special culture and history of the region. We want to be patrons of Asian art." At the show: Lenahan suggests that attendees from Vegas first stop by the booths of the show's two Los Angeles–based galleries, the venerable Blum & Poe and the cuttingedge 1301PE. Also exciting, he says, will be the 47 galleries from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region showing work Todd-Avery Lenahan, seen in his Las Vegas in a new sector called Insights, office, has plenty of dedicated to the contextual and tips for Art Basel in Hong Kong attendees. thematic presentation of important Asian artists over the last 100 years. Lenahan also recommends paying special attention to work in the Encounters sector, selected and organized by celebrated Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa. Local galleries: "I'm currently working with Gagosian Gallery in LA, which enthusiastically says that Hong Kong is as much a dynamic market for Western galleries to do business with as LA, London, and New York," Lenahan says. He adds that a trip through at least a few of the dozens of new international galleries, several in the historic Pedder Building, should be at the top of every showgoer's list. For homegrown art, be sure to check out the gallery Osage. Local institutions: The Asia Society Hong Kong Center, located in a (huge) former British Army explosives compound, and the ambitious Para Site, a (tiny) hip nonprofit dedicated to contemporary art, will be popular destinations. Also don't miss Hong Kong's largest contemporary arts project to date, at the West Kowloon Cultural District, especially its numerous performing-arts facilities (and, opening in 2017, M+, its new museum of 20th- and 21st-century art). Finally, stop into Lenahan's favorite Hong Kong haunt, designer Sir David Tang's legendary China Club. The retro-chic Art Deco restaurant and club in the old Bank of China building is decorated top-to-bottom with blue-chip art. IMAGES COURTESY OF DOMINIQUE LÉVY GALLERY, © 2013 THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC./ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK (DOLLAR SIGN); KISHIO SUGA AND BLUM & POE, LOS ANGELES/TOKYO (CONCEALED); PHOTOGRAPHY BY LEILA NAVIDI (LENAHAN) Las Vegan Todd-Avery Lenahan lists his must-see stops for first-timers to the Hong Kong art scene. Concealed in Penetrating Lights by Kishio Suga, 2008. 82 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 080-082_V_SC_ArtFull_MAY/JUNE_13.indd 82 4/19/13 11:27 AM

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