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Final Weeks of Wesley Tongson at Asia Society Hong Kong: Tours, Piano Recital, Catalogue & More

Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink: The Art of Wesley Tongson /Jul 15 – Oct 11, 2026 /Piano Recital : Sunday, Oct 11, 4pm – 5pm /Miller Theater, The Imagined Pianist: Christina Petrowska Quilico / Chantal Miller GalleryAsia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice DriveAdmiraltyTuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm +852 2103 9511 asiasociety.org Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink: The Art of Wesley Tongson, the final installation of Asia Society Hong Kong Center’s Celebration of Ink exhibition series, runs through 11 October at ASHK’s Chantal Miller Gallery. Representing the first major institutional exhibition of Wesley Tongson (Tang Jiawei 唐家偉, 1957–2012) in his home city in over a decade, the show highlights his mastery of classical subjects and the innovative “ink play” techniques through which he transformed daily struggles into rich artistic visions of landscapes, expressive finger-painting, and transcendent splashed ink works. Upcoming programs include a lecture on post-’80s Hong Kong ink painting by academic experts from the Greater Bay Area (late September), and a performance of Alice Ping Yi Ho’s Pictures from an Imagined Exhibition, inspired by Tongson’s dynamic works, performed by celebrated Canadian pianist …

Gaylord Chan at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Gaylord Chan /Never End: The Art and Life of Gaylord Chan /Jun 19 – Sep 29, 2024 / Chantal Miller Gallery Asia Society Hong Kong Center9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong KongTuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pmLast Thursday of every month: 11am – 8pmClosed on MondayFree admission asiasociety.org.hk Widely respected and beloved as one of Hong Kong’s most original painters, Gaylord Chan (1925-2020) had a dynamic career that traversed cultural epochs and broke the boundaries of medium. The exhibition will celebrate Gaylord Chan’s artistic legacy with over 100 artworks alongside never seen before historical footage from the different stages of his life. The exhibition will be presented in four sections which examine Chan’s unique practice and creativity.  (I) “The Grammar of Painting” explores Chan’s role as an artist and educator. Centered on his “fifteen-word truth” on painting, this section features a selection of works spanning the 1960s to 2000s that explore the essential elements of the artist’s visual language and offer the audience ways to decipher his inventive brand of abstraction.  (II) “Glyphs of Innocence and Experience” focuses on …