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政府今（3日）刊憲，特首林鄭月娥根據《西九文化區管理局條例》第6條賦予的權力，再度委任全國政協常委唐英年擔任西九文化區管理局董事局主席，任期兩年，由今年10月1日至2023年9月30日。​

1 September, Art Basel clarified that anyone required to isolate will be able to remain in the same hotel to do so. The fair will also cover the cost of one PCR test at the start of the fair for non-EU exhibitors who have received the Astra Zeneca vaccine—they will not have to repeat the test if they test negative.​

In its fourth change of leadership in the last 12 years, the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles voted today to appoint Johanna Burton, currently the head of the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, as its new executive director. She will assume many of the managerial duties that Klaus Biesenbach has performed since he was named MOCA’s director in late 2018, and ...

A new government mandate will require all visitors to museums, art fairs, and galleries in New York City to provide proof of the coronavirus vaccination. The regulations go into effect on August 16, and will be enforced beginning on September 13. The city is among the first in the United States to undertake such a measure.​

The composer and theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber is showing some of his Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the heart of London’s theatreland. A series of eight contemporary works by the US artist Maria Kreyn depicting Shakespearian scenes are also on show at the 358-year-old venue, which has undergone a two-year, £60m renovation funded by Lloyd Webber.​

政府因應《港區國安法》生效，提出修訂《電影檢查條例》。浸大傳理及電影學院副教授吳國坤在一個電台節目認為，今次修例未有用到「危害」字眼，而採用「不利於」的字眼，是「加辣」的說法，令違反國安法的定義更加廣泛和「曖昧」，紅線變得模糊，或造成寒蟬效應。​

【101報道】香港的藝術文化界近月間迎來連番批評及衝擊後，藝發局4名大會代表突提出請辭，當中更涉及3名民選代表即視覺藝術的陳錦成、音樂的周博賢及戲劇的李俊亮，彼此請辭的關注點稍有不同，但陳錦成直言「擔憂人身安全問題」。

A certain degree of magical thinking surrounds the non-fungible token, or NFT. The community involved in the NFT-buying frenzy of early 2021 believed that the blockchain technology used to make NFTs instilled them with infallible benefits. NFTs were supposed to be a tamper-proof ledger that authenticated and defined original digital works, which could offer artists royalties as the work was traded ...

As the art market continues to pivot to the East, Christie’s announced today it will open a vast new, state-of-the-art Hong Kong headquarters in 2024 where it will launch year-round auctions. The move, to the Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson, comes as Asian spending topped $1bn in the first half of 2021, accounting for a record 39% of all sales. Though the shift to Asia was in ...

The UK is eroding its global reputation for conserving its “unparalleled” historic assets, culture bodies have warned, with Stonehenge expected to be next in line to lose its coveted World Heritage status after Liverpool.​