The Art Angle Podcast: What Do the Protests in Hong Kong Mean for Art?

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delves into the places where the art world meets the real world,
bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew
Goldstein every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in
museums, the art market, and much more with input from our own
writers and editors as well as artists, curators, and other top
experts in the field.

Above and beyond its
well-established status as a global financial center, Hong Kong has
spent the 21st century rapidly transforming into an international
nexus for the art market: welcoming to both Eastern and Western
collectors, appealing to institutions and artists alike for its
vibrant economy and cosmopolitan character, and stabilized by its
unique embrace of democratic values just a stone’s throw from
state-dominated mainland China.

But since March 2019, Hong Kong has
been rocked off its axis by
ongoing and increasingly violent political protests, all sparked by
what the demonstrators read as aggressive moves by Xi Jinping and
his agents to accelerate the so-called “handover” of the former
British colony to Chinese control several years earlier than
scheduled. With free speech and free governance hanging in the
balance, art and journalism have become pivotal forces in the
battle for Hong Kong’s future.

In this episode of the Art
Angle, Artnet News contributor Vivienne Chow—a Hong Kong
native—gives a moving firsthand account of what it’s like to cover these volatile
events from the front lines, where artists fit into the
protests, and how the experience has challenged her perception
about nothing less than the meaning and importance of art. And all
of this while she simultaneously has to process how her home
morphed into a place she could not
have imagined only a few years earlier, and whether Hong Kong or
its art scene will ever be the same.

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