Calligraphy Rhapsody, a retrospective exhibition of the French oil painter Georges Mathieu, who died in 2012.
Since its inception last autumn, the sprawling, 105,000 sq ft cultural hotspot has featured work by artists including Mary Weatherford, Yayoi Kusama and Chris Huen Sin-kan.
The exhibition was co-presented by Adrian Cheng, founder of the K11 Group and K11 Art Foundation, and Alexandre Giorgini, consul general of France in Hong Kong and Macau, as part of a series of arts programmes to foster cross-cultural dialogue. Headlining the programme was
Calligraphy Rhapsody, curated by Catherine Kwai, founder of the Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery.
The retrospective spanned Mathieu’s career from the 1950s to the 1990s, bringing together works loaned by private collectors from around the world. Mathieu’s pieces are known to dwarf viewers, but his painting Remembering the
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The former BBC director-general Lord Hall has resigned as Chairman of the National Gallery following an inquiry into Martin Bashir’s manipulated 1996 Panorama interview with Princess Diana.
Lord Hall was the director of BBC news when Bashir used false records knocked up by a graphic designer to convince Earl Spencer to introduce Diana to the journalist. The Princess at the time was highly vulnerable due to the collapse of her marriage to The Prince of Wales. The bogus photocopies of records showed bank payment made to staff accused of leaking information to the national press, mainly the now-defunct News Of The World.