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Just days before Hong Kong elects its new leader, Art Basel Hong Kong opened to the public on Thursday and continues through Saturday. Situated along the northern waterfront of Hong Kong Island and flanked on one side by a major construction site, the fair takes place at the Hong Kong Convention Center in the neighborhood known as Wan Chai. The average temperature has hovered around 65 degrees, and though the Asian installment of Art Basel generally feels less chaotic than the others, tickets sold out on the first public day of the fair. Read an ARTnews report from the beginning of the fair here. Below, take a look around the show and a few concurrent events.
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Artist Kingsley Ng boarding one of the trams he transformed into a moving camera obscura for his piece Twenty-Five Minutes Older.
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Works by Shirazeh Houshiary at the Lisson Gallery booth.
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Michael Govan and artist John Gerrard with his work at the Thomas Dane Gallery booth.
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A fairgoer with Michael Parekowhai's Putto, 2015-16, presented in the Encounters section of the fair.
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Luc Tuymans and David Zwirner hanging out before the fair opened to the public. In the background, a construction site situated outside of the convention center where Art Basel is held.
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Gonkar Gyatso, Family Album, 2016.
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Works by Xavier Veilhan at the Nara Roesler booth.
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A fairgoer taking a close-up of Shen Shaomin's Summit, 2009-10, presented in the Encounters section of the fair.
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A bar cart.
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Kimsooja, Deductive Object, 2016, presented by Kukje Gallery.
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Shi Guorui talking about the camera obscura process used on his piece To See Hong Kong Island from Kowloon 15-16 July 2016 at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery.
Hu Qingyan, Go in one year and out the other, 2017.
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Liu Wei, Library V-I, 2008-2015, at Lehmann Maupin.
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Kader Attia, Thirty Tee-Shirts Hallal, Art Basel Miami, 2004.
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Patricia Piccinini, The Bond, 2016, presented by Tolarno Galleries.
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Blair Thurman, Perfect Foil, 2016.
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Art Basel Hong Kong.
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Takashi Murakami with a scale model of his upcoming show at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Works by Wang Jianwei at Long March Space.
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Jing Kewen, Dream2008.No.8, 2004, presented by Beijing's Magician Space.
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Pio Abad, Not a Shield, but a Weapon, 2016.
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