John BATTEN
Reviews & Articles
Review: ‘Fragments of Curiosities’ at HART Haus, Hong Kong
John BATTEN
'GOING' - a photograph & Hong Kong's auction houses
John BATTEN
貝聿銘：人生如建築 I.M. Pei - Life is Architecture at M+ Hong Kong
John BATTEN
Bruce Nauman: An Artist's Artist 布魯斯‧瑙曼
John BATTEN
在港驟見貝聿銘的中銀大廈 Impressions of I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower seen in Hong Kong
John BATTEN
AI影像、合理性與情緒支配 AI Imagery, Plausibility & Emotional Manipulation
John BATTEN
短評《陳巧真：踱步》 Review: Chan Hau Chun ''Silent Sojourns''
John BATTEN
'Hong Kong's Central Reclamation Phase III'
John BATTEN
Swiss Photographer Rene Burri
John BATTEN
黃仁逵：《天一半地一半》 Wong Yankwai: Half(s) & Halves of...
John BATTEN
Review of Kwan Sheung Chi, ''Not Retrospective''
John BATTEN
M+ admission fees - why?
John BATTEN
另一個紀念花園 | Another Garden of Remembrance
John BATTEN
藝術家簡介: 黎仲民 | Artist Profile: Andio Lai
John BATTEN
藝術家簡介: 蔡鈺娟 | Artist Profile: Bouie Choi Yuk Kuen
John BATTEN
奇恥大辱 | The Ultimate Humiliation
John BATTEN
安定人心的祭儀和醫療護理 | Reassuring Rituals and Medical Care
John BATTEN
又順又大，對某些人而言……| Big and Easy, for Some
John BATTEN
大嶼山童心之旅 | A Childlike Trip to Lantau
John BATTEN
藝術家簡介：簡喬倩 | Artist Profile: Tobe Kan Kiu Sin
John BATTEN
疫情決策中的政治 | Politics amidst Covid-19 decision-making
John BATTEN
讓香港做香港 | Letting Hong Kong Be Hong Kong
John BATTEN
2019冠狀病毒影像，北角，2020年5月3日 | Covid-19 Portrait, North Point, 3 May 2020
John BATTEN
理性泛民領導的新時代？| A new era of rational pan-democrat leadership?
John BATTEN
繪畫/現在 | Painting Now
John BATTEN
我們現在何去何從……？ | Where Do We Go Now….?
John BATTEN
暫停與教育均有其利 | The benefits of pausing – and education
John BATTEN
香港流感不是夢境 | Hong Kong Flu Isn’t a Dream
John BATTEN
一週雜談 | Some thoughts on last week
John BATTEN
拿捏不錯的平衡 | A fairly good balance
John BATTEN
現金流危機 | The cash-flow crunch
John BATTEN
塔斯曼尼亞的工業噪音 | Tasmania’s industrial noise
John BATTEN
航班取消 | Flight cancellation
John BATTEN
政府決策，不如自救 | Self-help replacing government decision-making
John BATTEN
「現實政治」的課堂 | Lessons in Real Politics
John BATTEN
更多關於示威的二三事 | More protest encounters
John BATTEN
Shirley Tse at the Venice Biennale
John BATTEN
決策也轉風向？ | A Significant Shift in Decision-making?
John BATTEN
「靜雞雞」| Quietly (like a chicken)
John BATTEN
香港這個家 | Hong Kong as Home
John BATTEN
精神健康的計時炸彈 | A Mental Health Time-Bomb
John BATTEN
新的思維，缺一不可 | A New Mindset, Nothing Less
John BATTEN
英雄就在你我身邊 | Everyday Heroes
John BATTEN
和解中的各種契機 | The Opportunities of Reconciliation
John BATTEN
週二的構想 | Imagining Tuesdays
John BATTEN
熱血、暴力，還有聰明的示威者 | Passion, Violence & the Smart Protester
John BATTEN
發起人民的檢討 | Initiating a People’s Review
John BATTEN
Time for compassion
John BATTEN
七一傳統 | The 1st July Legacy
John BATTEN
關於啟發 | On being inspired
John BATTEN
問題出於人權 | Human rights is the issue
John BATTEN
從開幕盛況到藝術至上：舉世矚目的威尼斯雙年展 | Art Takes Centrestage After Venice Biennale Opening
John BATTEN
魅力不凡的威尼斯 | Magical Venice
John BATTEN
我們是那0.01% -責無旁貸 | We are the 0.01% - and responsible
John BATTEN
The Mills: A Textile Heritage Centre
John BATTEN
關於創意 | On being creative
John BATTEN
原則處處 | Principles everywhere
John BATTEN
墜落，卻非鴿子回京 | A fall, but the pigeons don’t return to Beijing
John BATTEN
戲曲中心的前路及前往西九龍文化區攻略 | The way ahead for the Xiqu Centre & (literally) getting to the West Kowloon Cultural District
John BATTEN
Despite demolition of studios, galleries the business of art continues
John BATTEN
規劃需要願景而非倒模 | Vision instead of ‘cookie-cutter’ planning
John BATTEN
美好的早晨 | Good night and good mornings
John BATTEN
大館需要更具透明度 | More Transparency Needed at Tai Kwun
John BATTEN
維梅爾帶來的兩次驚喜 | Two Surprises by Vermeer
John BATTEN
留得下的七十年代 | Preserving the 1970s
John BATTEN
印尼泗水兩個完美的晚上 | Two perfect nights in Surabaya, Indonesia
John BATTEN
創意對話 | Creative Conversations
John BATTEN
宇宙中兩種量度方法 | Two Measures of Our Universe
John BATTEN
八月瀑布 | August Waterfalls
John BATTEN
在太空船與有機大米之間的溶洞救援行動 | A Cave Rescue Amidst Spaceships & Organic Rice Cultivation
John BATTEN
寧靜的新年漫步，然後…… | A Quiet New Year Walk, Then…
John BATTEN
沒有實現的現代主義海濱夢 | A Failed Modernist Waterfront Dream
John BATTEN
「大館」開幕：呈現言論自由之地 | Tai Kwun Opens: A Place for Freedom of Expression
John BATTEN
收藏藝術的藝術 | The Art of Art Collecting
John BATTEN
奧利奧停戰 | An Oreo Truce
John BATTEN
駱家驄: 郵謎浪蕩 | Lok Ka-chung: Wandering in the Labyrinth of Stamps
John BATTEN
香港獨立藝術空間的緣起 | The Origins of Hong Kong’s Independent Art Spaces
John BATTEN
Crossing Hong Kong’s Harbour | 橫渡香港的海港
John BATTEN
（再次）守護舊城中環的文化遺產 | Protecting (again) Central’s Delicate Heritage
John BATTEN
‘Toy as Medium’ art exhibition explores fun and games
John BATTEN
Artist Paints Burning Bright Seascapes from Hong Kong Eyrie
John BATTEN
尖沙咀一夜 | One Night in Tsim Sha Tsui
John BATTEN
Shenzhen's MOCAPE: Potential Unfulfilled
John BATTEN
洋溢生命力的非洲 | Life-affirming Africa
John BATTEN
泰國的和解訊息 ∣ A Thai Reconciliation Message
John BATTEN
Hong Kong after the Umbrella Protests
John BATTEN
A Heritage Day Without Heritage Advocates
John BATTEN
照片意義 重新審視 ∣ Reassessing a Photograph
John BATTEN
Angela Su: The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers
John BATTEN
文化保育與不擇手段的慈善機構 ∣ Heritage and Unscrupulous Charities
John BATTEN
Tai Kwun's Artist Book Collection
John BATTEN
取締乏味的石屎高架道路 ∣ Replacing Barren Concrete Overpasses
John BATTEN
What’s caught our eye at Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central
John BATTEN
Hong Kong’s Art Year: Strong All-year Round
John BATTEN
希望與小奇蹟 ∣ Hope and Small Miracles
John BATTEN
除非毗鄰故宮文化博物館，否則一切往地下發展 ∣ Underground, Unless It’s Next to the Palace Museum
John BATTEN
「形流意動」：M+博物館設計藏品展 ∣ Shifting Objectives – Design from the M+ Collection
John BATTEN
活現檔案歷史 ∣ Bringing Alive Archival History
John BATTEN
Ad Lib – Recent Work of Konstantin Bessmertny
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The Status Quo Rules
John BATTEN
Konstantin Bessmertny: Ad Lib
John BATTEN
我知道我們已走了很遠，但……∣ I Know We’ve Come A Long Way, But…
John BATTEN
Ko Sin Tung & Stephanie Sin: Form Simultaneity
John BATTEN
An Literary Architectural Competition?
John BATTEN
Kurt Tong: Threads of Sisterhood
John BATTEN
「我們都（只是）互聯網美國人」？∣ “Are We All (Just) Internet Americans”?
John BATTEN
優秀的城市都是觸覺敏銳的城市 ∣ Great Cities are Sensitive Cities
John BATTEN
一輩子的「錯」？ ∣ Being 'Wrong' Forever?
John BATTEN
Wong Wai Yin: Without Trying
John BATTEN
Adrian Wong & Shane Aspegren's Cromniomnacy
John BATTEN
莎士比亞的靈感 ∣ Shakespeare's Inspiration
John BATTEN
大學門常開，商場拒客來 ∣ Open Universities and Closed Shopping Malls
John BATTEN
不要另一個元創方 ∣ Not Another PMQ
John BATTEN
The Interstitial: Alan Kwan and Kenny Wong
John BATTEN
Hong Kong Contemporary Photography
John BATTEN
Thomas Houseago: Psychedelic Brothers – Drawn Paintings
John BATTEN
谷底 ∣ Down and Down (a Hong Kong observation on suicide)
John BATTEN
Collapse at Tai Kwun/Demolition in Wong Chuk Hang
John BATTEN
A Pill to Calm Me Down: Hong Kong in the 1970s
John BATTEN
擬建藝發局辦公室再顯從上而下的決策 (Top-down Decision-Making for New Arts Office)
John BATTEN
非暴力態度！(A Non-violent Attitude!)
John BATTEN
Muzak, Ambient Music, John Cage and No Silence
John BATTEN
你我未來 循環再造 (Recycling Our Future)
John BATTEN
Xu Zhenbang in Hong Kong
John BATTEN
Tromarama - Indonesian art collective
John BATTEN
Architecture’s Challenge
John BATTEN
Jogya Biennial 2015
John BATTEN
Fung Ming Chip: Shu-Fa Sutra
John BATTEN
Bat Cave – Treasures of the day, creatures of the night
John BATTEN
The Future, Like History (an exhibition of 19 Hong Kong artists)
John BATTEN
Sound Art in Hong Kong
John BATTEN
Imagine there’s no country / Above us only our cities
John BATTEN
The Rise of the 'Emerging' Artist
John BATTEN
Umbrella protests one year later: South Ho & Ken Kitano
John BATTEN
Sonic Anchor #23 – Vinyl Collage / 聲音下寨 #23 – 黑膠拼貼
John BATTEN
Contemporary Spaces - getting the balance right (Allan Sekula's Fish Story, To Be Continued)
John BATTEN
拍攝愚昧 Photographing Stupidity
John BATTEN
Migration Season 移民季節
John BATTEN
「表現正常」的年輕人是改變的強大力量 / 人的莊園－周慶輝個展 (Youth’s ‘Normality’ a Potent Force for Change / Chou Chin-hui’s Animal Farm)
John BATTEN
Tsang Chui Mei: Some Landscapes
John BATTEN
Zhang Xiao: About My Hometown
John BATTEN
Interest in Hong Kong Photography Remains Low
John BATTEN
Days push off into nights - and Authority
John BATTEN
Jonathan Day: Postcards from the Road
John BATTEN
Art Basel Week 2015
John BATTEN
Oil Street 1998 and Non-profit Art Spaces Now
John BATTEN
YY9 Gallery: 10th Anniversary Exhibition
John BATTEN
Central Police Station: Hong Kong's Next Independent Art Space?
John BATTEN
Aida Makoto & Sophie Calle
John BATTEN
Unseen Existence: Dialogue with the Environment in Contemporary Art
John BATTEN
Undergraduate Graduation Exhibition 2014 at Hong Kong Baptist University's Academy of Visual Arts
John BATTEN
Ling Pui Sze & Stephen Eastaugh
John BATTEN
Hong Kong Umbrellas, Ferris Wheels, Korean Ghosts & Slogans
John BATTEN
Flags Flying Over Hong Kong
John BATTEN
Autonomy for Big (Hong Kong’s M+) and Small Art Spaces
John BATTEN
Tsang Kin-wah, Cheng Ran & Yang Yi-shiang - 'Forest of Illusions'
John BATTEN
Impermanence - Contemporary Tibetan Art
John BATTEN
Being an Art Collector
John BATTEN
Asia Art Archive: Mapping Asia
John BATTEN
Creativity Outside the Art Supermarket
John BATTEN
Ju Ming - Sculpting the Living World
John BATTEN
Antony Gormley - States and Conditions, Hong Kong
John BATTEN
Art Fair Philippines 2014
John BATTEN
The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012
John BATTEN
Atul Dodiya: Duplicator’s Dilemma
John BATTEN
Hanison Lau Hok-shing
John BATTEN
Painting On and On: Taciturn
John BATTEN
A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, Ghosts, Rebels, SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story
John BATTEN
Excuse me, where is the market?: Roy Ng Ting Ho, Wong Ka Wing, Vivian Ho, Wong Tin Yan, KACAMA
John BATTEN
Philippines’ Heritage & Art at the Bellas Artes Project
John BATTEN
Review: Kwan Kam Cheong; Michael Wolf; Ho Fan; Almond Chu
John BATTEN
Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over the Ocean
John BATTEN
Creative Forces: Kitty Ko Sin Tung
John BATTEN
'Renewed' does not always mean 'improved'
John BATTEN
Timing is everything (WKCD and Hong Kong Galleries) 時機定英雄
John BATTEN
West Kowloon - A Downsizing Now?
John BATTEN
Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
John BATTEN
Otto Li Tin Lun: Digital to Analogue via Pixels
John BATTEN
Hong Kong Eye in Hong Kong
John BATTEN
Review: Jim Lambie / Annie Wan Lai Kuen / Lai Chun Ling and Yu Guy Tse
John BATTEN
Shanghai Biennial 2012
John BATTEN
Industrial Buildings for ALL!
John BATTEN
Hong Kong Eye at Saatchi Gallery
John BATTEN
Rental United - As You Like It photographs & installation
John BATTEN
Hong Kong Visual Arts 2012 – a brief overview
John BATTEN
Creative Forces - Adrian Wong
John BATTEN
Anna Gleeson & Ha Wan Pao
John BATTEN
Stephen Wong Chun Hei’s Plein Air Paintings
John BATTEN
Lanwei - an essay for an exhibition by anothermountainman (Stanley Wong Ping Pui)
John BATTEN
Student Creative Activism and Money Don't Mix
John BATTEN
Horst Faas: Photographer & Photo Editor, 1933 - 2012
John BATTEN
Central Police Station
John BATTEN
Bloom and Blust 空穴來瘋
John BATTEN
Rental United’s (Stephanie Sin, Damon Tong, Timothy Zau) Performances
John BATTEN
Adrian Wong: Troglodyte See The Light
John BATTEN
A Carefully Sculptured Niche
John BATTEN
Hong Kong’s Art Scene in Ten Years’ Time
John BATTEN
Repeat: 1968/ 2001/ 2006
John BATTEN
Bangkok Smiles All Over Hong Kong
John BATTEN
At a Critical Juncture (關鍵時刻)
John BATTEN
Space and Art (in Hong Kong) (談香港公共空間與藝術實踐)
John BATTEN
The Sculptural Dimension - Contemporary Hong Kong Sculpture
John BATTEN
Down (The World Trade Center and Gretchen So's photographs)
John BATTEN
Sindy Wong - The Longest Ride
John BATTEN
Dustin Shum - Blocks
John BATTEN
Cracking the Sunflower Seed
John BATTEN
Looking Beyond China
John BATTEN
Hong Kong’s Grey-walled Art Spaces
John BATTEN
Anothermountainman: What’s Next 30x30 Creative Exhibition
John BATTEN
Gerard Henry - Interior Landscapes
John BATTEN
1+1: A Cross-Strait-Four-Regions Artistic Exchange Project
John BATTEN
Electron Landscape - Lam Yau-sum
John BATTEN
Norman de Brackinghe
John BATTEN
Ha Bik-chuen: From Common to Uncommon
John BATTEN
Building Simplicity
John BATTEN
Freedom to Think/Do
John BATTEN
Lee Kit: Watching Soaps (I can’t recall the day that I last heard from you)
John BATTEN
Lack of Articulation
John BATTEN
'WARM': A climate-specific exhibition by Ludwig
John BATTEN
3rd Guangzhou Photo Biennial: Sightings - Searching for the Truth
John BATTEN
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Conceptual Art Exhibition
John BATTEN
Feigned Innocence: We All Look
John BATTEN
Hong Kong’s Cultural District Saga
John BATTEN
Love Simply (Fotan Artists’ Open Studios)
John BATTEN
Futuramanila at Osage Kwun Tong
John BATTEN
Terminus at Para/Site Art Space
John BATTEN
West Kowloon II: Where Life, Heritage & Culture Meet
John BATTEN
Vivian Poon: Shifting
John BATTEN
Art Issues
讓香港做香港 | Letting Hong Kong Be Hong Kong
John BATTEN
繪畫/現在 | Painting Now
John BATTEN
Shirley Tse at the Venice Biennale
John BATTEN
決策也轉風向？ | A Significant Shift in Decision-making?
John BATTEN
「靜雞雞」| Quietly (like a chicken)
John BATTEN
香港這個家 | Hong Kong as Home
John BATTEN
精神健康的計時炸彈 | A Mental Health Time-Bomb
John BATTEN
新的思維，缺一不可 | A New Mindset, Nothing Less
John BATTEN
英雄就在你我身邊 | Everyday Heroes
John BATTEN
和解中的各種契機 | The Opportunities of Reconciliation
John BATTEN
週二的構想 | Imagining Tuesdays
John BATTEN
熱血、暴力，還有聰明的示威者 | Passion, Violence & the Smart Protester
John BATTEN
發起人民的檢討 | Initiating a People’s Review
John BATTEN
Time for compassion
John BATTEN
七一傳統 | The 1st July Legacy
John BATTEN
關於啟發 | On being inspired
John BATTEN
問題出於人權 | Human rights is the issue
John BATTEN
從開幕盛況到藝術至上：舉世矚目的威尼斯雙年展 | Art Takes Centrestage After Venice Biennale Opening
John BATTEN
魅力不凡的威尼斯 | Magical Venice
John BATTEN
原則處處 | Principles everywhere
John BATTEN
戲曲中心的前路及前往西九龍文化區攻略 | The way ahead for the Xiqu Centre & (literally) getting to the West Kowloon Cultural District
John BATTEN
美好的早晨 | Good night and good mornings
John BATTEN
收藏藝術的藝術 | The Art of Art Collecting
John BATTEN
Hong Kong after the Umbrella Protests
John BATTEN
Tai Kwun's Artist Book Collection
John BATTEN
What’s caught our eye at Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central
John BATTEN
Hong Kong’s Art Year: Strong All-year Round
John BATTEN
除非毗鄰故宮文化博物館，否則一切往地下發展 ∣ Underground, Unless It’s Next to the Palace Museum
John BATTEN
「形流意動」：M+博物館設計藏品展 ∣ Shifting Objectives – Design from the M+ Collection
John BATTEN
Obituary: Nigel Cameron 金馬倫 (14 March 1920 - 14 February 2017)
John BATTEN
莎士比亞的靈感 ∣ Shakespeare's Inspiration
John BATTEN
不要另一個元創方 ∣ Not Another PMQ
John BATTEN
非暴力態度！(A Non-violent Attitude!)
John BATTEN
你我未來 循環再造 (Recycling Our Future)
John BATTEN
Jogya Biennial 2015
John BATTEN
Umbrella protests one year later: South Ho & Ken Kitano
John BATTEN
Migration Season 移民季節
John BATTEN
Hong Kong’s fighting spirit
John BATTEN
Hong Kong Umbrellas, Ferris Wheels, Korean Ghosts & Slogans
John BATTEN
Autonomy for Big (Hong Kong’s M+) and Small Art Spaces
John BATTEN
Art Fair Philippines 2014
John BATTEN
The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012
John BATTEN
West Kowloon - A Downsizing Now?
John BATTEN
Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
John BATTEN
Shanghai Biennial 2012
John BATTEN
Freedom to Think/Do
John BATTEN
New/Alternative Art Space
更多關於示威的二三事 | More protest encounters
John BATTEN
The Mills: A Textile Heritage Centre
John BATTEN
大館需要更具透明度 | More Transparency Needed at Tai Kwun
John BATTEN
宇宙中兩種量度方法 | Two Measures of Our Universe
John BATTEN
八月瀑布 | August Waterfalls
John BATTEN
在太空船與有機大米之間的溶洞救援行動 | A Cave Rescue Amidst Spaceships & Organic Rice Cultivation
John BATTEN
「大館」開幕：呈現言論自由之地 | Tai Kwun Opens: A Place for Freedom of Expression
John BATTEN
駱家驄: 郵謎浪蕩 | Lok Ka-chung: Wandering in the Labyrinth of Stamps
John BATTEN
香港獨立藝術空間的緣起 | The Origins of Hong Kong’s Independent Art Spaces
John BATTEN
‘Toy as Medium’ art exhibition explores fun and games
John BATTEN
Artist Paints Burning Bright Seascapes from Hong Kong Eyrie
John BATTEN
Hong Kong after the Umbrella Protests
John BATTEN
Tai Kwun's Artist Book Collection
John BATTEN
Kurt Tong: Threads of Sisterhood
John BATTEN
一輩子的「錯」？ ∣ Being ''Wrong'' Forever?
John BATTEN
不要另一個元創方 ∣ Not Another PMQ
John BATTEN
Ko Sin Tung & Stephanie Sin: Form Simultaneity
John BATTEN
我知道我們已走了很遠，但……∣ I Know We’ve Come A Long Way, But…
John BATTEN
Collapse at Tai Kwun/Demolition in Wong Chuk Hang
John BATTEN
A Pill to Calm Me Down: Hong Kong in the 1970s
John BATTEN
Days push off into nights - and Authority
John BATTEN
Jonathan Day: Postcards from the Road
John BATTEN
Days push off into nights - an exhibition featuring nine artists
John BATTEN
Central Police Station: Hong Kong's Next Independent Art Space?
John BATTEN
Central Police Station
John BATTEN
Bloom and Blust 空穴來瘋
John BATTEN
Gavin Au: Still Sitting on the Wall
John BATTEN
Lack of Articulation
John BATTEN
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Conceptual Art Exhibition
John BATTEN