Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK)

Located in Admiralty, in the heart of Hong Kong’s central business district, the Asia Society Hong Kong Center is an arts, culture and intellectual hub. It is part of the non-governmental Asia Society organization that was founded by the American businessman John D Rockefeller III in 1956 to promote understanding and partnerships between Asia and the United States. Of the Society’s 14 centers, Hong Kong — founded in 1990 by local community leaders — was the first located outside the US, and is among the most influential sites worldwide. The ASHKC regularly hosts exhibitions, performances, films and lectures that present an informed engagement with Asian history, society, politics, economics, culture and the arts. Since 2012, the center has occupied a beautifully renovated heritage building overlooking Victoria Harbour, formerly a British military explosives magazine. Its exterior and grounds feature outdoor sculptures by Zhan Wang, Antony Gormley and, most notably, a monumental slanted Buddha head by Zhang Huan.

_{Photo: Zhang Huan, "Long Island Buddha," 2010-11}