{"id":53754,"date":"2023-03-24T12:04:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/no-rioters-hong-kong-megastore-sogo-self-censors-art-with-hidden-political-content"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:04:20","slug":"hong-kong-department-store-removes-artwork-with-hidden-political-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53754","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong department store removes artwork with hidden \u2018political content\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Amadon, whose work flashed up names from pro-democracy protests, says it had to be taken down \u2018to be a completed piece\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong department store took down a digital artwork that contained hidden references to jailed free-speech defenders, in an incident the artist says is evidence the of erosion of free speech by Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Amadon\u2019s No Rioters was put on display on a billboard at the huge Sogo Causeway Bay store as the city was promoting itself as a cultural hub following years of pandemic travel restrictions. Art Basel Hong Kong, a prominent art fair in Asia, began this week, alongside other art events.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/no-rioters-hong-kong-megastore-sogo-self-censors-art-with-hidden-political-content\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Amadon, whose work flashed up names from pro-democracy protests, says it had to be taken down \u2018to be a completed piece\u2019A Hong Kong department store took down a digital artwork that contained hidden references to jailed free-speech defenders, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,41,71,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53771,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53754\/revisions\/53771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}