Business in Conflict

hile international media outlets are reporting the domino damages made during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, now entering their fifth month, local business owners are focused on the bad news at hand: vacant hotels, empty restaurants, and shopper-less shops. While a number of the city’s homegrown galleries—namely those committed to propping up young, primary-market artists—have issued very few invoices since June, Sotheby’s Hong Kong autumn auctions, held on the October weekend of some of the most violent clashes, illustrated how the