The Works

A few weeks ago, we mentioned on the show that 2024 has been celebrated as the year of Czech music. It’s been celebrated by an array of concerts and events, featuring not only classical music but other musical genres. Later in today’s programme, we’re ...

For more than two decades, the Asia Art Archive has been building, collecting, creating and sharing materials on the recent history of art in Asia. Many of its resources are free for public access. One of its recent projects introduced the archival co...

Japanese Zen monk Kanho Yakushiji is known for taking Zen-inspired music to a worldwide audience. His music videos have earned over 50 million views. He was in Hong Kong for a one-night concert late last month as part of an Asia tour. We went to speak ...

Tang Kwong-san was born in Guangzhou in 1992. His father brought him to live in Hong Kong when he was five years old. Five years later, his mother joined them.

Today that childhood separation from his mother and the experience of uprootedness and disl...

Later on this week’s show, a trip to the Baltic region for a sample of “Polish Impressions”. Taking us on that musical journey is the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra founded in Szczecin, Poland in 2008. But before venturing to Central Europe, we’re heading s...

We have art for the eyes in painting and sculpture, we have art for the ears in music, but unless you are a master perfumier, you are not likely to be particularly aware of the complexities or potentials of art for the nose. In an ongoing exhibition a...

The imaginative world of Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei, known for dressing the rich and famous, royalty and the political elite. On show at M+ is a collection of garments designed by her that embody both Chinese and Western influences. You may even ...

Chow Chun-fai is recognised by many for his works that combine movie references and scenes and events from Hong Kong life. His latest exhibition at Tang Contemporary Art draws on a collection of photographic images that he’s collected over the past two...

At 32, singer-saxophonist-songwriter-composer Grace Kelly has released 15 acclaimed albums, performed at the Hollywood Bowl, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as a member of the house band, and had headlined sold-out concerts before reachi...

The realistic and meticulous technique of traditional Chinese gongbi painting dates back about 2,000 years. But the style that’s been with us since the Han dynasty is still practiced by many, including Hong Kong painter, Jacky Tao.

"Floating World" i...