The Works

Arts Diary

"The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” was initially a novel, and is now a film, by Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller. It’s the story of the fiftyish Pippa, who is married to the semi-retired publisher Herb. Her friends consider her, as th...

Nepalese writer Ram Krishna Bantawa has lived in Hong Kong since 1997. He is known in his own country for his novels, lyrics, and poetry. His most recent novel, Shrill Mist, published in 2008, spans the period from Nepal’s first constitution in 1846 to...

What will we do if we manage to deplete all our natural habitats? Well we might have to remember them with the very materials we took away from them. That’s the idea behind “Memory of the Forest”, a group of animal sculptures made in a workshop led by ...

From Turkey we head to Denmark, and we’re going there in the company of one English playwright having fun with the work of probably the greatest English playwright of them all. From Thursday until Saturday, at the Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre, a gro...

Ai Weiwei is one of China’s leading contemporary artists, an architect, and a blogger. He’s also widely known outside China for his political activism, fighting for the rights of the victims in the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. Ai is being watched by mor...

Hong Kong’s first Turkish Film Festival is running at the Grand Cinema in Elements from this Thursday until next Monday.The ten feature films selected include Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Three Monkeys” which won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Fest...

In the first "Iron Man" movie we were told how Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey, lost his physical heart as he gained a spiritual heart. He also gained an Iron Man costume that turned him into the world’s greatest secret weapon. Well, at the end of ...

Performing in our studio are the English soul band “Mamas Gun”. They are big in Japan and just beginning to get the attention of the English press, despite the fact they have only ever visited Japan once.

“Fragments” at the 10 Chancery Lane Gallery brings under one roof the work of two artists, Hannah Bertram from Australia and Serge Clement from Canada. Hannah’s work cannot be collected, wrapped or delivered. It involves hours, if not days, painstaking...