The Works

Founded in 1965, the Department of Music of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has been nurturing diverse music talents ever since, and celebrated its 55th anniversary last year. However, because of a delay, the gala organised by the alumni will be he...

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended many performing opportunities for artists, but six Hong Kong senior form students decided that nothing would stop them from making music. Last summer, they formed a new orchestra, The Hong Kong Youth Philharmonia, with...

Over the years, this piano has been played by some of the world’s best soloists, and in a variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz, rock and pop.

We’ll begin our Summer Music Series this week with Chiyan Wong and the prelude from Mendelsso...

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended our collective behaviour in terms of the ways in which we live, learn, work, and interact with one another. Many companies are now even considering whether working from home could be the permanent future of work. Crea...

Although dancer and choreographer William Forsythe was trained in classical ballet, much of his work deconstructs the traditional form. He has been described as having reinvented the process of choreography and the teaching of dance. He has brought oth...

Last week, we featured works by this year’s graduates from the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Fine Art department. The Chinese title of their exhibition, which focused on the theme of not taking things for granted was drawn from a popular party food...

Around this time every year a fresh crop of graduating university art students showcases its work in graduation shows. Those exhibitions provide a good opportunity to see the talent and the vision of Hong Kong’s newest generation of artists. This week,...

It is only two years since Tang Kwong-san received his fine arts degree, but he has already made a name for himself as an emerging young artist for works that explore themes ofhistory, family, displacement, and identity. Among the elements included in ...

Home to more than 120,000 works from the 20th and 21st centuries, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe.

Now some of that art is here in Hong Kong. As part of The French May Arts Festival, the...

If you are technically inclined, or even if you are just someone looking for new ways to invest or make money, you have probably heard about cryptocurrency and its digital ledger, blockchain. There are many cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin and Ethereum are pr...