The Works

"Do not go gently into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Dylan Thomas’s poem is just one of many works in which artists have drawn inspiration from the night or used it as a metap...

In this week's episode, we are heading back in time to that massive flowering of science, art, and knowledge known as the Renaissance, and more particularly to the work of painter Sandro Botticelli. We do not often get to see major Renaissance works in...

For the younger generation of comic book readers, the idea of renting comics might be an alien concept. But before internet distribution and eBooks brought prices down and made them easier to get hold of, comic book fans had to go to shops to rent them...

With the social distancing measures in place and restrictions in performance venues, art groups and organisers have to diversify. Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s production about a school scandal, “Principle” original schedule in September has been cance...

Since Covid-19 first hit Hong Kong at the beginning of the year, we have been reporting on the difficulties and challenges art organisations and practitioners are facing as events and activities have had to be shut down. The pandemic has highlighted a ...

When we think about Chinese ink art, we usually associate it with the traditional paintings we see of landscape, figure or flowers and birds painting. And then later on, the contemporary ink movement that breaks new grounds of the art form. But in this...

The government’s Art Promotion Office frequently creates projects designed to connect art with the public. Their venues in Oil Street, North Point and the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre on Kennedy Road focus on the community and provide art training prog...

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected most areas of our lives for the worse, including education. Teachers have had to do their best to adapt teaching materials for online learning. Some students are finding it hard to concentrate at home or learn in onli...

As regular viewers will know, music and musicians are featured pretty much every week on The Works, apart from which I play the guitar and Ben plays the trombone. And musicians, like many other artists and craftspeople, can be very fussy about the tool...

Hello and welcome to a new series of The Works. We hope you all had an at least bearable summer despite the confinements and restrictions brought about by the coronavirus and other factors. In the arts world, even though many events are still on hold, ...