The Works

It’s been a tough twelve months for Hong Kong’s education sector. Last year’s social unrest, followed by the January outbreak of Covid-19, forced universities and schools to stop physical classes and conduct as many as they can online. There is even un...

With much of the world’s population currently quarantining itself in an attempt to reduce the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many are finding the enforced confinement hard to take. But the arts have, in some ways, come to the rescue. Performers have ...

Much of the world has come to a standstill as the coronavirus pandemic has spread. Many countries have imposed states of emergency and nationwide lockdowns. Most recently, Europe and the United States have been hit particularly hard. Some heads of stat...

Artist Chow Chun-fai focuses on his own artistic creation, which has recently highlighted the protests in Hong Kong streets, he's also taking an active role in the development of the SAR’s art and cultural scene.

Joyce Cheung was classically trained a...

Comic writer and media artist Justin Wong Chiu-tat is known for his political comic strip in Hong Kong’s Ming Pao Daily. But he also does graphic design, animation and interactive art. His recently ended exhibition “Normal Life” depicts a life that’s f...

The prevalence of Global Positioning System and assorted map apps on our smart phones, in our cars, and so on, might seem to have made the simple physical map a thing of the past. But what if we were to tell you that a physical map, plus modern technol...

Last Wednesday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivered his annual Budget. Well there were goodies for some of us, not least in the form of a HK$10,000 handout, but as usual not a lot of attention was paid to art and culture. There were three paragraph...

The challenges posed by the coronavirus have affected us all. Many planned activities have been scuppered, and many industries badly affected. Arts and cultural practitioners are, theoretically, among the most creative and resilient groups of people. M...

As we reported last week, in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Hong Kong Art Festival, Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central have all decide to cancel events over the coming month. Last Friday, the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society also ...

In last week’s show we talked about the effect the current coronavirus outbreak is having on art and cultural events and looked at the threat it poses to many planned mega events in Hong Kong’s Arts Month of March. Last week, after a long period of unc...