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If it’s May, as any Francophile will know, it must be time for the annual Le French May Arts Festival. We’ll be bringing you highlights of the festival in coming weeks but today we’re starting with something that many consider a quintessential part of ...

Dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev had an extraordinary life. The Tatar-Russian dancer, born in the Soviet Union on a Trans-Siberian train, defected to the West in Paris in 1961. He was a cultural icon, widely regarded as one of the greatest dance...

Cooking has been transformed into an artistic practice to explore the social dimension of art for over half a century. One of the most recognised artists in the field is New York-based Thai artist, Rirkrit Tiravanija who, in 1990, cooked Pad Thai in a ...

A visual artist who likes to break down barriers in communication: Xu Bing is known for incorporating words and characters into his art to explore the role of language and text in human life. The Hong Kong Museum of Art is currently featuring a hybrid ...

Long before the compounds that make up modern pharmaceuticals were discovered and isolated, cultures around the world relied on the healing powers of herbs. They have long played a vital role in traditional Chinese medicine, and their curative properti...

Few artists have gone through as many changes in style as Pablo Picasso. Despite the frequent transformations in his work, he once said, “Variation does not mean evolution”. At M+ in West Kowloon, you can currently see, on loan from Musée National Pica...

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The theme of this year’s week-long Hong Kong International Literary Festival which opened at the beginning of this month was “Into the Future: Stories for Tomorrow”.

The festival included 68 events, featuring writers creating in a wide range of genres....

In part two of this week’s show, it’s time for a “Bedroom Party”, and in case you’re wondering what on earth we’re talking about, we’re introducing Lilong and Tommy. They named the band they formed five years ago “Bedroom Party” because they’d both sta...

The 17th March is Saint Patrick’s Day, which commemorates the death of Ireland’s foremost patron saint. It’s celebrated, officially or unofficially, everywhere Irish people have emigrated. On the show later, we’ll be discovering more about what’s happe...