The Works

Over the past month, we’ve visited Venice a few times to take a look at Hong Kong’s contribution and at the work in several national pavilions at the 58th Venice Biennale. These official exhibitions take over the city until November, but they are not t...

Prepare yourselves. Because later in the show we’ll be welcoming The Prophetic Horns to the studio. And in case you wonder what The Prophetic Horns is, or are, it’s a Paris-based combination of three supercharged wind instrumentalists and a DJ. They’ll...

The things we use and the things we make reflect who we are. And they have done so through history and prehistory. In 2010 the BBC debuted a series of 100 programmes called “A History of the World in 100 Objects” in collaboration with the British Museu...

The ripples of Hong Kong’s protests against the government’s proposed extradition bill, even spread as far as the Venice Biennale last week. The Hong Kong pavilion and its exhibition that we featured in last week’s show was closed last Wednesday in res...

The Works features news and reviews of visual and performing arts, design, literary and other “ works ” .

Added illumination comes from interviews with leading performers and producers, interspersed with updates on events affecting the development ...

In mainland China even the words “June 4th” are sensitive pretty much all the time. They are even more taboo every year as the date nears, and even more so this year as it’s the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Although the cand...

This year is the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. And, as every year, there’s already an information crackdown across mainland China on any possible references to the event in the media or on the internet. Activists in Beijing h...

Hon Chi-fun is one of Hong Kong’s most respected visual artists. His education began in a strict Confucian-style school that did not shy away from physical punishment, but that did introduce him to classical Chinese poems and calligraphy. Despite that ...

May brings, as every year, the Le French May Arts Festival. This year’s programme, which takes as its inspiration Victor Hugo’s “Life is a voyage”, is spread over two months and includes more than 120 events. We’ll be bringing you plenty from Le French...

Many who have lived in or visited Hong Kong in recent decades will remember the fantasy land of The Tiger Balm Garden, and particularly its sometimes-garish sculptural depictions of hell. It was built in 1935 by Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, the two Bur...