The Works

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the renowned school of art and design that has laid the foundation for much art education ever since.

The Bauhaus, which in German means “building house”, was founded in Weimar on 1st April, 1919 b...

French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, who died on May 31st, 2010. She was born in Paris almost 100 years before. After the First World War, in 1919, the family moved to Choisy-le-Roi to set up a tapestry restoration business. During her childhood, L...

Painter Yeung Tong-lung was born in Fujian. He was brought to Hong Kong by his family at the tail end of the Cultural Revolution in 1973, when Yeung was 17. He’d liked drawing since he was a child, but it was not an aspiration that met with approval du...

Art lovers from Hong Kong, Asia, and indeed all around the world, are spoilt for choice during Art March – a month packed with art fairs, exhibitions, auctions, festivals and plenty of other exciting events. With so much work on show, there’s a danger ...

Theatre artist Geoff Sobelle says he’s dedicated to the “sublime ridiculous”. His stage works have been described as using “illusion, film and out-dated mechanics” to create poetic pieces that talk about humanity. At this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festiva...

We’re looking at two productions directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris. Staged by Bristol Old Vic, “Touching the Void” is the story of a 1985 attempt by Joe Simpson and Simon Yates to climb the 6,344-metre Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes that wen...

Robert Lepage is a playwright, film director, stage director and actor. He’s also the founder of the multidisciplinary company Ex Machina, conceived as a laboratory and incubator for performing arts, dance, opera, music, filmmaking, video art and multi...

Hello and welcome to The Works, I’m Ben Tse, on my own this week as Ben Pelletier is off on his travels. Later in the show, Kaki and Cup, the two musicians who make up the local acoustic-pop duo Winter Bagels, are here to play for us. But first, mixed ...

We’re going to start by bringing you the last of our new series of reports from Taiwan. The Taiwanese heavy metal band Chthonic made the news in a manner they may not have swished last December when Hong Kong denied their lead singer Freddy Lim’s entry...

We’re devoting part one to rock and pop music, and we’re beginning with the work of a photographer from the Netherlands known for his images of rock, pop, and jazz musicians. Gijsbert Hanekroot says the first shot of a musician he remembers taking was ...