The Works

We’re beginning by continuing our trip to Taiwan. Last week, we introduced the first edition of Taipei Dangdai, a contemporary art fair that aims primarily to appeal to the Taiwanese market but that’s inevitably brought a lot of international attention...

We take a trip to Taiwan. Many people familiar with modern and contemporary art from Taiwan have come to know it from the Taipei Biennial, the precursors of which were two Taipei Fine Arts Museum exhibition projects held in alternating years from 1984 ...

Kung Hey Fat Choy! Hello and welcome to our Chinese New Year special.

For today’s show, we’ve been out and about to bring you traditions, handcrafts and programmes that are full of festive flavour. In part two, I’ll be talking to master Wong Nai-chung...

Photojournalist, author and educator Steve Raymer is known for his work with the National Geographic Magazine. His subjects have ranged from the global hunger crisis to the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and the Soviet occupation of Afgh...

Technology hasn’t just reshaped many aspects of our daily lives, it has also redefined and changed how art is made. Today’s artists may use an array of technological and scientific tools, including lasers, augmented reality, 3D printing, computer progr...

Stage and film art director and costume designer Tim Yip is known to most people for his work for the film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. On show at the Hong Kong Design Institute until the end of March is a large-scale solo exhibition of Yip’s work...

For many of us the past holiday season was a time to meet friends and families and sit down for a feast, but no matter how much we like eating I wonder how many of us reflected on how closely integrated food and individual cultures are. Given its long ...

Happy New Year! And welcome to the first edition of The Works for 2019! I’m Ben Pelletier. And I’m Ben Tse. Later in the show, helping us to ring in the new year, is pianist Wong Ka-jeng. He’ll be in our studio later to tell us about an upcoming recita...

Merry Christmas! Hello and welcome to our Christmas special! As usual at this time of year, we’re hoping to impart a little Christmas spirit with some live music.

Bringing us those seasonal tunes later are saxophonist Calvin Wong and the five-member F...

Later in tonight’s show we’re off to Argentina, in our minds at least, as local ensemble Café 852 takes us back to the cafes and ballrooms of Buenos Aires with a tango song from one of its best known proponents Carlos Gardel. Before the passion of the ...