The Works

This week, we look at two female Chinese artists whose work has its roots in very different times and backgrounds. Born in 1895, Pan Yuliang became known as the first woman in China to paint in the Western style. Her works and their style were sometime...

This week’s show is going to be of special interest to jazz lovers. In part two, the formerly Hong Kong-based Swedish bassist Rickard Malmsten is back in town and in our studio. This time he’s brought vocalist Vivian Buczek with him to pay tribute to t...

The theme of the 29th annual Hong Kong Book Fair, which started last Wednesday, is “Romance Literature”, but you’d better not write about sex too explicitly, maybe even more so if you’re a Japanese author on record as having sided with Hong Kong’s prot...

Hello and welcome to The Works. I’m Ben Tse, on my own today as Ben Pelletier is on his travels.

On earlier episodes of The Works we’ve already featured the revitalisation of the former Nam Fung Textiles mills in Tsuen Wan as an arts and culture spa...

Modern day China is the backdrop for the political thriller, “Song of Grief”, by local theatre company, Cinematic Theatre. It’s the story of what happens when a man with a knife storms into an elite primary school and attacks children. It explores the ...

Two weeks ago we took an early look at the newly-opened Tai Kwun, the former police station, court and prison compound that’s now taken on a new life as an art and heritage centre. The space now offers exhibitions, theatre, dance, film, music and lunch...

There’s a strong emphasis on local flavour in the second part of our show today. First, we’ll be looking at Hong Kong’s iconic neon signage as reflected in the work of the Ethiopia-born artist, Awol Erizku. And we’ll have local music, as the indie band...

We’re heading to one of the largest heritage revitalisation projects that’s ever been undertaken in Hong Kong. The long-awaited and much-anticipated former police headquarters compound has now been turned into the Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts....

"Cabinets of Curiosities”, also known as “Cabinets of Wonder” or “wonder-rooms” are encyclopaedic collections of objects, mostly from the natural world. They represent early attempts to collect and categorise objects as natural history, geology, ethnog...

In today’s show: two graduation exhibitions, one from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the other from Hong Kong Baptist University. Every year, a new crop of young artists graduates. It’s never easy to make a living and a reputation as an artist...