The Works

Last year we featured the “Hi! Houses” project, a public art project organised by the Art Promotion Office. It involved local artists creating site-specific works in four historical Hong Kong buildings. This year, the project, under a slightly differen...

Russia. Vasily Shukshin was born into a Siberian peasant background, but had become a much-loved name in the Soviet Union by the 1960s and early 1970s. One of Russian cinema’s leading figures, a film director and actor, he also wrote novels, plays, mov...

March is upon us, and as usual for art lovers it’s a pretty hectic month. Towards the end of the month, in visual arts, we’ll be welcoming Art Basel, Art Central, the Asia Contemporary Art Show, and an array of other events organised by galleries and m...

Local theatre production by Theatre Horizon, “Century-old Dreams of a Fishing Harbour” recounts the history of Hong Kong through the eyes of a rather unusual protagonist, maybe not too far removed from a character in the movie “The Shape of Water”. It’...

That’s a Happy Lunar New Year from the three of us for this first episode of The Works and 藝坊星期天 in the Year of the Dog.

Regular viewers will know that we have live music on our show pretty much every week. Today we’re featuring highlights from the d...

It’s St Valentine’s Day, and later in the programme we’ll be featuring a Russian cellist Alexander Kniazev who on Sunday performed a recital with pianist Colleen Lee that featured music with a decidedly Romantic twist, from composers Brahms, Shostakovi...

You can find representations of the naked human body in art all the way back to prehistoric times and the Venus of Willendorf. The body, often idealised, has been a source of inspiration and creative expression in all cultures. But many societies do se...

The Golden Globes, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and – coming soon – the Oscars. It’s definitely movie award season in the United States. Local cinemas are currently showing some of the Oscar-nominated films if you want to catch up. But if your taste run...

Hong Kong painter Chu Hing-wah focuses on people, their everyday lives, and the environment around them. For most of his working life he was a psychiatric nurse, a profession which he credits with allowing him to approach people with a sense of humilit...

Water has often been an issue for Hong Kong. We’ve had water rationing. We have to buy much of it from the mainland. We’ve built desalination plants that proved largely uneconomical to ensure we have enough to drink. And yet, at other times, thanks to ...