The Works

This week we’re heading to Shenzhen to take a look at what’s been described as “the first outpost in Asia” of one of London’s great museums, the Victoria and Albert Museum. Also known as V&A the museum has been collaborating with the state-owned China ...

In our Christmas Special last week, we mentioned that some Eastern Orthodox churches and communities celebrate Christmas Day according to the Julian Calendar. Their December 25th is our January 7th. Russia is home to 39% of the world’s Orthodox Christi...

Merry Christmas! Hello and welcome to The Works and 藝坊星期天 Christmas Special, one of the rare times in the year you’ll see all three of our presenters together.

As usual for our Christmas specials, the whole show has a festive theme. Later, singer son...

Over the past few years, while the permanent M+ museum, and indeed the entire West Kowloon Cultural District, is being completed, the team has been creating programmes and activities to showcase the museum’s collections. On show at the M+ Pavilion unti...

Created by Belgian cartoonist, Georges Remi, more commonly known as Hergé, the boy adventurer Tintin is one of Europe’s most popular comic book characters.

The 24 albums of his adventures around the world have been published in more than a hundred la...

From October through to the middle of November the World Cultures Festival presented “Vibrant Africa” a series of events and performances that highlighted a wide range of arts from across the continent. The final performance of “Vibrant Africa” was the...

RTHK' s The Works focuses on Hong Kong's arts and cultural scene. 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,...

Ink painting, and more specifically the ink art of a distinguished female Chinese artist: Fang Zhaoling. Working in a traditionally male-dominated field, Fang was a progressive thinker in both her art and her life. Not only did she study under, and col...

Classical music fans were in for a double treat last weekend. For one thing, the acclaimed Berlin Philharmonic was in town for concerts on Friday and Saturday at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Also, on Saturday night, just across the harbour at the Cen...

Singer-songwriter, activist and Grammy award winner Angelique Kidjo was born and raised. And she draws her musical inspiration from a variety of sources: African traditions, American soul, funk, rap, jazz, samba, reggae, and salsa. In the late 1970s, s...