The Works

We travel to the “Land of Blue Skies”, Mongolia. In the 13th century Mongolia was, under Genghis Khan, the centre of the world’s largest land empire. More recently, it was for a while ruled by Qing Dynasty China, became a Russian satellite with a Commu...

Ink has a long history in Chinese traditional painting. It is used in calligraphy, and landscape and literati painting. Local ink artist Choi Hoi-ying merges calligraphy and Chinese traditions with paper wrapping, carving, collage and relief to create ...

When it comes to daily commute, Ben Pelletier tends to bomb around town on his motorbike to get to work. And If Ben Tse has the chance, walking is his first choice. But many Hongkongers, maybe living further from their workplaces, have to drive or take...

With the digital age, reading habits have changed. Some fear that the internet, social media and e-books might have made crafts like book-making and printing redundant. But there is still plenty of art in books that the digital age can’t render passé, ...

Performance venues for live music are in somewhat short supply in Hong Kong. Music lovers were hoping for a new one in the West Kowloon Cultural District, but that idea has been scotched. Most of the venues we have are known to be limited, hard to book...

The choice in the French presidential elections was not an easy one for many: Emmanuel Macron, widely seen as a friend to big banking and globalisation, or the anti-immigrant and isolationist rhetoric of Marine Le Pen. Despite a low turnout, Macron, th...

For Taiwanese artist Hsieh Teching, who has been called a “master” of performance art by fellow artist, Marina Abramovic, there is little, if any, separation, between art and life. His extended performance pieces have seen him live in a cage for a year...

The work of American artist Theaster Gates focuses on urban planning and environments, community, and urban regeneration. He’s sometimes described as a “social practice installation artist”. Some of his best known projects are based in the south side o...

March, otherwise known as Art month brought several international artists to Hong Kong. Few are as monumental or as spectacular in their work as Christo, known not only for, with his late wife and long-time creative collaborator Jeanne-Claude, wrapping...

3D movies, 360 degree cameras, virtual reality games … artists and scientists have been interested in immersing us in convincing recreations of reality for quite some time.

Way back in the 19th century there were already attempts to surround people wi...