The Works

For art lovers, artists, and art dealers, March can be the most hectic time of the year as one of the world’s largest art fairs, Art Basel, comes to town. Art Basel’s success here, as well as the fact that Hong Kong is now apparently the world’s third ...

The Works has been featuring Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal for over a decade, particularly during their visits to Hong Kong to perform at the annual Arts Festival. Dance lovers in Hong Kong have been lucky enough to see “Iphigenia In Tauris”, “19...

Swiss-born Spanish singer, harpist, and composer, Arianna Savall’s parents, viol player, composer and conductor, Jordi Savall, and the late singer Montserrat Figueras, have long specialised in Early Music, particularly from Catalonia and the Middle Eas...

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 producer...

We’re about half way through the 45th annual Hong Kong Arts Festival, which opened just two weeks ago. And whatever your taste in performing arts, there’s been, and will be, plenty to see. You have 129 dance, music, or drama shows to choose from, featu...

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 producer...

Over the past year the Hong Kong Open Printshop has been adopting the theme of paper for its exhibitions. It’s rounding off that year of projects with a finale exhibition “The Legendary Pulp” in preparation for which three artists, from the United Stat...

Like many other hard working cities, Hong Kong would most likely find it hard to thrive as it does without the presence of female migrant workers from countries like the Philippines and Indonesia. The same story is repeated across much of the world. Ec...

There’s no doubt Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated cities, and our government often tells us that there’s a land shortage here. In his Policy Address this year Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying continued to insist on the idea of deve...

Kung Hey Fat Choy!

Welcome to the first edition of The Works in the Year of the Rooster. I am Ben Tse. And I’m Ben Pelletier. Just like the Rooster that gives the year its name, we’re going to start the Lunar New year by making some noise, and by lo...