The Works

Calvin Poon Yuen-leung is widely known for writing lyrics for Cantonese pop songs. He’s also a screen writer, film director and even football commentator. In an upcoming joint exhibition with childhood friend Stephen Yau, he’s presenting his lyrics in ...

Think of tango and you most likely think of Argentina. It’s the country that has given us the music of Astor Piazzolla, singer and songwriter Carlos Gardel, and dancers such as Ada Cornaro, Celia Blanco, and Juan Carlos Copes. But there’s a somewhat mo...

When you think about violin-making, if you do, you’re likely to think about craftsmen in Italy, particularly the Stradivari family who produced the famous Stradivarius violins and other string instruments. But not everyone can afford, or even necessari...

If you were near Fort Street in North Point last weekend, you might have seen a long queue on the street. It wasn’t for ice cream, cold drinks, or a bargain, but for the first solo exhibition by Spanish cartoonist Joan Cornella in Hong Kong. Joan is kn...

Photography, and an iconic photographer some of whose images you will almost certainly recognise even if you don’t know her name. She’s Annie Leibovitz. She rocketed to fame shooting rock stars and other celebrities during a decade-long relationship wi...

In 2009, the Antiquities and Monuments Office assessed 1,444 historic Hong Kong buildings. The experts divided them into three grades according to their heritage value. Up to April this year, 85 more buildings had been added. But the grading doesn’t al...

May 16th marks the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution. The campaign launched by Mao Zedong put China into a decade long chaos One of the main message of the campaign is to purge against counter-revolutionary schemers who conspired to overthrow...

We often think public art as large scale sculptures or murals, but new technology and new media allow it to take entirely contemporary forms. Last Wednesday, the Arts Development Council launched the “5th Large-Scale Public Media Art Exhibition: Human ...

The voter registration for this year’s Legislative Council General Election closed earlier this month. The election takes place once every four years, and it includes direct elections from five main geographical constituencies, as well as the functiona...

What exactly is performance art? It’s a form that tends to take performance away from theatre and auditoriums, and that often – although not always - takes the art out of the art gallery. But maybe the difficulty of defining it is the point: it challen...