Daniel Arsham's "Fictional Archeology", Video artist Yuan Goang-ming, South Ho & Ken Kitano's Umbrella Movement related exhibition, In the studio: musical "Singin' in the Rain"
Hong Kong's rents so high and land and room so much in demand, it would probably be easier for Hong Kong artists to work on miniatures or puppets rather than sculptures. Ho Siu-kee, whose sculptures often involve interaction with his own body, has take...
In this week’s show: private museums, the search for space in which to create, and an examination of the space inside our heads, as eleven Hong Kong artists take a walk inside their dreams. And we begin with those museums, a cultural commodity that we’...
The fragrant harbour that gave Hong Kong its name. It may not be so fragrant these days and it may also be giving way to more and more reclamation but the changes it has undergone are the subject of a recent local theatre production, “The Abandoned Har...
Apart from direct sales of their works or tickets to their performances, artists rely on support from private patrons, corporations, or governments to survive. For governments, art is far from a necessity, and the search for ongoing financial support c...
This week we’re bringing you the second of our whole programme specials devoted to the 56th Venice Biennale. In our earlier look at the biennale we focused on Asian artists, including Hong Kong’s representative, and some of the collateral events taking...
For many of Hong Kong’s arts and design students it’s graduation time, and that means time to show the fruits of their labours in their graduation exhibitions. For art lovers it’s an opportunity to get a preview of Hong Kong’s next wave of creative tal...
A duo of visual and conceptual artists: Leung Chi-wo and Sara Wong. They’ve been personal and creative partners for over two decades, collaborating at times, but also retaining their own individual artistic identities.
Initiated by Venice’s city council, the first “biennial national artistic exhibition” was held in 1895. 120 years later, and looking forward in time, the theme of the 56th International Art Exhibition at this year’s Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, ...
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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 ” .
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