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Internationally, along with Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi, and Yue Mingjun, Fang Lijun is one of the four best known Chinese contemporary artists. Part of the “Cynical Realism” group in the early 1990s, he first became known for his “bald headed” charac...

Much of the technology of art has existed for thousands of years, in music, painting and sculpture. But over the past couple of hundred years, new technologies like photography, video, and computer graphics, have evolved that artists of the past could...

It’s New Year’s Eve, a time when many of us look back on the past twelve months, The Works is no exception. In today’s show, which is being broadcast in in stereo, we’re featuring highlights of some of the best performances we saw and heard in our stud...

This week The Works and 藝坊星期天 join forces for a bilingual Christmas special, as our three presenters, Ben Pelletier, Ben Tse, and Billy Lee, introduce guests in our studio to help spread the Christmas spirit. The children of Music Kreation Kidz sing tw...

Marc Quinn is a British artist who, because his work first came to public attention in the early 1990s, has been labelled part of the group that art writers like to call the “Young British Artists. His works include a head made of his own frozen blood,...

Influenced by her background in biochemistry, Angela Su’s drawings resemble anatomical, botanical and scientific illustrations from the 18th and 19th century, or even older. Now showing at Exit Gallery, the works in the exhibition “In Berty We Trust” i...

Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s images, begin in his mind, in his imagination. The concepts of real and fictional, time, memory and the transience of life are prominent. He uses a large format camera to make long exposures, sometimes the lengt...

Organised by the Hong Kong Open Printshop, this year’s Graphic Art Fiesta has featured five main exhibitions, master classes and other education programmes. Now on display at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, “Collaborative Print-making” features works fr...

From February to May this year, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City featured the exhibition “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia”.

Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore...

Look for images of beautiful women in art, and among the most beautiful will be Sandro Botticelli’’s images of the Goddess Venus. Right now, you have the very rare chance to see one of the Renaissance master’s Venus paintings right here in Hong Kong. T...