The Works

And in our studio we have a guest who will, this weekend, be performing in a concert called “The Fusion” with the Chung Brothers. He's local guitarist Jacky Lau, who began as a classical guitarist, but has now developed a finger-picking style with whic...

In our Arts Diary this week, Fabrik Contemporary Art is presenting the first solo exhibition of 21 sculptural works by Manila-born artist Daniel dela Cruz until January .21st. The show’s called “Ms.Interpretation” and in it Daniel takes a lighthearted ...

After premiering at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2010, Frederic Mao’s “The Liaisons”, which merges Cantonese Opera with contemporary romance, then went on to represent Hong Kong at the Shanghai Expo. It’s also been performed in Beijing, Shanghai and ...

The movie “Sarah’s Key” is set in two time periods. In the past, during the Second World War, it’s about the collaborationist Vichy government in France doing the Nazis’ dirty work and rounding up the people they had identified as Jews, including the t...

Clockenflap is a two-day festival of art and music that took place last weekend on the West Kowloon Promenade. It was a little cold out there, but despite that, thousands of music lovers turned out to listen to dozens of performers from Hong Kong and o...

And we end The Works this week with the art of Japanese painter Saori Kanda. Saori’s known not only for her paintings themselves, but also for giving live painting performances, often accompanied by live music. In November, Saori gave a live painting p...

There’s another chance to see the work of a German artist at the Art Statements gallery in Aberdeen until 28th January. He’s Stephan Balkenhol. While many artists are no longer interested in making sculptures of human figures, he continues to do so. An...

Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design (HKAoD) is a non-profit organisation and registered charity founded in 2006. Each year, at around the same time as the Design Centre organises the Business of Design Week, the organisation arranges DETOUR, which is curre...