The Works

Aardman Animations’ “Arthur Christmas” is a Santa Claus movie for a more knowing age, beginning with a little girl writing a letter to Santa in which she asks how he manages to give toys to 600 million children in one night. Even if he took only ten se...

Fans of German art and design should have been happy over the past couple of weeks. This year’s 9th Business of Design Week, which ended on Saturday, partnered with Germany, and placed special emphasis on the country’s art and design. And while it may ...

Finally this week, even people who haven’t heard, or paid attention to, any other classical pianist have quite likely heard of today's guest, Maksim. He was born in Croatia, took up piano lessons at nine, and at 28, in 2003 released “The Piano Player”,...

At the Upper Station photo gallery until 15th December there’s a look at nature from a quite different perspective. In his works Hisun Wong captures images of flowers and leaves, which he then enhances electronically. The exhibition’s called “Intimate ...

American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York, and died there in 1997. He’s particularly famous for his images during the 1960s based on comic books and advertising material. For some later works he also drew inspiration from tradit...

“The Adventures of Tintin” is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist Georges Remi under the pen name of Herge. It’s one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with more than 350 million copies of the books sold. The...

The artist’s life can be a hard life. You’ve probably heard of the cliche of the suffering artist. But for mainland artist Yang Zhichao, suffering, and particularly his own suffering, is indeed a part of many of his art pieces. Yang is known for his pe...

We finish this week's show with the work of Tilo Kaiser, a Frankfurt -born artist who currently lives in London. The exhibition “Poetry in Motion” is on show at the Sin Sin Fine Art gallery until the 2nd December.

To close the recent World Cultures Festival, Enchanting Arts of Asia, last weekend Britain-based dancer Akram Khan treated Hong Kong to the Asian premier of his solo dance “Desh”. In the dance he examines his relationship with the culture of his parent...

French photographer Gerard Rancinan regards himself as a “witness of the metamorphoses of humanity”. Through his photographs he wants to show how society is, and to draw connections between classic art and contemporary reality. Although Rancinan’s jour...