The Works

Spanish singer Lourdes Hernandez was born in Madrid in 1985. She sings in English rather than in Spanish. And doesn’t appear on stage or on record under her real name but as “Russian Red”. Russian Red is in Hong Kong this week, and performing tonight. ...

Director Andrew Niccol's new film “In Time” is about Earth, or an alternative version of it, not so far into the future, a world in which, on your 25th birthday, a time counter appears on your arm. You have one year left. If you don’t get more time on ...

Artist Lam Tung-pang likes to create imaginary landscapes made of objects he has found or discovered, painting, and three-dimensional plywood dioramas. 2011 marks his tenth year of working as a professional artist. His new exhibition at Hanart Square u...

As Rashid Rana’s work shows, technology often goes hand in hand with creativity. For some artists, new technology and inventions encourage new visions, and new forms of creativity. The City University’s new Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre opened las...

At the Hong Kong Arts Centre until November 18th you have the chance to see an exhibition by one of Pakistan’s most highly considered contemporary artists. He’s Rashid Rana. When you look at his work it pays to look closely. You may be surprised at wha...

The group Stomp, which combines percussion, movement and visual comedy, was created in Brighton, England in 1991. You may have seen them dancing in the trailer for Dolby Digital sound in local cinemas, just before the movie starts. They’ve appeared on ...

Since late 1989 Czech artist Michal Macku has been developing his own creative technique which he calls “Gellage”.It’s a method of separating the gelatin in the photographic film that allows him to multiply and fragment the image. Apart from transferri...

“Crazy, Stupid, Love” is directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa who wrote “Bad Santa” and directed “ I Love you Philip Morris”. If you know those two movies you may sense this is more than a formulaic romantic comedy. Steve Carell plays Cal, whose hi...

Like Gaylord Chan, American artist John Wesley is in his eighties. He was born in Los Angeles, and had a series of odd jobs before taking up painting at 22. Wesley didn’t have a formal art education. He says he just paints what interests him and leaves...

Hong Kong’s Gaylord Chan is now 86 and has been painting for decades. Recently though, for health reasons, he turned his hand to painting with a computer.Since first using MS Paint a decade ago, Gaylord has painted around 400 computer paintings. Runnin...