The Works

Not long after The Works went to air, internationally-celebrated cellist Steven Isserlis took to the stage to perform a recital at the Academy for Performing Arts with pianist Ya-fei Chuang. Steven is a wide-ranging musician who likes playing Baroque m...

Artist Zeng Fanzhi was born in Wuhan in 1964. He now lives and works in Beijing. His paintings are expressionistic in style, often capturing a feeling of psychological tension, or even violence, sometimes commenting subtly on the world around him. Unti...

Last week the Chinese government criticised the international art magazine ArtReview for voting a Chinese artist the most powerful person in the art world. It would seem a surprising move until you realise that the artist concerned was Ai Weiwei, who w...

You may remember seeing Taka Hirohama and the Saturday Night Jazz Orchestra on the Works more than a few times in the past. Well, now Taka has launched the “Youth Big Band Fest” to give a younger generation of performers a chance to show their love for...

Images of the human body are very much at the centre of the work of painter Li Xinping. Li likes to use the body as a starting point to examine elements of Western philosophy and Chinese culture. His new exhibition “Machine in the Body”, curated by Son...

The movie “Point Blank” gets off to a literally running start with a wounded man being chased through a building at night by two gun-wielding thugs. Before they can kill him though, he’s hit by a speeding motorbike and taken to hospital. Working in tha...

We talk to WKCD head Michael Lynch and Lars Nittve of M+ about the latest development of the West Kowloon Cultural District. In August of last year, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority revealed three new conceptual plans for the district.They ...

And we end today’s show, and this season, with a goodbye. But it’s not a goodbye from us, but from Dutch conductor Edo de Waart. It’s seven years since Edo became the artistic director and chief conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Now, h...

One movie showing right now, and in its second week at Hong Kong cinemas, brings to an end a cinematic saga that’s lasted ten years. It’s the Harry Potter series. And the final book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was so complicated it had to be...

Also, we take a step into the past at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Until 16th October, the museum’s Chinese Fine Art Gallery is featuring an exhibition of work by Guangdong painter Li Yanshan. Although, in the Guangdong art scene, Li was living in the ...