In our Arts Diary this week, for more than ten years, artist Emily Cheng has been looking at paintings by other people, often focusing on elements that aren’t so important in those paintings and making them the centre of her own. In an exhibition curre...
30 artists from different creative fields that include advertising, graphic design, fashion, architecture, film, visual arts, and music have all come together for “What’s Next 30x30”. The works in the exhibition are the result of a series of dialogues ...
For the next two weeks, The Works is focusing on this year's Venice Biennale. Next week, we're looking at some of the international art on display, but this week we follow Hong Kong's amabassador to the arts, the Frog King, Kwok Mang-ho.
This week, once again, we’re devoting the entire show to this year’s Venice Biennale. But in contrast to last week’s adventures of Hong Kong’s very own Frog King, in today’s show we’re looking at some of the international exhibits.
This week, once again, we’re devoting the entire show to this year’s Venice Biennale. But in contrast to last week’s adventures of Hong Kong’s very own Frog King, in today’s show we’re looking at some of the international exhibits.
It's hard for young musicians to get opportunities to perform, particularly if their music is demanding or less mainstream. "Spotlight on Young Musicians", a series of concerts put on by the Art Development Council and the Academy for Performing Arts, ...
Currently on show at the Museum of Art is an exhibition called "Ink Art versus Ink Art". A restaging of an exhibition held at Expo Shanghai last year, it shows the wide variety of ink work by Hong Kong artists, from the traditional to the modern.
Terrence Malick has made just five feature films in a career spanning five decades, but what movies they are: "Badlands", "Days of Heaven", "The Thin Red Line", "The New World", and now "Tree of Life". It's been said that Malick doesn't have fans. He h...
Andy Warhol and other Pop artists believed art could be about everyday objects. He also believed that to get around the issues of inflated prices and exclusivity it should be mass-producable. He called his art studio "The Factory". An exhibition at Ele...
With auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's getting record prices for selling art here, and with the Art Fair growing from strength to strength, Hong Kong's arts market is booming. But it's a paradox. As artists get popular, their work gets expensive,...
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The Works features news and reviews of visual and performing arts, design, literary and other “ works ” .
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