The Works

The Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, held every year in July in the town of Kuhmo, is Finland’s largest chamber music festival. It’s become an annual meeting ground of world-renowned music-makers. On Thursday, musicians from that festival are performing i...

"Torre pendente di Pisa" is an experimental project by local artists and activists "Museum Minus". Inspired by what they call the growing “Real Estate Hegemony”, they have turned their 150 square feet office in an industrial building in Prince Edward i...

The Ken Bruen novel “London Boulevard” is a reworking of Billy Wilder’s classic “Sunset Boulevard”. “Sunset Boulevard” is about an out of work screenwriter who becomes a handyman and gigolo for a much older and retired female movie star. “London Boulev...

At the New Gallery on Old Bailey until 16th July you can see an exhibition by Sim Chan, or Chan Wing-Leung. The show’s called “[Kong]2” and in it Chan meditates on the many meanings of the word "空" and shows us our city from a worm’s eye perspective.

In town last week, performing two shows at Grappa’s in Central, was a legend of the jazz world: saxophonist Ernie Watts. The two-time Grammy award winner has played with some of the greatest names in jazz and pop history, with orchestras, and with big ...

Coming up in November at the Academy for Performing Arts is the Cirque Mechanics “Birdhouse Factory”. Its creators describe it as a circus unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. It mixes inspirations from Charlie Chaplin, Mexican mural artist Diego R...

Cyprien Chabert is a three-dimensional sculptor and has been called one of the most significant French artists of his generation. In his exhibition "Dogs Meow", showing at the agnes b. librairie galerie until August, he invites us to visit an unusual p...

In “Something Borrowed” lawyer Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) has sex with the fiance of her best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson). The wedding is due in just a few weeks. After that encounter Rachel and Dex (played by Colin Egglesfield), also a lawyer, are tryin...

If you pay much attention to the Asian pop charts, you’ll know just how influential J-pop and K-pop, from Japan and Korea respectively, are. But Korea and Japan also have musicians, and listeners, who like a smoother, more mature kind of music that isn...

The Chinese Documentary Film Festival is now in its fourth year. Films selected for the festival are on show at the Hong Kong Arts Centre until 9th July. Maybe you think you see enough documentaries on TV, but these are likely to be something quite dif...