The Works

On Friday and Saturday this week, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra is letting us hear "A Dialogue Between a Guqin and a Gragnani", what happens when an 18th century Gragnani violin meets a Song Dynasty guqin . The concert features violinist Lu Siqing an...

In our film review, Gary Pollard tells us what happens when J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg collaborate on the movie "Super 8" It's the story of a group of teenagers making a Super 8 movie, who encounter a creature from outer space.

"Laughing With A Mouth Full Of Blood" is the human condition, which is however life it is, it will come to an end. That’s the truth of it. So you are laughing but you are dying at the same time." That's the philosophy behind the new painting exhibition...

This year’s Art HK 11 featured 260 galleries from 38 countries, up from 155 galleries the previous year. Over 1,000 artists’ works were on display and more than 63,500 people visited, a 37.7% increase. News had come early in May that the Swiss MCH Grou...

We also look at an exhibition at the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery by dancer, musician, poet, and painter Lalan, who moved to Paris with her husband Zao Wou-ki but then went on to forge her own path as an artist.

Dutch singer Laura Fygi’s new CD is called “The Best is Yet to Come”, and on it she performs jazz standards with a big band. She’s been on a tour of China singing songs from the album, and last Tuesday she performed at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. On...

“X-Men: First Class” is what’s called, in the lexicography of comic book fans, an “origins” movie. In other words, it tells us how our super-heroes, got – or at least realised they had – their superpowers.

Ai Weiwei was a founder member of the Stars art group. We talk to two other founder members of the group, Wang Keping and Huang Rui, who were recently in Hong Kong. Wang Keping and Huang Rui

Outside of the mainland authorities, no one knows the current whereabouts, of artist Ai Weiwei. The question “Where is Ai Weiwei?” was very much in evidence at the recent Art HK 11. Mainland censors have tried to stop even his name being mentioned on t...

In our studio today are two musicians who are performing "Bravo Piazzolla" with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra on Friday and Saturday. Bandoneonist Carel Kraayenhof introduces his instrument and plays us Astor Piazzolla's "Adios Nonino" while vio...