The Works

Internationally, Zao Wou-ki is one of the most respected Chinese artists. He’s 90 this year, and has been painting since he was 14. He’s become a French citizen and lived most of his life in Paris, where he produces works that are mostly abstract but t...

Here’s a question. What musical instrument can you play without even laying a finger on it? Need a clue? It was invented only in 1928 … Well, it’s the theremin. And Lydia Kavina, who learned from the inventor Lev Theremin, is in our studio to demonstra...

How steady are your hands? How long would it take you to thread cotton through a sewing needle like this? Some of us are better at it than others. But suppose I asked you to make a sculpture inside the hole at the end of the needle? Well, English artis...

Turkish International Film Festival

To show their concern about the detention of Ai Weiwei in mainland China, several local artists have been creating a series of photographs. In 1995, Ai himself made a series of three photographs called “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” in which he … well … ...

Once upon a time, a girl lived in the woods with her father. That girl is "Hanna", and in Joe Wright’s film of the same name, she reaches sixteen and is about to step out into the big wide world and encounter, among others, an evil stepmother. It sound...

You may remember that a couple of weeks ago we introduced you to writer Jonathan Watts, who had visited Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Literary Festival. This week we’re introducing two more very different authors from opposite sides of the world who were...

Two great jazz guitarists. Martin Taylor was born in England. Heavily influenced by the music of Django Reinhart, he later went on to perform with the great jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli. Ulf Wakenius was born in Sweden, and played for many years w...

We also talk to artist Li Tianbing, whose portraits of childhood are portraits of the society in which those children grow. A single-child, owing to China's one child policy, Li populates his canvas with the imaginary brothers and sisters he never had.

The Cat Street Gallery is presenting the first solo show in Hong Kong by the acclaimed Korean-American artist, Koh Sang Woo. Sang Woo creates vivid images of human figures with an approach that adopts painting, performance, and photography.