The Works

The “Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme” began in 2000, to introduce art into our everyday lives by taking it away from big museums and art galleries in the city centre and out to various districts of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories and...

Finally, in our studio painter, singer, and previously guest presenter of "The Works" and "Culture Dim Sum", Ama Huen-ning talks to us about her upcoming concert and CD, and her new published art book. She also sings a song from the new CD.

Sometimes it seems every square inch of Hong Kong has been photographed thousands of times. It’s one of the world’s most photographed cities, not only by the local photographers who are out every weekend shooting their girlfriends, boyfriends, dogs, or...

Clint Eastwood's “Hereafter” focuses on several different characters: Marie (Cecile de France), a French journalist who is caught up in a tsunami and has a near-death experience, George (Matt Damon) who actually can talk to dead people but realises wha...

Pop music is usually considered music for the younger generation. But just how young? Performing in Hong Kong last weekend was Japanese guitarist Yuto Miyazawa. He’s already built quite a name for himself … and he hasn’t even hit puberty.

Timothy Sun is a freelance saxophonist with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Macau Orchestra, and the group Saxmax. Pianist Jacqueline Leung began studying music at the Academy for Performing Arts, and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London....

In 1924, influenced by the Soviet Union, Mongolia declared itself “The People’s Republic of Mongolia”. In the early 1990s, after the Communists fell from power in Russia, Mongolia dropped the “People’s Republic” part of its name and introduced a new, m...

The final episode of the Swedish movie adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s the Millennium trilogy is with us, in the form of “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest”. People who have read the books and watched the other two films will almost certainly want to...

Choreographer Merce Cunningham and his longtime collaborator, musician John Cage, sometimes used to flip coins to decide what should happen next in their work. The aim was to let chance play a part in their art. Sadly, both artists are no longer with u...

Artist Josephine Do is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She was born in Hong Kong but moved to New Zealand in 1984 when she was seven years old. In her work, she likes to ta...