The Works

Tonight, something that’s all around you but that you may not even notice. Practically everything manmade involves design, and that’s the topic of much of this week’s show. We begin by looking at the Business of Design Week, which this year is focusing...

Chu Hing-Wah is now a full time artist, but before he retired from his other career he spent 28 years of his working life helping the mentally ill, and creating art in his spare time. His career as a psychiatric nurse had a strong influence on his work...

Time to say cheese. Or at least to smile, as we’re focusing on photography in tonight’s show, and two exhibitions from the first Hong Kong Photo Festival.

We begin with an exhibition that reveals how the camera can become a particularly useful form...

David Fincher’s “The Social Network” is a movie about the creation of Facebook, and as such it’s about computer nerds and civil lawsuits. Neither of those usually makes for interesting films. Apart from that it's director David Fincher usually likes to...

We begin our show this week with the story of a man who has been called, “China’s Shakespeare”. He’s playwright Cao Yu, who – heavily influenced by Western theatrical forms – was one of the best known early practitioners of Chinese spoken drama or "hu

And we travel into the bizarre but happy world of the American pop group “The Flaming Lips”. Q Magazine says they are one of the “50 Bands You Need to See Before You Die”. Wayne Coyne, their frontman, describes them as a “weird party-freaky-rock ensemb...

In tonight’s show we’re travelling 900 years into the past as we celebrate an ancient Qingming Festival. One of the biggest art events in town at the moment is “River of Wisdom” the animated version of Zhang Zeduan’s classic painting "Riverside Scene a...

For many, how you earn and spend is the strongest measure of your success.Our consumption of products defines us: elegant, sophisticated, a member of the elite. Or perhaps not. Shopping can be fierce and bloody. Just visit a sale..Currently on show at ...

his year’s Hong Kong Dance Festival will run until 18th December and is all about celebrating the diversity of the local and international dance scene. It includes stage productions, competitions, workshops, talks, an international dance symposium, and...

Parkour or freerunning is a recreational activity that some would even consider a philosophy. It involves, to put it technically, “traversing elements in both urban and rural settings.” Now two French artists have created an exhibition that they say ma...