The Works

Painters and other visual artists tend to stylise and filter. But since the invention of film and photography, we’ve been able to get a relatively unfiltered view of reality, even the reality of times long before we were born and places we’ve never see...

“The Runaways” is about the formation, success, and break up of one of the first, if not the first, all girl rock and roll bands. It’s produced by guitarist Joan Jett, and based on an autobiography by the band’s singer Cherie Currie. When they appeared...

Hong Kong’s education system is moving to the 3-3-4 model, under which tertiary-level undergraduate programmes will expand to four years. Eight local universities have to change from the current three-year undergraduate curriculum to a four-year one by...

Arts Diary

In the studio, singer Liz Merendino and pianist Warren Wills perform a song from the one-woman stage show "Seasons of Liz"

The Art Habitat programme promotes affordable art collection. Artists participating in the ongoing project are students and alumni from the Hong Kong Art School. Currently, borrowers can lease 25 art pieces by 14 artists. They include photographs, pain...

“The A-Team” ran for five seasons on the NBC television network in the mid-eighties. It was a highly merchandised TV series about a group of ex-United States Army men who had become soldiers of fortune after being branded as war criminals for a "crime ...

From “Paris of the East” to now the host city of this year’s World Expo, Shanghai is one of the most Westernised cities in China. As a port city like Hong Kong, Shanghai is opened for foreign trades, mirgration of population and in-coming cultures. But...

“Paganini’s Gut" is the title of an upcoming concert by violinist Andrea Zanchetta and the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. It features music played on original lambs' gut strings similar to those Paganini himself would have used. Andreas is in the...

Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming attained fame in Taiwan in the 1970s, and in New York in 1983. As a teenager he was trained as a woodcarver, apprenticed to Lee Chin-chuan. He now works with a range of media, including bronze, styrofoam, ceramics, and stainl...