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about 7 months ago (02/11/2024)
Photos of LGBTQ people in Hong Kong ‘playing it straight’ feature in awkward exhibition that challenges attitudes towards sexual minorities | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more A photo featured in “Playing it Straight”...
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about 7 months ago (02/07/2024)
Meet Hong Kong’s ‘Flower Granny’ artist, 92 – likened to Yayoi Kusama – for whom the world is her canvas | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Hong Kong artist Fapopo with some of her work at her home in Sai Kung in December 2022...
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about 7 months ago (02/06/2024)
Following the furore over the United States Postal Service’s 2024 Year of the Dragon commemorative stamp, we look at rival stamp designs from Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Thailand and the Isle of Man....
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about 7 months ago (02/05/2024)
Those who stay: the Hong Kong artists fighting for a brighter future Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Hong Kong analysis Those who stay: the Hong Kong artists fighting for a brighter future Despite governmental intimidation of arts entities, the high cost of living and the lure of better opportunities abroad, many artists are choosing to remain in the city Lisa Movius 5 February 2024 Share The satirical cartoonist Wong Kei-kwan, who uses the pen name Zunzi, had his comic strip in the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao cancelled following government pressure, but he continues to live in the city Photo: Reuters/Tyrone Siu Some call it the great exodus: the family company owners, the bankers and the expatriate businesspeople departing Hong Kong in droves during and since the Covid-19 years...
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about 7 months ago (02/04/2024)
Does new M+ exhibition based on East Asian ink landscape paintings go too far or not far enough? | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more “(All is) non-hierarchical” (2022), a ceramic sculpture by Macanese artist Heidi Lau, at “Shanshui: Echoes and Signals”, the new exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture based on East Asian ink landscape paintings...
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about 7 months ago (02/02/2024)
Life off the beaten track: 32 years in a remote, car-free village on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island | South China Morning Post Life off the beaten track: 32 years in a remote, car-free village on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island Books and literature A cartoonist and writer waxes lyrical about his rural village and its colourful local characters, and how little has changed in his 32 years there Larry Feign + FOLLOW Published: 7:15am, 3 Feb, 2024 Why you can trust SCMP Half a lifetime ago, I moved to Wang Tong, on Lantau Island...
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about 7 months ago (02/01/2024)
Why these ephemeral clay artworks by ceramicist Ruth Ju-shih Li will crumble in front of your eyes | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Taiwanese-Australian ceramicist Ruth Ju-shih Li installs an ephemeral clay artwork at the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, in Taiwan, in 2019...
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about 7 months ago (02/01/2024)
Opinion | This Chinese ballet pushing Communist propaganda may seem ironic – but it’s incredible | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Dancers from the National Ballet of China perform “The Red Detachment of Women” at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in January...
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about 7 months ago (01/31/2024)
How Banksy’s 2015 amusement park parody Dismaland transformed a gallery founder’s view of exhibitions | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more A mermaid sculpture sits in front of a fairy castle at Banksy’s Dismaland amusement park parody in Weston-super-Mare, England, in 2015...
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about 7 months ago (01/30/2024)
Hong Kong balloon artist breaks world record with 42-metre dragon sculpture made of 38,000 balloons to usher in Year of the Dragon | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Balloon artist Wilson Pang with his 42-metre dragon sculpture - created to usher in the Year of the Dragon - and Guinness World Record certificate for the “largest balloon sculpture of a dragon” at TMTPlaza in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong...
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about 7 months ago (01/26/2024)
Hauser & Wirth Opens New Gallery Hong Kong Space with Zhang Enli Show Skip to main content By Reena Devi Plus Icon Reena Devi View All January 26, 2024 5:00pm Hauser & Wirth's new street-level gallery space in Hong Kong...
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about 8 months ago (01/24/2024)
Ex-Hong Kong weather presenter brings her one-woman comedy show, Yoga & Sex… for women (over 40), to the city | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Performing arts in Hong Kong + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Former TVB Pearl weather presenter Kathryn Haywood performs her one-woman comedy show, “Yoga & Sex… for women (over 40)“, which she is taking to Hong Kong...
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about 9 months ago (12/18/2023)
Featuring outstanding choreography and superb performances, the Hong Kong Dance Company’s staging of Helen Lai’s HerStory had even more impact than when it was first put on in 2007....
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about 9 months ago (12/12/2023)
French artist’s sea-life sculptures amaze and terrify in Hong Kong exhibition at Tai Kwun | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more French artist Jean-Marie Appriou with some of his sea-life sculptures at his exhibition “Magnetic” at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong...
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about 9 months ago (12/10/2023)
Giant Rubber Duck artist on why size matters – ‘instead of us looking at it, it is now looking at us’ – and his miniatures on show in Seoul | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Dutch artist and “Rubber Duck” creator Florentijn Hofman in Hong Kong in June 23 for the return of his giant inflatable artwork to Victoria Harbour, this time with a twin...
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about 9 months ago (12/07/2023)
Hampstead Heath's notorious gay cruising spot recreated for London exhibition Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Exhibitions review Hampstead Heath's notorious gay cruising spot recreated for London exhibition Trevor Yeung, who will represent Hong Kong at the next Venice Biennale, considers the unspoken language of public sex for his Gasworks solo show Kabir Jhala 7 December 2023 Share Installation view of Trevor Yeung's Soft Ground at Gasworks, London Like many of us, the artist Trevor Yeung spent his time during the Covid-19 lockdowns in London taking long walks...
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about 9 months ago (12/06/2023)
Hong Kong Sinfonietta music director and conductor Christoph Poppen explains how a concert by famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his pianist sister Hephzibah opened eyes to the power of music...
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about 9 months ago (12/05/2023)
German artist Neo Rauch on ‘punching back’ at critics as he holds second solo exhibition in Hong Kong | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more German artist Neo Rauch with his “Die Nachtfalterin” (2023) at David Zwirner gallery in Central, Hong Kong, where he is holding his latest solo exhibition...
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about 9 months ago (12/05/2023)
Christie’s Hong Kong autumn 2023 auctions fetch US$384 million, see strong demand for Asian masterpieces | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more “Bad Barber” (2000), by Yoshitomo Nara, sold for HK$51.2 million including fees on November 28 during Christie’s 20th- and 21st-century art evening sale in Hong Kong, part of the auction house’s 2023 autumn sales...
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about 9 months ago (12/01/2023)
Opinion | How shoddy building construction prompted Hong Kong’s love of glazed ceramic tiles | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement A worker cleans the dust-pink glazed ceramic tiles on the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui...
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about 9 months ago (12/01/2023)
As 3 historic Hong Kong urban villages face demolition, can anything save them from destruction? | South China Morning Post As 3 historic Hong Kong urban villages face demolition, can anything save them from destruction? History Ngau Chi Wan, Chuk Yuen and Cha Kwo Ling are set to be replaced by homogenous residential blocks, despite the efforts of historians, architects and academics Martin Williams + FOLLOW Published: 7:15am, 2 Dec, 2023 Why you can trust SCMP Along a narrow path through a centuries-old village sits a grey-brick house with granite blocks around the doorway....
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about 9 months ago (11/27/2023)
‘A huge role in Hong Kong pop culture’: Old Master Q comic strip’s supporting characters celebrated in exhibition | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more The secondary characters in comic strip Old Master Q, which captured everyday life in Hong Kong, are being celebrated in “Old Master Q, ‘Side C’ Exhibition”, which will be held at Quiet Gallery HK in the Landmark, Central, until December 3, 2023...
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about 10 months ago (11/25/2023)
Enlarged windows, glass bricks and balustrades allow light to flow through Hong Kong village home after renovation | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Architecture and design + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more When work was thin during the pandemic, an interior designer tapped her employees to overhaul her family’s three-storey villa with garden in Sai Kung, Hong Kong...
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about 10 months ago (11/25/2023)
Novelist Tony Parsons on the 70s and Debbie Harry, love at first sight and why Hong Kong is his place | South China Morning Post Novelist Tony Parsons on the 70s and Debbie Harry, love at first sight and why Hong Kong is his place Profile The British writer recalls following punk rockers around in the drug-addled 70s, wild times in Wan Chai, falling in love, and finding his voice as a novelist Kate Whitehead + FOLLOW Published: 6:15am, 26 Nov, 2023 Why you can trust SCMP My dad was a Royal Navy commando and was badly wounded in the invasion of Elba (in Italy during World War II), in Operation Brassard...
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about 10 months ago (11/22/2023)
Second Clockenflap festival this December is ‘a leap of faith’, says co-founder, who promises ‘outrageous levels of fun for all who come’ | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Performing arts in Hong Kong + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more How will December’s Clockenflap festival differ from the March edition? Justin Sweeting, Clockenflap co-founder and head of music, talks to the Post...
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about 10 months ago (11/22/2023)
She saves Hong Kong’s neon signs, but it was a Taiwanese mansion that triggered her journey | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Architecture and design + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Cardin Chan is general manager of Tetra Neon Exchange, which rescues and preserves Hong Kong’s disappearing neon signs...
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about 10 months ago (11/21/2023)
Oysters play a vital water-cleaning role in ecosystems, but oyster farms are being affected by climate change and pollution...
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about 10 months ago (11/19/2023)
South Korean artist Yi Yi Jeong Eun’s impasto oil paintings – now on show in Hong Kong – convey nature in its many forms | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more “There, Breaking Through The Ground” (2023) by Yi Yi Jeong Eun...
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about 10 months ago (11/18/2023)
Transcending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this musical ensemble plays a message of hope for the Middle East | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Performing arts in Hong Kong + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more The West-Eastern Divan Ensemble at the Pierre Boulez Saal concert hall in Berlin, Germany...