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Author Han Kang hopes to ‘continue as always’ after Nobel Prize win
Han Kang, South Korea’s first Nobel Literature laureate, says win was a ‘joyful moment’ she ‘quietly celebrated’, but now it’s back to work.
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5 must-see performances in Hong Kong this weekend, October 18-20
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Wynton Marsalis looks ahead to his band’s jazz concerts in Hong Kong
Audience can expect classical jazz pieces from the 1920s and 30s, a Marsalis original and ‘a good time’ as trumpeter celebrates his birthday.
16 Oct 2024 - 4:14PM
Wynton Marsalis, who will perform with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Hong Kong on October 17 and 18, 2024. Photo: Gilberto Tadday/Jazz at Lincoln Center
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‘Authentic’ Turandot by Opera Hong Kong well sung and directed
Jia Ding’s ‘authentic’ Chinese production of Puccini work sets the stage for some fine singing and acting, notably by soprano Bing Bing Wang.
15 Oct 2024 - 6:15PM
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Chinese artefacts thousands of years old in new Hong Kong exhibition
The Hong Kong Palace Museum exhibition includes more than 100 artefacts dating back to the earliest traces of Chinese civilisation.
13 Oct 2024 - 7:45AM
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Follow the Mozart trail in Salzburg, Austria, birthplace of the genius
Stroll around Austria’s fourth largest city and take in the places where Mozart was born, lived, and composed and conducted music.
15 Oct 2024 - 4:15PM
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Hong Kong diaspora artists’ views of the city seen in Shenzhen show
Human desires, the comfort of family and friends, a sense of displacement among ideas conveyed by art on show at Shenzhen’s Mangrove Gallery.
14 Oct 2024 - 5:15PM
A partial view of video installation Elegy of Resonance by Shawn Pakhin Tang, an artist who divides his time between Germany and Hong Kong, at Mangrove Gallery in Shenzhen. Photo: Mangrove Gallery
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How ancient Chinese made rock music with jade and limestone chimes
Lithophones comprising stone chimes in a frame were played at the imperial court and in rituals, and feature in Chinese orchestras today.
14 Oct 2024 - 11:15AM
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Its claytime as ceramics get special Frieze London section for first time
Frieze London’s ceramics showcase features indigenous or diaspora artists mainly from Central and South America.
12 Oct 2024 - 4:15PM
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Cézanne to Rodin, Dutch exhibition marks 150 years of Impressionism
Works by Monet, Renoir and others can be seen at the Van Gogh Museum, while Andy Warhol’s ‘Reigning Queens’ show is at another Dutch museum.
11 Oct 2024 - 4:15PM
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The Chinese superfans flocking to Seoul to watch Korean musicals
Korean original musicals and Western productions are attracting audiences from China, while Chinese productions are making inroads in Korea.
11 Oct 2024 - 4:41AM
A scene from the Korean production of La Rose de Versailles. Korean musicals staged in Seoul are increasingly attracting fans from China. Photo: Instagram/kim_ssohyun
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‘This is very radical,’ Marina Abramovic says of her first China show
Conceptual and performance artist Marina Abramovic’s largest exhibition ever opens at the Modern Art Museum in Shanghai.
10 Oct 2024 - 8:31AM
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Mariinsky Theatre’s Tosca in Macau was one of the best you’ll see
Performed at the 2024 Macao International Music Festival, the Mariinsky Theatre’s production of Puccini’s opera Tosca was simply immaculate.
9 Oct 2024 - 4:15PM
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Women in Art Fair seeks to reverse centuries of gender imbalance
Coinciding with Frieze Week, the Women in Art Fair 2024 in London is showcasing works by around 150 women and female-identifying artists.
9 Oct 2024 - 3:15PM
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Japanese traditional crafts are dying. Can a new push save them?
Efforts to create a new wave of interest in Japanese art and design in Europe are in full flow as the value of their domestic market plunges.
9 Oct 2024 - 7:15AM
Japanese potter Kosai Yamane shows how to use a pottery mould at his studio in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, which for more than 100 years has produced ceramics. The market for traditional Japanese art, crafts and design in their domestic market has plunged over the last 30 years. Photo: AFP
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All about Chinese bamboo flutes, once made from the bones of a bird
The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera.
16 Oct 2024 - 8:12AM
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5 shows to see in Hong Kong this weekend, from music to opera and dance
Catch some Italian opera, Chinese opera, dance, and Western and Chinese classical music in the run-up to the Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo.
10 Oct 2024 - 1:15PM
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5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, October 11-13
Try Korean hanwoo beef at a new noodle restaurant, see an anime master’s latest film, pamper your pet or do some outdoor yoga this weekend.
11 Oct 2024 - 3:21PM
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Mesmerising mosaics made with 2 tonnes of gold return to former glory
US$1.2 million restoration sees the mosaics of Sicily’s Monreale Cathedral, a Unesco World Heritage site, set to regain their golden lustre.
8 Oct 2024 - 5:15PM
A mosaic of Christ Pantocrator is seen inside the Monreale Cathedral, a Unesco World Heritage site, in Monreale, Sicily, Italy, on August 25, 2024. The mosaic is one of many in the church that have undergone restoration work to return them to their former glory Photo: Reuters
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Director on making Puccini opera Turandot authentically Chinese
Director Jia Ding explains why his Opera Hong Kong production of rare Western work ‘that talks about China’ has to be historically accurate.
16 Oct 2024 - 8:14AM
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Rapper RZA on mixing hip-hop, classical music and ballet on his new album
Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA’s album A Ballet Through Mud was inspired by rhymes in his old notebooks, and recorded with the Colorado Symphony.
8 Oct 2024 - 4:23AM
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Pianist Eric Lu revels in Chopin on Hong Kong recital debut
Lu, 2018 Leeds International winner, shows enough Baroque feel for Handel, is on surer ground in Schubert and comes into his own in Chopin.
7 Oct 2024 - 5:15PM
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