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US cradle of low-rider cars looks to promote its custom wheels
New Mexico lawmakers declare February 11 Lowrider Day and introduce bill to make the custom vehicles a state symbol alongside roadrunner.
15 Feb 2025 - 4:39AM
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These babies aren’t real? Studio’s ultra-lifelike film and TV props
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Highlights of the coming Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2025
Taking place from March 1 to 8, this year’s HKILF will again feature established and emerging writers from Hong Kong and around the globe.
13 Feb 2025 - 12:45PM
Hong Kong writer and poet Sonia Leung is among the authors who will feature at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in March 2025. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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Friends and family mourn American-Chinese artist Rutherford Chang
The artist, a scion of Taiwan’s Advanced Semiconductor Engineering family who died aged 45, remembered as ‘warm’ and ‘endlessly curious’.
13 Feb 2025 - 4:19PM
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Food or art? Exhibition uses bread and butter to explore burnout
You can visit the A&G Boulangerie at JPS Gallery, but do not expect to buy a snack – even though the exhibition uses real bread and butter.
11 Feb 2025 - 11:15AM
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair draws collectors from around the world
More intimate than Art Basel or London’s Frieze, Marrakech’s 1-54 focused on both rising talents and well-known names such as Amoako Boafo.
10 Feb 2025 - 4:15PM
A visitor looks at an installation during the 1-54 Marrakesh contemporary African art fair on January 30, 2025. (Photo by Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION
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He worked with psychiatric patients for 30 years. Now he paints them
Retired Hong Kong psychiatric nurse Chu Hing-wah, exhibiting now at Hanart TZ Gallery, wants to use his experiences to battle misconceptions.
10 Feb 2025 - 12:45PM
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Survivors of 2023 earthquake in Turkey’s Antioch turn to art to heal
Two years after a 7.8-magnitude quake devastated parts of southern Turkey, artists express their loss, and love of Antioch, in their work.
9 Feb 2025 - 4:15PM
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Wallis Simpson a sexual and criminal deviant in China? A rethink
Famous for a British king abdicating to wed her, Simpson spent a year in China tainted by vicious rumours. Paul French has a different story.
9 Feb 2025 - 9:25AM
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Chinese ballet dancer and social media star shows what’s behind the curtain
Hong Kong Ballet dancer Sun Jia’s viral video content has garnered her hundreds of thousands of fans across Douyin, RedNote and Instagram.
7 Feb 2025 - 7:40AM
Chinese ballet dancer Sun Jia joined Hong Kong Ballet - which she considers “the most famous ballet troupe in Asia” - in 2022 after 15 years in North America and Europe. Photo: Instagram/jiajia_sun
Music
First concert of Western classical music in Islamist-run Syria held
Syria’s national symphony orchestra performed for free in an unheated hall, reflections of the dire economic toll of the country’s civil war.
8 Feb 2025 - 2:45PM
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Art in Hong Kong, brisk summation of city’s cultural power
Post’s arts editor gives incisive, accessible analysis of Hong Kong’s place in the art world, how it got there and the road ahead.
7 Feb 2025 - 6:12PM
Chinese culture
San Francisco premiere for opera based on Journey to the West
The Monkey King composer, Huang Ruo, was inspired to write the opera to give his children a superhero figure from Asia to look up to.
7 Feb 2025 - 10:23PM
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Hong Kong domestic helpers’ refuge to benefit from charity art auction
Bethune House Migrant Women’s Refuge is struggling to survive, and local artists and migrant workers are donating nearly 50 works for auction.
4 Feb 2025 - 11:26AM
Part of the “Togetherness: Two Pillars, One Shelter” exhibition to raise money for Bethune House, a Hong Kong shelter for domestic helpers. Photo: Sun Yeung
Artificial intelligence
Forgive me Alexa, for I have sinned: how AI is reshaping religion
Artificial intelligence is being used for everything from divination services to church sermons. Could it destroy religion or be its saviour?
4 Feb 2025 - 6:15PM
What to do in Hong Kong
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, Feb 7-9
Float away your stress, feast on butter chicken pizza washed down with Indian-inspired cocktails, rummage a retro mart and more this weekend.
7 Feb 2025 - 5:58PM
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Why now is the best time of the year to get tangled in Chinese knots
We explore the rich history and symbolism of Chinese knots, which signify good luck and are displayed during Lunar New Year festivities.
4 Feb 2025 - 7:57AM
Chinese knots have a long history, and are especially popular at Lunar New Year because they are believed to bring good luck. Photo: Shutterstock
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Art shows at former Hong Kong prison examine liberty and boundaries
At Tai Kwun, Alicja Kwade throws visitors into the site’s penal past, while Hu Xiaoyuan casts doubt on what we think we know.
3 Feb 2025 - 5:15PM
United States
Late US president Jimmy Carter wins posthumous Grammy for best audiobook
Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, received the award on the former president’s behalf.
3 Feb 2025 - 8:54AM
Art
Restoring Rubens painting a tall order for Antwerp museum team
A painting taller than an adult giraffe is undergoing restoration at a museum in Belgium, requiring yoga-like contortions from conservators.
3 Feb 2025 - 4:15AM
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Asian-American woman literally moulds her perfect man in Blob: A Love Story
Author Maggie Su’s surreal new novel offers a unique look at humanity as a woman creates her own very handsome Frankenstein’s monster.
31 Jan 2025 - 5:45AM
Author Maggie Su holds copies of her debut novel Blob: A Love Story. Photo: Instagram/litmagreject
Music
John Williams taught video game composer patience. The rest was up to him
For music composer Olivier Deriviere, whose games include Assassin’s Creed IV and South of Midnight, being a gamer gives him an edge.
30 Jan 2025 - 5:15PM
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European cinema
The Wallace and Gromit fans getting evil Feathers McGraw tattoos
Tattoos of the evil silent penguin from the Wallace and Gromit animated films are going viral as fans share photos on social media.
30 Jan 2025 - 8:01AM
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Music
Ukrainian folk band fights back against Russia in their own special way
Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha ensemble takes their country’s traditional folk music across the world to combat Russian cultural ‘assimilation’.
28 Jan 2025 - 4:15PM
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