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Nina Garenetska of the Ukrainian folk music quartet DakhaBrakha performs on stage at the Cabaret Sauvage in Paris, France on January 22, 2025. Photo: AFP
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’.

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Lunar New Year

Women in this Chinese lion dance troupe also fling around the men

Art

In Korean artist’s ‘Black Paintings’, the unseen is just as important

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Stunning moments in Beyond Dance Theater’s riff on Shakespeare

Kelvin Mak’s brilliantly original choreography illuminates The Night Before Tempest, but the narrative could flow better.

A scene from Beyond Dance Theater’s The Night Before Tempest at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, which features brilliantly original dance but whose narrative is incoherent. Photo: BDT
A scene from Beyond Dance Theater’s The Night Before Tempest at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, which features brilliantly original dance but whose narrative is incoherent. Photo: BDT
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Passion and schmaltz in Hong Kong chamber music festival finale

Titled ‘La Belle Epoque’, the finale of the 2025 Beare’s Premiere Music Festival brought out the best from an acclaimed line-up of musicians.

Books and literature

Onyx Storm author Rebecca Yarros meets superfans as new book tops charts

Yarros was interviewed by Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez, answered fan questions and took photos with them in Manhattan.

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Hong Kong society

McDonald’s Hong Kong says worker sacked for sharing sensitive information online

Activist artist Luke Ching had called for company to resume paying employees for mealtime breaks.

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Luke Ching says he was informed on Sunday morning his contract had been terminated. Photo: Instagram/ @lukechinghk
Luke Ching says he was informed on Sunday morning his contract had been terminated. Photo: Instagram/ @lukechinghk
Books and literature

100 years after The Great Gatsby’s release, novel makes ‘new connections’

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel has inspired social movements and a Leonardo DiCaprio film. The author’s hometown is marking its centenary.

Art

How a Hong Kong seal carver keeps an ancient Chinese art alive

Third-generation seal engraver Yam Man-hong talks about preserving the craft at his tiny Hong Kong stall, and keeping up with the times.

Art

Rescued Ukraine artworks on display in Germany, free for Ukrainian refugees

The Berlin show consists of 60 works from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, including by Frits Thaulow and Francesco Granacci.

Visitors stand in front of the painting Ecce Homo (circa 1625), by Italian painter Bernardo Strozzi, at the exhibition “From Odesa to Berlin: European Painting of the 16th to 19th Century” at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany, on January 22, 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE
Chinese culture

Designer on why Hong Kong red packets need to be ‘universal’

A designer of lai see envelopes given out at Lunar New Year talks about adding novelty to them while still satisfying traditionalists.

Lai see envelopes created by Hong Kong design studio The Cabinet. Its founder explains how it balances tradition and modernity in its designs for them. Photo: Kylie Knott
Lai see envelopes created by Hong Kong design studio The Cabinet. Its founder explains how it balances tradition and modernity in its designs for them. Photo: Kylie Knott
Hong Kong culture

Her 1,000-piece collection of Hong Kong memorabilia tells the city’s story

From dolls, ceramics and vintage textiles to posters, books and souvenirs, Tarlan Amigh is on a mission to tell the real story of Hong Kong.

Food and Drinks

British-Chinese author’s hopes for her A to Z of Chinese food

In An A to Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included), London writer Jenny Lau picks apart food clichés to explore what it means to be Chinese.

Art

Portuguese dressage school preserves a ‘source of collective identity’

At Lisbon’s Portuguese School of Equestrian Art, riders and a unique breed of horses are guardians of dressage recently listed by Unesco.

A dressage performance at the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art. Photo: AFP
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, January 24-26

Stock up on festive food, shop for panda-themed jewellery, do an outdoor hatha yoga class and more this weekend in Hong Kong.

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Join an outdoor hatha yoga session at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park on Sunday evening, to get in touch with mind and body ahead of the Lunar New Year. Photo: Shutterstock
Join an outdoor hatha yoga session at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park on Sunday evening, to get in touch with mind and body ahead of the Lunar New Year. Photo: Shutterstock
Art

Weekend art getaway to Foshan, China – a 2-day itinerary for unique event

Just over an hour’s train ride from Hong Kong, Foshan is holding an art biennial that encourages people to explore its villages and islands.

Art

Hong Kong museums take tours for disabled people to the next level

A museum’s free accessible tours for the hearing-impaired use Hong Kong Sign Language, while M+ and the Palace Museum offer new options.

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Architecture and design

Trees star at these stunning homes and buildings as creators go bark-ing mad

From airports and apartment buildings to beautiful private houses, architects and interior designers are using trees to striking effect.

A Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa) tree is situated in an infinity pool in this rendering of a home in New Delhi, India, designed by New York-based firm ODA Architecture. Photo: AP
A Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa) tree is situated in an infinity pool in this rendering of a home in New Delhi, India, designed by New York-based firm ODA Architecture. Photo: AP
Architecture and design

Culture war against Bauhaus movement by Germany’s far-right AfD rebuked

Nazi Germany banned Bauhaus as ‘degenerate art’. Germany’s far-right party attacks it for ‘architectural sins’. Bauhaus defenders push back.

Art

Drone photos of every Hong Kong outdoor basketball court become art

Austin Bell’s mission to shoot all 2,549 courts took him and his drone across the city, and created geometric art for a book and exhibition.

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Music

With LA’s counter-culture suburb in ruins, creatives’ pain ramps up

Already hurting in the post-Covid economy, many millennial creatives who lost their Altadena homes in wildfires are now feeling priced out.

A home burns in the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Los Angeles County, California, on January 8, 2025, as fires continue to ravage parts of the city. Large swathes of Altadena have since been destroyed. Photo: AP
TV shows and streaming video

Why American Primeval actress Betty Gilpin is a ‘true American legend’

The Glow star, who filmed parts of Netflix’s new Western series six months pregnant, will make her Broadway debut this month in Oh, Mary!

Betty Gilpin (right) and Chloe Lysenko in a still from the new Netflix TV series American Primeval. Gilpin also recently finished shooting the coming Netflix drama Death by Lightning. Photo: TNS
Betty Gilpin (right) and Chloe Lysenko in a still from the new Netflix TV series American Primeval. Gilpin also recently finished shooting the coming Netflix drama Death by Lightning. Photo: TNS
Music

Seoul Philharmonic, Jaap van Zweden’s new orchestra, aims for ‘world-class’

Jung Jae-wal, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra’s new CEO, wants it to compete with the world’s most prestigious orchestras within 10 years.

Art

Update | 14 Hong Kong art exhibitions in 2025, from Pharoahs to Picasso

Hong Kong art lovers have an exciting year in store, to judge by a slew of recently announced exhibitions. Here are 14 to look forward to.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, January 17-19

From tasting tea to doing tai chi to an electronic music beat, five things to draw you out of your flat this weekend in Hong Kong.

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The Kalos x Squid Game 2 pop-up at Hysan Place, Causeway Bay, features copies of the motion-sensing doll and pink-clad soldiers from hit Korean drama series Squid Game’s season 2 on Netflix. it’s one of our must-sees this weekend in Hong Kong. Photo: Kalos
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