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last updated:
9 September, 2024
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Director Ray Yeung Yaw-kae, at Broadway Cinematheque in Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

How Hong Kong director Ray Yeung is changing LGBTQ representation in Asian film

The writer and filmmaker on his struggles, successes, failures, funding for LGBTQ movies and coming home to Hong Kong.

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Sustainable fabric by Kieffer, made of jute (cultivated without chemicals) and recycled cotton, at Altfield Interiors. Photo: Courtesy of Altfield Interiors

The design trends to know for 2025

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Diversity Hub, a multifunctional space in Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong run by Christian Charity, includes glass panels that can be used to create distinct rooms such as a kitchen and exhibition area. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

How a rundown flat in Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions became a diversity hub

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JW Marriott Hotel bar Q88’s new cocktail menu draws from the breadth of mixology, with tiki, savoury, slushy and creamy cocktails alike. Photo: Q88

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, January 19-25

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Anthony Grey, the journalist placed under house arrest in Beijing for 26 months from July 1967. Photo: Post Staff Photographer

When China put a journalist under house arrest in retaliation for jailings

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A building in west Berlin’s Hansaviertel designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. Banned in Nazi Gemany, the modernist movement has come under fire from far-right German party the AfD for “architectural sins of crushing ugliness”. Photo: ullstein bild via Getty Images
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.

Photography

Drone photos of every Hong Kong outdoor basketball court become art

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Hong Kong economy

4,000 visitors expected for festival at once-abandoned Hong Kong hakka village

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Hong Kong society

Showcase of 52 French masterpieces in Hong Kong sign of ‘strong friendship’

Hong Kong Museum of Art launches exhibition featuring works by painters Renoir and Cézanne.

The exhibition opened on Friday and will run until May 7. Photo: Elson Li
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.

Fame and celebrity

Who is Friends star David Schwimmer’s former partner, artist Zoë Buckman?

Buckman was raised in London in a creative family; she met Schwimmer while waitressing in 2007 and they married and had a child before divorcing in 2017, although they remain cordial co-parents.

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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
Photography

Recap | How famous photographers capture the essence of Hong Kong over the years

Explore the rich history and cultural evolution of Hong Kong through the lenses of renowned photographers.

Style Edit

Style Edit: 4 top museums add Anna Hu high jewellery to permanent collections

The contemporary jewellery artist mixes naturalism and exuberance in her otherworldly creations, which draw inspiration from traditional Chinese art and classical music.

Tourism

European Capital of Culture rebrand for Chemnitz, German far-right hotbed

Chemnitz, a city known for right-wing extremism, will host 150 cultural projects in 2025 to change its image. But not everyone is on board.

A far-right rally in Chemnitz in 2019. Photo: AFP
Food and Drinks

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, January 12-18

Try spirit-free cocktails at The Opposites or The Legacy House’s tangerine peel tasting menu, and see new stage play Homecoming or sculptor Alicja Kwade’s solo show.

The Legacy House’s newest menu is dedicated to dried tangerine peel. Photo: The Legacy House
Donald Trump

New interest in viral Donald Trump as Buddha figures by Chinese sculptor

Sculptor Hong Jinshi’s Buddha-like Trump figures went viral in 2021, and since the US election are back in demand. His new focus? Elon Musk.

Hong Kong society

Palace Museum to bring Islamic, Tutankhamun relics to Hong Kong in 2025

Museum’s number of visitors fell by 17 per cent last year to 1 million, compared with 1.2 million in 2023.

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Hong Kong Jockey Club

Cézanne and Renoir expo explores 2 friends’ strikingly different styles

Hong Kong Museum of Art’s exhibition, ‘The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Cézanne and Renoir Looking at the World’, will feature a collection of 52 late 19th century works from the Impressionist masters.

Apples and Biscuits (circa 1880), by Paul Cézanne. Photo: GrandPalaisRmn/Musée de l’Orangerie
Hong Kong housing

Hong Kong cultural district’s housing scheme to include more arts elements

District councillors express concerns the proposed residential development may undermine art hub’s image.

The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority is proposing to build seven residential blocks in the area. Photo: Jelly Tse
Fame and celebrity

How Jimmy Carter’s art shows a different side to late US president

He favoured woodwork over golf, made chairs and painted artworks that sold for thousands. Art is part of the late US president’s legacy.

Americas and the Caribbean

Who needs Art Basel? Town in rural Uruguay a magnet for world’s artists

Pueblo Garzon, an old mill town, drew 6,000 visitors to its eighth Campo Artfest. For one resident artist, the festival beats Art Basel.

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Royalty

Who is Samuel Chatto’s artist girlfriend, Eleanor Ekserdjian?

In a notable move, Samuel Chatto – Princess Margaret’s grandson – brought his girlfriend Eleanor Ekserdjian to spend time with the royal family on Christmas Day – here’s what we know about her.

The fact that Eleanor Ekserdjian was seen spending Christmas with her boyfriend Samuel Chatto and the British royal family implies the pair are getting serious. Photos: @3812gallery, @e.ekserdjian/Instagram
Beauty

South Korean artist Geumhyung Jeong challenges our relationship with beauty

In Geumhyung Jeong’s recent exhibition ‘Spa & Beauty’, the performance artist and choreographer explores beauty and body-care products, and our complicated relationships to them.

Iran

Artist’s vibrant viral Instagram works lift up crumbling district

Adel Yazdi has turned his neighbourhood in Shiraz, Iran into a vivid visual tapestry that many tourists are discovering through social media.

India

Shock and gore: why Indian street plays resort to the outrageous and grotesque

Street theatre in India has had to adapt to the digital age and ideological threats to stay relevant amid a changing cultural landscape.

A dramatic moment from the street play “Door Se Kisi Ne Awaaz Di” (Someone Called from Afar) performed in India. Photo: Manjul Bhardwaj
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, January 3-5

Catch some bargains at a Hong Kong products expo, see a Korean artist’s pop-up show of paintings, learn how to map your body, and more.

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Somatic body mapping allows you to take a deep dive into your unconscious mind, according to Adriana Reixach Garcia, who will lead a workshop about it in Hong Kong on January 4. Photo: Instagram.com/mybodytalksnow/
What to do in Hong Kong

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.

Family offices

Bankers say new tax concessions to boost Hong Kong’s status as family office hub

UBS, JPMorgan and BNP Paribas among key players seeking to attract family offices.

Women and gender

Indonesia’s Frida Kahlo, taboo-breaking artist Arahmaiani in spotlight

With a recent show in Jakarta and now one in the UK, artist who was imprisoned, then exiled reminds Indonesians of past they want to forget.

Arahmaiani, Indonesian visual and performing artist, at her exhibition in Jakarta. Photo: AFP
Malaysia

A Malaysian artist’s quest to revive the lost sound of Sabah’s sundatang

Mcfeddy Simon, better known as Gindung, is on a mission to restore the two-stringed lute’s place in the state’s musical heritage.

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Tuni Sundatang performing on stage at a show in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: Joseph Sipalan
Hungary

He built a life-size tram out of Lego. And that’s not all

Hungarian ‘Lego certified professional’ Balazs Doczy enlisted 90 helpers to make the life-size replica tram now on display in Budapest.

Hong Kong

Arts stories you read most in 2024, including one about a Cantopop classic

We look back at some of the top arts stories in 2024, from a deep dive into Cantopop song The Bund to the criticised Chubby Hearts project.

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