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last updated:
9 September, 2024
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Dylan So in a scene in Papa, in 2024. Photo: Golden Scene

Dylan So debuts in Papa as a young murderer troubled by voices

The 18-year-old Hong Kong actor has won over audiences playing a quiet high schooler – who kills his family.

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Jesse Hao Lap-hang (left) and Charis Mok Shu-wai from Zou Mat. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

The artisans behind Hong Kong’s woodworking revival

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Pantai Pandan is one of the best known beaches in Sibolga, Indonesia. Photo: Aisyah Llewellyn

Indonesia’s smallest city offers beaches, boat rides and seafood galore

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The main living area in the home redesigned by Iman El Zeky. Photo: Harold de Puymorin

A long-standing family home gets a feng-shui friendly makeover

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Jia Zhangke, a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

How director Jia Zhangke captures China’s rise in his gritty films

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How a Mumbai studio transformed this Hong Kong apartment

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A dressage performance at the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art. Photo: AFP
Portugal

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.

Greater Bay Area

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

What to do in Hong Kong

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

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.

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
Photography

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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Hong Kong economy

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

The Countryside Harvest Festival: Kuk Po ‘Sound-Sight-Taste Fusion’ Tour will run for two consecutive weekends.

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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.

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.

Fan Ho with his Rolleiflex 3.5 A (type K4A) camera which he used to take phots of Hong Kong in the 50s and 60s. Photo: Fan Ho
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.

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.

A sculpture of US president-elect Donald Trump in a pose evoking the Buddha. Photo: AFP
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.

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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.

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.

Geumhyung Jeong is known for her creative exploration of the relationship between the body and its associated objects. Photo: Kanghyuk Lee
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.

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.

Portrait de Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso. Photo: Handout
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.

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