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Audience members take part in theatre director Jing Wong’s latest project, When the World is Your Enemy, at The Room at the West Kowloon Cultural District in March 2026. An “epic edition” of the production, which fuses game mechanics with live performance, will be staged at WestK’s The Box in September and October 2026. Photo: WestK
Performing arts in Hong Kong

The audience are players in this ‘board game theatre’ project in Hong Kong

Audience members write their own script in Jing Wong’s gods-versus-human theatre production that plays out alongside in-character performers.

Art

From breast milk to menstrual blood, how artist Jiabao Li challenges norms

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | A Taste of Home is a wonderful, bittersweet tribute to Hong Kong’s food culture

Art

3 million mosaic pieces later, why artist Sung Tieu wants Germany to ‘wake up’

The Vietnam-born, Berlin-based artist explains how her transformation of the 2026 German pavilion at Venice reflects immigrant experiences.

Sung Tieu (centre) co-conceived “Ruin”, the German pavilion’s exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale, with the late Henrike Naumann (left). Kathleen Reinhardt (right) curated the exhibition. Photo: Victoria Tomaschko
Sung Tieu (centre) co-conceived “Ruin”, the German pavilion’s exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale, with the late Henrike Naumann (left). Kathleen Reinhardt (right) curated the exhibition. Photo: Victoria Tomaschko
Art

A factory. An estate. Why illustrator depicts these ‘beautiful’ Hong Kong spots

John Ho shows what he thinks is Hong Kong’s true cultural identity by painting the buildings and streets that form the fabric of daily life.

Chinese culture

How the Shenzhen Natural History Museum was designed to reflect its landscape

The architects behind the new museum talk about the Shenzhen landmark’s unique design that reflects its green and water-edged location.

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Fashion

This Hong Kong jewellery maker transforms memories into wearable art

The Polska Traveller founder Yeung Sau-lun talks about turning cherished items and culturally valuable objects into unique jewellery pieces.

Yeung Sau-lun is the founder of The Polska Traveller, an independent jewellery maker in Hong Kong that transforms flowers, found objects and memories into timeless wearable art. Photo: Dickson Lee
Yeung Sau-lun is the founder of The Polska Traveller, an independent jewellery maker in Hong Kong that transforms flowers, found objects and memories into timeless wearable art. Photo: Dickson Lee
Performing arts in Hong Kong

What not to miss at the 2027 Hong Kong Arts Festival

The 55th Hong Kong Arts Festival mixes the familiar and the eclectic, with a virtual Yuja Wang and Shakespeare renditions among highlights.

SCMP Highlights

Hong Kong’s dining battle; TV host’s insomnia struggle: 7 Lifestyle highlights

From Singapore’s dragon dance to French cultural influence in Hong Kong, here are seven stories from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Art

Thai artist’s shifting maze in Hong Kong reflects the choices we make in life

The moving walls at Wit Pimkanchanapong’s kinetic maze at Projct represent the unpredictable paths our lives take.

A visitor navigates Thai artist Wim Pimkanchanapong’s “Infinite Maze 189” at Projct in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong.
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Art de vivre? Why the French are such a cultural force in Hong Kong

A potent mix of diplomacy, luxury commerce and cross-cultural collaborations explains France’s outsized presence in Hong Kong’s arts scene.

“The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Meet Mona Lisa & Portraying the Renaissance”, a new exhibition with four Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts showcased at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum’s exhibition, Sha Tin. 02MAY26 SCMP/Dickson Lee
“The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Meet Mona Lisa & Portraying the Renaissance”, a new exhibition with four Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts showcased at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum’s exhibition, Sha Tin. 02MAY26 SCMP/Dickson Lee
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Hong Kong pianist Colleen Lee dazzles in celebration of Bach keyboard concertos

Colleen Lee and the New Hong Kong Philharmonia played variations of violin and oboe concertos in an energetic and elegant presentation.

Architecture and design

The Shenzhen Natural History Museum is now open. What’s to see there?

The US$517 million museum that opened on July 28 is a ‘living educational landscape’ covering space, dinosaurs, evolution and much more.

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Art

We join artist Shigeo Otake on his first real Hong Kong visit. It is different

Otake takes in Mong Kok’s streets and forages for cordyceps in Tai Po as his solo Hong Kong debut exhibition runs at White Cube.

Shigeo Otake visits Tung Choi Street in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok area to do some sketching and get inspiration for future projects. The Japanese artist is currently having his solo debut Hong Kong exhibition at White Cube in Central. Photo: May Tse
Art

Hong Kong artist channels Leslie Cheung film Farewell My Concubine for live show

Berlin-based Isaac Chong Wai’s all-male Hong Kong show An Intimate Surrender draws on the 1993 gender-fluid romance to explore vulnerability.

A scene from Isaac Chong Wai’s An Intimate Surrender, running at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary until August 9. The live-art show draws heavily on the 1993 movie Farewell My Concubine starring Leslie Cheung to explore intimacy and collective vulnerability through movement. Photo: courtesy of Tai Kwun
A scene from Isaac Chong Wai’s An Intimate Surrender, running at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary until August 9. The live-art show draws heavily on the 1993 movie Farewell My Concubine starring Leslie Cheung to explore intimacy and collective vulnerability through movement. Photo: courtesy of Tai Kwun
Hong Kong culture

Obituary | How scholar Ackbar Abbas changed the way people thought about Hong Kong

Abbas, whose concepts such as ‘déjà disparu’ are still used to explain how Hong Kong feels from the inside, died on July 13 at the age of 84.

Architecture and design

These beeswax candles shaped like fruit and vegetables look good enough to eat

Jessica Gonzalez started making candles as a kind of therapy after her parents died. Her produce-inspired candles keep her connected to them.

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Can Hong Kong ‘mega’ arts event HKPAX 2026 meet targets in tough times?

Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo’s co-director Anne Chan talks about slashed entry fees and fresh acts ahead of October’s HK$40 million event.

Colombian dance company Sankofa Danzafro will bring their piece “The City of Others” to Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun heritage arts centre as part of the Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo 2026. The expo’s new co-director, Anne Chan, explains how it aims to attract visitors, including international delegates, and achieve the same success as the inaugural biennale event in 2024. Photo: Instagram/sankofadanzafro
Colombian dance company Sankofa Danzafro will bring their piece “The City of Others” to Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun heritage arts centre as part of the Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo 2026. The expo’s new co-director, Anne Chan, explains how it aims to attract visitors, including international delegates, and achieve the same success as the inaugural biennale event in 2024. Photo: Instagram/sankofadanzafro
World of performing arts

‘Is the piano your boyfriend?’: rising Chinese pianist Lyu Tianyao, 17, opens up

Lyu Tianyao, who has secured a multi-album deal with Decca Classics, reveals why she loves Chopin, how she honours her grandmother and more.

Music

‘A duet with AI’: Herbie Hancock, 86, talks tech, getting older and Miles Davis

He may have 14 Grammy Awards and an Academy Award under his belt, but Herbie Hancock isn’t ready to stop working just yet.

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Art

Celebrating Wesley Tongson’s artwork, from disciplined to raw and visceral

Wesley Tongson’s ink masterpieces, at Asia Society Hong Kong until October 11, explore how the artist’s work evolved throughout his life.

A 1997 photograph of the late Wesley Tongsen, a Hong Kong artist diagnosed with schizophrenia and largely forgotten during his lifetime. (Courtesy of Wesley Tongson Charitable Trust)
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Inside Ai Weiwei’s gigantic UK art show, including China detention recreation

Huge works star at Ai’s largest ever site-specific show, while July 3 and 4 saw a 24-hour live performance of his 2011 detention in China.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei re-enacts his 81-day detention in a Chinese prison in Sewing a Button, a 24-hour live durational performance held on July 3 and 4, 2026, that was part of his “Button Up!” exhibition in Manchester, UK. Photo: Hugo Glendinning
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei re-enacts his 81-day detention in a Chinese prison in Sewing a Button, a 24-hour live durational performance held on July 3 and 4, 2026, that was part of his “Button Up!” exhibition in Manchester, UK. Photo: Hugo Glendinning
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Review | Hong Kong artist Ellen Pau’s New York show explores broken political promises

Ellen Pau’s New York exhibition ‘She Moves’ features 15 major pieces that document life, culture and unfulfilled political pledges.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | How does Taiwan’s legendary Cloud Gate Dance Theatre look under new director?

Cloud Gate’s first show in Hong Kong under director Cheng Tsung-lung brought familiar high-level dancing and energy, but lacked innovation.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre head on why they are ‘more manic’ than ever

Artistic director Cheng Tsung-lung shares why movement is vital in the AI era ahead of the troupe’s first performance in Hong Kong since 2019.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre artistic director Cheng Tsung-lung at the Xiqu Centre in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, where the Taiwanese dance troupe is performing its original production Lunar Halo from July 10 to 12, 2026. Photo: Elson Li
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