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From Hiroshima to Fukushima in rambling, riveting Wildcat Dome
Now in English translation, Yuko Tsushima’s novel explores radiation, racism and personal conflict against a backdrop of nuclear disaster.
22 Mar 2025 - 6:15PM
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How 3 dancers accomplished one of ballet’s most difficult feats
22 Mar 2025 - 4:15PM
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Hong Kong ASMR show brings internet trend out from behind the screen
22 Mar 2025 - 1:15PM
What to do in Hong Kong
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, March 21-23
See street art at HKwalls, try a mash-up of wonton noodles and modern Chinese cuisine, learn how to celebrate your unique essence and more.
21 Mar 2025 - 5:55PM
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Hong Kong street art festival HKwalls is back for its 10th edition from March 22 to 30, 2025, centred on PMQ in Central district. It’s one of our top five things to see and do in Hong Kong this weekend. Photo: HKwalls
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Refined Mozart, inspired Bach from Andras Schiff and his ensemble
Schiff and the Cappella Andrea Barca’s playing of Mozart exuded grace and refinement, and they were on point in Bach’s keyboard concertos.
21 Mar 2025 - 4:45PM
Books and literature
Hunger Games prequel novel Sunrise On The Reaping called ‘heart-wrenching’
District 12 victor Haymitch Abernathy’s past is explored in ‘propulsive’ fifth book by Suzanne Collins set in fictional dystopia she created.
21 Mar 2025 - 3:40PM
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Deliciously terrifying David Boring show mixes post-punk sounds with horror
The underground indie group’s one-off event included them live-scoring horror music videos by local filmmakers and a Butoh performance.
20 Mar 2025 - 6:09PM
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Janice Lau of David Boring performs at Current Plans in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong, on March 15, 2025. The one-off show, titled “Stare Out From Your Own Burning”, included the band live-scoring horror music videos by local filmmakers with new songs. Photo: Elton Fung
Music
Top pianist cancels US tour, asks ‘Have we learned nothing from the 1930s?’
Andras Schiff says he feels morally obliged to withdraw from his 2025-26 season US concerts, noting that arts and politics are inseparable.
20 Mar 2025 - 1:21PM
Art
How indigenous artists on remote Australian island keep traditions alive
Aboriginal artists from Australia’s Tiwi Islands, whose works will show at Hong Kong’s Art Basel, offer a window into their culture.
21 Mar 2025 - 9:19AM
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US visa fee increases, delays make tours there ‘not worth it’ for artists
1,000-day waits for interviews. 8 months for processing. Higher fees. Visa applications are a headache for acts looking to tour the States.
22 Mar 2025 - 6:56PM
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Statue of Liberty, Big Ben models made of scrap in underwater art show
A Swedish art project aims to create an underwater city of the world’s most famous buildings to highlight the threat from rising sea levels.
18 Mar 2025 - 5:16PM
A model of London’s Big Ben made of scrap recovered from the sea around Stockholm, Sweden, by Hands2Ocean is lowered into position for the group’s underwater art show, “Atlantis”. Photo: Instagram/hands2ocean
Tourism
Explore Paris through its art, from the Louvre’s Mona Lisa to Salvador Dali
An art critic shares her guide to exploring the art treasures of Paris, from some of the most well-known to places you may have overlooked.
18 Mar 2025 - 4:15PM
Art
Hong Kong’s corporate culture challenged in defiant art show
‘Re:Urgent’ is a satirical art exhibition being held at Young Soy Gallery in Central featuring four office cubicles and a boss’ office.
18 Mar 2025 - 1:43PM
Art
When this 9-year-old tattoo artist grows up, he wants his own parlour
His dad started teaching him to tattoo to get him off his phone. Now Napat Mitmakorn wants to do it for a living when he grows up.
18 Mar 2025 - 4:14PM
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Hong Kong Picasso exhibition dares to be critical, but is it enough?
Picasso was a genius with a dark side, one the M+ museum’s show of his art with modern and contemporary Asian art only partly addresses.
17 Mar 2025 - 5:15PM
Detail from Picasso’s Portrait of Dora Maar. Photo: courtesy of Musée national Picasso-Paris
Books and literature
He made US$2.6 million and was only happy for 3 days. He explains why
Han Jung-soo achieved financial independence and retired in his 20s. But money ‘does not automatically lead to a happy ending’, he says.
17 Mar 2025 - 7:15AM
Art
Edvard Munch shows in London, US take viewers ‘beyond The Scream’
Norwegian painter’s portraits at London’s National Portrait Gallery show his social side, while at Harvard his woodblock prints are in focus.
16 Mar 2025 - 5:15PM
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Home-grown works in Hong Kong Art Week that you should see
Our favourite shows of work by Hong Kong artists that are on during Hong Kong Art Week, which runs from March 24 to 31.
16 Mar 2025 - 4:15PM
Ariel (1972) by Douglas Bland at Ping Pong 129 Gintonería in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, part of a retrospective of the late painter and one of several shows of work by artists in Hong Kong on during Hong Kong Art Week. Photo: Studio8ight
Architecture and design
Frank Lloyd Wright’s last house is finished, and you can stay there
6 decades after the American architect delivered plans for ‘Project #5909’ it has finally been built in Ohio. RiverRock is accepting bookings.
16 Mar 2025 - 4:42AM
Music
If music be the food of love, spray on. Conductor’s perfumery sideline
Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director describes his love for perfumery as well as how music and fragrance can evoke the same emotions.
15 Mar 2025 - 1:15PM
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Asia travel
Women designers showcase Laotian hand weaving in gorgeous garments
An exhibition at Laos’ Sofitel Luang Prabang hotel highlights how artisans are both preserving the traditional art form and modernising it.
15 Mar 2025 - 11:15AM
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Performing arts in Hong Kong
Bollywood and beyond, the Chinese dancer who loves Indian dance
Chau Hoi-shan, who was born in China and has the stage name Shanti, shares her passion for Indian culture, yoga and dance.
14 Mar 2025 - 11:27AM
China-born Hong Kong dancer Chau Hoi-shan, whose stage name is Shanti, performs an Indian dance at the Consulate General of India, Hong Kong. Photo: Consulate General of India, Hong Kong
Art
Post cartoonist’s Year of the Snake collection goes up for auction
Harry Harrison’s set of eight original watercolour and ink works takes cheeky digs at Hong Kong culture and politics; bidding ends March 18.
12 Mar 2025 - 6:16PM
Ukraine
An all-female King Lear? In wartime Ukraine actresses fill men’s roles
A regional theatre adapts to the realities of war, with actresses taking male roles as actors are called up to front lines of Russia war.
12 Mar 2025 - 4:15PM
Art
Artist’s unique takes on Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Sunflowers on show
The Van Gogh and Stedelijk museums in Amsterdam are holding a blockbuster exhibition of German artist Anselm Kiefer’s work.
11 Mar 2025 - 4:54PM
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ComplexCon Hong Kong announces Metro Boomin and Zico as 2025 headliners
A meeting of American and Asian hip-hop, the concerts also feature Quavo, Hong Kong favs MC Jin and Jace, and South Korea’s Changmo and B.I.
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