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9 September, 2024
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2025 is the Year of the Wood Snake, as celebrated in this limited edition plaque by Royal Selangor. Photo: Royal Selangor

How to prepare your home for the Year of the Snake with positive feng shui

Feng shui designer Thierry Chow shares top tips for arranging your personal space in time for the Lunar New Year.

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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

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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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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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Belgium

Restoring Rubens painting a tall order for Antwerp museum team

A painting taller than an adult giraffe is undergoing restoration at a museum in Belgium, requiring yoga-like contortions from conservators.

Hong Kong

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Fame and celebrity

Who is CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s ex Benjamin Maisani?

Maisani moved to New York in 1994 and studied art; he met Cooper in 2009 and they welcomed sons in 2020 and 2022. Despite splitting up in 2018 they still live together, Cooper saying they are ‘family’.

Anderson Cooper and Benjamin Maisani continue to live together. Photo: @carlitoscines/Instagram
Books and literature

When Brit art world provocateurs Gilbert & George’s visited China

It was the early 1990s, the mainland was opening up, and coming in hot were the 2 biggest troublemakers in British art. The man who got them there tells all in his new book.

Emmanuel Macron

Mona Lisa to get own room as Louvre museum undergoes major renovation

The Paris landmark will be expanded, and special tickets will be sold to visitors who want to see Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece.

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VR and AR

Inside Beijing-based artist Cao Fei’s ‘My City is Yours’ exhibition in Sydney

The retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a cyber-city trip where reality meets the virtual in the glow of nostalgia.

Artist Cao Fei with Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, co-founder of Beau Architects, for the “My City is Yours” exhibition at Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photo: Diana Panuccio/Art Gallery of New South Wales
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In Korean artist’s ‘Black Paintings’, the unseen is just as important

New ‘Black Paintings’ are among works at Hong Kong’s Yuz Flow by Lee Jinju, who uses traditional art techniques to convey contemporary ideas.

Crime

Theft in Netherlands of ancient golden helmet leaves Romania distraught

The 2,500-year-old Cotofenesti helmet, one Romania’s most revered national treasures, was stolen from Drents Museum.

Chinese artifacts

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.

Yam Man-hong, a stone seal carver at Kingstone Engraving in Hong Kong. Photo: Dickson Lee
Malaysia

Lithuanian artist sues AirAsia over unauthorised use of Penang mural

Zacharevic said the airline’s compensation offer failed to ‘reflect the value’ of his work, accusing the company of exploiting his creations.

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An AirAsia aircraft featuring Ernest Zacharevic’s artwork. Photo: Instagram/ernestzacharevic
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: from Little Bao chef May Chow to Gilbert & George in China

Chef Chow talks about what’s next for her after Little Bao restaurant, a new look at the provocative British artist duo’s exhibitions on the mainland in 1993, and a trek through Ladakh’s Markha Valley.

Ukraine war

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.

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
Lunar New Year

Tai Kwun’s InnerGlow festival lights up Chinese New Year

The extravaganza features stunning 3D art projections by Hung Keung and other emerging artists, celebrating Hong Kong’s visual identity.

InnerGlow 3D projection show at Tai Kwun Parade Ground in Hong Kong serves as a platform for showcasing local artistic talent. Photo: Tai Kwun
France

France’s iconic Louvre museum, in dire state, cries for help

The Paris landmark that houses masterpieces like the Mona Lisa is struggling with leaks, ageing buildings and overcrowded spaces.

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.

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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.

A dressage performance at the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art. Photo: AFP
Greater Bay Area

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.

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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.

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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American photographer Austin Bell’s aerial photos of Hong Kong’s basketball courts capture vibrant colours and geometric shapes found painted on many across the city - details that are difficult to notice at ground level. Photo: Austin Bell
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.

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
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.

David Schwimmer’s ex-wife Zoë Buckman is an artist. Photos: IMDB, @zoebuckman/Instagram
What to do in Hong Kong

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

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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.

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