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Snoopy magnets are displayed as part of the exhibition to mark the Peanuts comic strip’s 75th anniversary. Photo: Reuters
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Fashion designers adore Snoopy. An exhibition reflects on 75 years of love

A Paris exhibition shows how designers embraced the comic-strip beagle. The rules to collaboration? Nothing X-rated, no smoking or drinking.

Books and literature

Japanese novel about a serial killer hailed as feminist overseas

Art

Art Week Shenzhen 2025 best exhibitions and events to visit

Tourism

Mammoths, bison in prehistoric cave art French keep under wraps

Hundreds of carvings of prehistoric animals, and women, line a cave in southwest France. For 4 weeks a year researchers are let in to map it.

An ancient engraving in Cussac cave, France. Photo: AFP
An ancient engraving in Cussac cave, France. Photo: AFP
Art

Artist Sarah Sze on her first Asia solo exhibition in Hong Kong

The celebrated US artist is showing her large, dramatic multimedia and layered artworks at Gagosian gallery in Hong Kong.

Art

Spider sculptor Louise Bourgeois’ inner world revealed in Hong Kong show

Hauser & Wirth’s exhibition of Louise Bourgeois is a deep dive into how the late artist’s fascination with the human body inspired her art.

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Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Rudolf Nureyev gala tribute in Hong Kong full of high points

Mariinsky Ballet’s Maria Khoreva shows why she is making waves, hometown hero Lam Chun-wing earns acclaim in tribute to a legend of dance.

Maria Khoreva and Jacopo Tissi in the Act III pas de deux from La Bayadère, part of Nureyev & Friends – A Ballet Gala Tribute, a programme of the 53rd Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: Tony Luk, courtesy of the Hong Kong Arts Festival
Maria Khoreva and Jacopo Tissi in the Act III pas de deux from La Bayadère, part of Nureyev & Friends – A Ballet Gala Tribute, a programme of the 53rd Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: Tony Luk, courtesy of the Hong Kong Arts Festival
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Painting attributed to a male artist for years was woman’s work

Lavinia Fontana, a leading woman painter of the Italian Renaissance, now credited with work a museum in Douai, France, believed was Flemish.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Beethoven meets space battles in ‘first manga opera’, coming to Hong Kong

Conductor Laurence Equilbey and her Insula Orchestra will perform Beethoven Wars: A Battle for Peace at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March.

Art

Is this our dystopian future? Hong Kong artist’s fantasy 2084

Not 1984, but 2084: Michelle Fung imagines a dystopian future in art that’s in part a response to consumerism and environmental woes.

Hong Kong Arctic 1 by Michelle Kuen Suet Fung, on show at Sin Sin Fine Art. Photo: Sin Sin Fine Art
Books and literature

Review | 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.

Yuko Tsushima. The The English translation of her final novel, which explores nuclear and personal nightmares, is out. Photo: New Directions Publishing
Yuko Tsushima. The The English translation of her final novel, which explores nuclear and personal nightmares, is out. Photo: New Directions Publishing
Art

How 3 dancers accomplished one of ballet’s most difficult feats

New York City Ballet’s Unity Phelan, Mira Nadon and Miriam Miller talk about the huge challenge of Swan Lakes’ White and Black Swan roles.

Art

Hong Kong ASMR show brings internet trend out from behind the screen

Since ASMR took the internet by storm during the pandemic it has been a private, virtual experience. Weird Sensation Feels Good changes that.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | 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.

Pianist Andras Schiff and the Cappella Andrea Barca on stage at Hong Kong Cultural Centre on March 18, 2025, where they played an all-Mozart concert as part of the 53rd Hong Kong Arts Festival. Photo: HKAF
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.

(From left) Lenny Kravitz, Woody Harrelson and Josh Hutcherson in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Harrison plays Haymitch Abernathy in the movies adapted from Suzanne Collins’ novels. Her latest explores Abernathy’s youth. Photo: Lionsgate
(From left) Lenny Kravitz, Woody Harrelson and Josh Hutcherson in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Harrison plays Haymitch Abernathy in the movies adapted from Suzanne Collins’ novels. Her latest explores Abernathy’s youth. Photo: Lionsgate
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | 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.

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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.

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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.

Hungary-born British pianist and conductor Andras Schiff had been slated to appear with the Philadelphia Orchestra as both conductor and soloist in works by Bach and Mozart, and in pure orchestral pieces by Bartok and Kodaly, on May 7, 8 and 9 at the Marian Anderson Hall. Photo: Yutaka Suzuki
Hungary-born British pianist and conductor Andras Schiff had been slated to appear with the Philadelphia Orchestra as both conductor and soloist in works by Bach and Mozart, and in pure orchestral pieces by Bartok and Kodaly, on May 7, 8 and 9 at the Marian Anderson Hall. Photo: Yutaka Suzuki
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.

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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.

Art

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.

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.

Detail from a work by Salvador Dail in the Dali­ Paris museum. Photo: TNS
Detail from a work by Salvador Dail in the Dali­ Paris museum. Photo: TNS
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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.

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.

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Review | 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.

Detail from Picasso’s Portrait of Dora Maar. Photo: courtesy of Musée national Picasso-Paris
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