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Art Basel

Beyond Art Basel Hong Kong: free events to check out during Arts Month

As well as ticketed events Art Basel and Art Central, free happenings this Art Week include talks about the role of tech and AI in the art world, installations, workshops and experimental music shows.

Hong Kong economy

More galleries from Middle East taking part in Hong Kong’s Art Central

Hong Kong economy

Explainer | HKwalls 2025: what not to miss at Hong Kong’s street art festival

Art

Then & Now | Hong Kong’s rich history of art clubs dates back to the 1850s

Art clubs and societies have helped shape the city’s vibrant and diverse cultural landscape, since the 19th century.

Secretary for District Administration Donald Liao Poon-huai (left) at an exhibition in City Hall, in 1985. Photo: SCMP Archives
Hong Kong society

K-pop group NJZ tells fans it will take break from shows after Hong Kong concert

Group formerly known as NewJeans says it will pause all activities ‘out of respect for the court’s decisions’ amid legal dispute with former agency.

Art

Showtime: 4 unmissable art exhibitions to keep you cultured

Not-to-be-missed artists about to open in Hong Kong include Emma McIntyre, Lynne Drexler, Louise Bourgeois and Emma Webster.

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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
Chinese culture

Video | Sunset for Hong Kong’s Sunbeam Theatre

The church group that purchased the theatre plans to convert the building into a community centre.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

What other films did A Chinese Ghost Story’s Tony Ching Siu-tung direct?

From a film starring Kelly Chen and Donnie Yen to an Indiana Jones rip-off with Jet Li, 4 of Tony Ching’s lesser-known productions.

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Books and literature

Language Matters | Poetry ‘a luxury we cannot afford’? Singapore and world have moved on

Lee Kuan Yew’s maxim that poetry was an unaffordable luxury was of its time. These days it is widely appreciated, and not just in Singapore.

One of the poems displayed in trains in Singapore under the “Poems on the MRT” programme. Photo: Facebook/National Arts Council Singapore
Art

This week in PostMag: Art everywhere throughout Hong Kong, European museums tour

With Art Basel and Art Central on the horizon, we speak with artists such as Takashi Murakami, as well as hit some European art destinations.

Adaptation on Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo: Japonisme Reconsidered – Temple Gardens, Nippori. Photo: ©2024-2025 Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Art

Art March is taking over Hong Kong. Here is what you shouldn’t miss

The Post covers what’s being offered across the city, including exhibitions, installations, hands-on experiences and discussions.

Art

Conversation of creativity: Picasso masterpieces meet modern Asian works

A Hong Kong exhibition puts the Spanish painter and sculptor alongside some of Asia’s finest in a groundbreaking artistic dialogue to try and reveal the man behind the myth.

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s intangible cultural heritage to be celebrated in new annual initiative

Different types of craftsmanship, performances, traditions and rituals among activities to be showcased across the month of June.

Dragon boat racing is expected to be among the activities highlighted when the Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Month initiative makes its debut in June. Photo: Dickson Lee
Art

Picasso, Warhol and more land in Hong Kong for art month

With Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central about to open, here’s our rundown of this year’s highlights.

Art Central is featuring specially commissioned work by Hong Kong artist Nadim Abbas. Photo: Pak Chai/ Art Central
Hong Kong society

Letters | Dim sum: a Hong Kong cultural icon calling out for a makeover

Readers discuss reinventing the dim sum dining experience, and how the city can present a welcoming face to tourists.

From our archives

When Hong Kong announced the city’s first open-air theatre

In 1983, the curtain was raised on the Ko Shan Road park and theatre, which took two years and $50 million to build.

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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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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
Hong Kong society

Jimmy Lo, Hong Kong lyricist behind popular Cantopop classics, dies at 75

‘My father has passed away in his sleep … he passed away peacefully,’ daughter Thalea Lo writes on social media.

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This museum director built her life on art, music and islands

Suhanya Raffel, museum director of M+ in Hong Kong, has a passion for building world-class institutions, and despite identifying as ‘many things’, is a Hongkonger at heart.

Hong Kong society

Letters | Hong Kong’s historic buildings can serve as strategic assets

Readers discuss the preservation of the city’s built environment, and how an anti-phishing measure can be strengthened.

Pedestrians walk past Lui Seng Chun, a tong lau in Sham Shui Po that now houses a Chinese medicine and healthcare centre used by the Hong Kong Baptist University, in August 2014. Photo: May Tse
Cantonese culture

Opinion | Cantonese opera need not be popular to be part of Hong Kong heritage

Preserving the theatre means preserving a piece of the city’s cultural identity, affirming Cantonese opera as part of our heritage.

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Theatre fans wait to enter the Sunbeam Theatre in North Point ahead of its final show on March 3. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong

Editorial | ‘Uncle Four’ a true Hong Kong success story

Tycoon Lee Shau-kee built a business empire and fortune, while giving back to the local and mainland community.

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong’s John Lee urges Kai Tak Sports Park to boost crisis management

Chief Executive John Lee says some arrangements at the newly opened venue have caused ‘issues’.

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.

Hong Kong-based British artist Dominic Johnson-Hill sits with his installation in the “boss’ office” at “Re:Urgent”, an exhibition at Young Soy Gallery in Central, Hong Kong. Photo: AFP
Art

Discover Bouie Choi’s intricate wood paintings at Art Basel Hong Kong

Choi’s intricate paintings on reclaimed wood are inspired by folk legends and scenes of Hong Kong as well as the artist’s childhood memories.

Bouie Choi in her studio at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, in Shek Kip Mei. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s Sean Lau named best actor at Asian Film Awards for role in Papa

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, set in the Kowloon Walled City, wins best editing and best production design.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Riley Ip’s 3 best Hong Kong films, with stars such as Shu Qi and Eric Tsang

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Riley Ip made films featuring stars such as Takeshi Kaneshiro and Anthony Wong. Here are the 3 best.

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