Arts & Culture | South China Morning Post

The swift rise in the number of contemporary art fairs in Hong Kong is akin to the proliferation of cupcake stores.

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Making noise - the intrinsic protest of rock bands in Beijing

If there is a Brooklyn in Beijing, it is the Gulou district. Funky western-style coffee shops line the teeming main road, alongside the street stalls, the construction works, the scattering of...

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Pedal to the metal for Fast & Furious film franchise

While the film still took in US$158 globally, the lack of original cast members was telling; this was a series running on empty.

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Art fair experts share why hotels make good gallery spaces

Hotel art fairs are the antithesis of the "white cube" concept for a gallery space, and some consider it decidedly unfashionable. But proponents see it as a convenient and cost-efficient model.

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Homecoming queen: Emmy the Great

One rainy day late last month, Londoner Emma-Lee Moss, better known as recording artist Emmy the Great, was back in Hong Kong where she was born and learnt her first instrument.

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Playwright wins Pulitzer with ponderings on identity

There are some people you feel you've known all your life. Ayad Akhtar, the actor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright whose debut play Disgraced has just won the Pulitzer prize for drama, is...

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Blue Notes: 'Cotton Mouth Man' by James Cotton

In the words of Brownie McGhee and Muddy Waters, The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock and Roll.

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Postcard: New York

"Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions", a 28-film series on show at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) until June 1, shows the mainland's documentary filmmakers have been producing...

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NYC artist’s secret photos raise privacy issues

In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table...

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Automatic for the people

The front door sees you coming and opens automatically, lighting your way to the kitchen and switching on the kettle. Your most-watched television channel appears on the screen while a hot bath...

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SOCIETY JAMES WHITTLE

Society - May 17, 2013

Occasions, one of the best-connected PR and events firms in town, started its 25th anniversary celebrations this year with a photo exhibition in Times Square titled "Occasions x Fame Glory".

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Incubator company Nest gives budding entrepreneurs their big chance

It's Saturday in Sheung Wan and Simon Squibb is explaining the rules of the game for the third time this morning - there will be 15 minutes for the pitch, during which the judges stay silent,...

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‘Gatsby’ stars grace Cannes ahead of grand opening

Stars of The Great Gatsby rolled into Cannes for the European premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s controversial 3D epic, which was to kick off the world’s most prestigious film festival late Wednesday.

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