Arts & Music

An image shot by Hong Kong photographer Leung Yat-ting, who goes by the name Leungmo. Her work has graced the pages of fashion magazines Vogue HK,  Grazia and Elle Men.. Photo courtesy of Leungmo

Shooting star: the rapid rise of Hong Kong photographer Leungmo

As one of Hong Kong’s most in-demand photographers, Leung Yat-ting, aka Leungmo, has worked with Adidas, Vogue and more. She talks about her inspirations and offers advice to young photographers.

15 Mar 2024 - 12:45PM
Rising rockers Whitt’s End are part of the line-up at Hong Kong’s first Jungle Island Music Festival, set to rock Lantau from March 15 to 17, 2024. Photo courtesy: Jungle Island Music Festival

Hong Kong’s first Jungle Island Music Festival to be held on Lantau Island

Hong Kong’s first Jungle Island Music Festival, set to rock Lantau between March 15 and 17, has music and community at its heart, with 50 DJs and 10 local bands providing the soundtrack.

12 Mar 2024 - 5:24PM
The map of the whole of China from Martino Martini’s Novus Atlas Sinensis, published in Amsterdam in 1655. A new compilation of 127 maps of China produced between 1584 and 1735 shows how mapmakers helped paint a – somewhat – accurate picture of China during this period.

How European maps helped paint a picture of China in the age of exploration

A new book containing reproductions of 127 printed European maps of Ming and Qing China from 1584 to 1735 reveals how they helped paint a reasonably accurate picture of the Middle Kingdom for the first time.

10 Mar 2024 - 5:15PM
A disco single by Frankie Kao. As Taiwan’s younger generation dust off disco records from the 1970s and ’80s, so, too, are scholars looking into how the island came to embrace a Western music genre at a time when even dancing in public was illegal.

Taiwan’s forgotten disco era and how it changed the course of Mandopop

As Taiwan’s young generation dust off disco records from the 1970s and 80s, scholars consider how the island came to embrace a Western music genre at a time when even dancing in public was illegal.

10 Mar 2024 - 7:45AM
Stevedores at the wharf, circa 1900s. Stevedores have long played a crucial role as an essential workforce in the freight transport industry. From the 19th century, they toiled daily in harsh weather conditions, shouldering goods and shuttling between barges, ocean liners, and bustling docks, relying on crude gangplanks. Photo courtsey of Mr Dennis George Crow Dennis George Crow

Across Victoria Harbour exhibition is a window to Hong Kong’s maritime past

Across Victoria Harbour, an exhibition at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, shows the harbour’s role in shaping Hong Kong, through old photos, interviews, models and more.

11 Mar 2024 - 4:04PM
Fresh from his Grammy win last month, R&B producer Khris Riddick-Tynes reflects on a sterling career that has seen him work with the likes of Ariana Grande, Toni Braxton and Tia Ray. Photo: Getty Images

He works with Ariana Grande and wins Grammys – but his early music ‘sucked’

Fresh from his Grammy win last month, A-list producer Khris Riddick-Tynes reflects on a sterling career that has seen him work with the likes of Ariana Grande, Toni Braxton and Tia Ray.

4 Mar 2024 - 7:45PM
The Health, Welfare and Food Bureau and the Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong will co-organise the first International Festival of Inclusive Arts (IFIA) in Hong Kong from December 2 to 10. The festival aims to provide opportunities for people with different challenges and abilities to collaborate in the arts, fostering a harmonious and inclusive society. The Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Dr York Chow (fourth right), and the Chairman of the Arts with the Disabled Association, Ms Ida Lam (fourth left), are pictured with artists of different abilities taking part in the collaging of IFIA logo at the press conference today (October 5).

How the Hong Kong Festival of Arts with the Disabled changed my life

Ida Lam worked on the first Festival of Arts with the Disabled, in 1986, and was moved by the way it championed people with mental and physical disabilities, who often faced discrimination in the city.

1 Mar 2024 - 3:46PM
Shanghai-based rapper and “fortune-teller” Feezy – of hip-hop trio Straight Fire Gang – offers his predictions for the future of the genre in China. Photo: Freezy

Chinese rapper Feezy on ‘woke’ hip hop and his new album The Weatherman

Shanghai-based rapper and ‘fortune-teller’ Feezy – of hip-hop trio Straight Fire Gang – offers his predictions for the future of the genre in China.

24 Feb 2024 - 5:15PM
A vintage print of “Muhammad Ali Boxing Underwater” on display in New York. Photo: Alamy

How a photo of Muhammad Ali underwater inspired a Hong Kong swim charity CEO

The founder of Splash Foundation, a Hong Kong charity that provides swimming lessons to people in low-income communities, reveals how the iconic 1961 photo ‘Muhammad Ali Boxing Underwater’ inspired her.

21 Feb 2024 - 5:15PM
A man holds a sign professing his love for Cantonese at a Hong Kong rally against Mandarin being promoted to the detriment of the dialect widely spoken in the city. Unesco’s International Mother Language Day, celebrated on February 21 each year, recognises the value of linguistic diversity.  Photo: AFP

Language Matters | Unesco mother tongue day is a nod to language’s link to sustainability

Curiously, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals do not explicitly include language. Unesco’s International Mother Language Day recognises the links between language and sustainability.

17 Feb 2024 - 2:15PM
Guānyīn, by Dickie Fowler, aka Dickie Suzuki, is part of the photographer’s new exhibition, “The Art of Celestials”, at the HKCACC Gallery, which focuses on the multitude of abandoned statues of deities and demons  found in Hong Kong. Photo: Dickie Suzuki

Photos starring abandoned statues of deities and demons reveal their magic

A photographer who is showing his photos of abandoned statues in an exhibition at the HKCACC Gallery travelled to temples and makeshift shrines across Hong Kong to snap them.

19 Feb 2024 - 10:31AM
A still from Years of Denial’s performance presented by Entropy at Sheung Wan’s Mihn club. Photo: Entropy

The Hong Kong DJ bringing a taste of European industrial sounds to the city

With acts like Years of Denial and Soft Crash, DJ Nanogram, with his party collective Entropy, is introducing European industrial techno sounds to Hong Kong, with his next club night later this month.

16 Feb 2024 - 5:15PM
A freight train passes over a gabled bridge in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan province, southwest China, known as the Renzi Bridge and designed by French engineer Paul Bourdon, in July 2017. Photo: Wang Lu

High, wide and handsome: drone photos of trains in China’s varied landscapes

A peripatetic drone photographer has focused his passion on documenting China’s vast rail network from a bird’s-eye perspective.

16 Feb 2024 - 1:03PM
Jet Li as Danny in a still from Unleashed. The Chinese actor received critical acclaim for his performance alongside heavyweights including Morgan Freeman in the 2005 action film, but it didn’t make him a Hollywood staple. Photo: Universal Pictures

Why Jet Li’s Danny the dog role in Unleashed didn’t help him crack Hollywood

Jet Li received praise for his role as Danny the dog in Luc Besson’s gritty 2005 action movie. While he shone among co-stars such as Morgan Freeman, it didn’t help the martial arts actor crack Hollywood.

12 Feb 2024 - 8:17AM
Founder of Rice Adrianna Lee. Photo:  Xiaomei Chen

Profile | ‘Guerilla’ live music promoter gives underground Hong Kong bands a platform

The founder of live gig promoter Rice, Adrianna Lee Ka-yee, tells Post Magazine about her mission to bring niche music to the Hong Kong masses.

11 Feb 2024 - 2:07PM
Detail from a Year of the Dragon paper cutting by Hong Kong resident Nick Tsao, architect and paper cutter. Photo: Instagram/@tsaoao and @tsaoao.design

Architect shows his knife skills in second career making paper cuttings

Nick Tsao tells Kate Whitehead about the passion he saw interning at Foster + Partners that made him want to be an architect, learning traditional Chinese paper cutting and looking for ways to update it.

7 Feb 2024 - 7:15AM
Artist Chang Dai-chien was acclaimed for a wide-ranging oeuvre that included gongbi (a realist Chinese painting technique involving meticulous brushwork), traditional Chinese ink wash, and splashed-colour paintings (called pocai) reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism. Photo: Zhang Weimin

After ‘Picasso of the East’ left China, his life was a mystery. Until now

Chang Dai-chien, or Zhang Daqian, was one of China’s most famous 20th-century artists, but little is known of his life after he left his homeland in 1949. A new documentary aims to fill in the gaps.

15 Feb 2024 - 12:03PM
A mermaid sculpture sits in front of a fairy castle at Banksy’s Dismaland amusement park parody in Weston-super-Mare, England, in 2015. Photo: Getty Images

‘The best show I’ve been to’: Banksy’s amusement park parody Dismaland

Tim Yu, founder and director of Hong Kong contemporary art space JPS Gallery, explains how Banksy’s so-called bemusement park Dismaland in the UK transformed his view of exhibitions.

31 Jan 2024 - 5:15PM
Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara in New York in 2009. Photo: Yoshitomo Nara

‘Looking for my childhood’: Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara on why he paints

Japanese contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara, whose Knife Behind Back sold for US$24.9 million at auction in 2019, talks to Kate Whitehead about his journey and influences, and why he isn’t driven by money.

29 Jan 2024 - 7:15AM
Singer-songwriter Tia Ray talks about her new album and why she wanted to step out of her comfort zone for her upcoming, English-language release. Photo: Tia Ray

Profile | R&B singer Tia Ray: my music isn’t ‘fast food’, it takes time to understand

Singer-songwriter Tia Ray tells Post Magazine about the inspiration behind her new album, Allure, and why she wanted to step out of her comfort zone for her coming English-language release.

26 Jan 2024 - 7:15AM