Late one night outside Somerset House in Quarry Bay, Victor Ash stands on a hydraulic lift platform, spraying paint on the wall of the second-floor balcony.
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- Oct 3, 2013
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Payal Uttam looks at Frank Gehry's Opus Hong Kong, which promises to stun with both its looks and its prices.
The thumb piano, or kalimba, may go back thousands of years but in the hands of new media musician Leung Kei-cheuk, also known as GayBird, this ancient African musical instrument becomes something...
Gone are the days when the summer holidays left parents bereft of activities to keep their children's boredom at bay.
Ilse Crawford is a perfectionist. She's been stuck in traffic for an hour, but despite the schedule chaos, she insists on a change of clothes. As an interior designer, aesthetics play a key role...
Visual artist Caroline Mak leads a double life. Since 2010, in addition to maintaining her art practice, she has been running a successful beverage company, Brooklyn Soda Works, with her boyfriend...
Opinion
China has a strong presence at this year's Venice Biennale art festival, with several artists featured in the main exhibition, national pavilions and side events.
The swift rise in the number of contemporary art fairs in Hong Kong is akin to the proliferation of cupcake stores.
UK's problems down to Blair, not Thatcher
I refer to Kevin Rafferty's article ("Britain's economy labours in the shadow of Thatcher's none-too-splendid legacy", April 20).
It will take about another week for the giant inflatable Rubber Duck to sail into Victoria Harbour, but its creator has made an early appearance to appease the city’s frenzied media.
Hong Kong universities are now gearing up for the Research Assessment Exercise, imported from Margaret Thatcher's Britain. Academics are required to choose their four "best" publications over the...
Designer Freeman Lau Siu-hong is known for taking everyday objects and giving them a new spin, altering our perception of the seemingly mundane.
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