West Kowloon Cultural District

Letters to the Editor, May 6, 2013

6 May 2013

Your detailed coverage of the plight of Hong Kong's urban and rural trees highlights the need for urgent action if we are to save at least some of our natural heritage.

2:55AM

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Letters to the Editor, May 5, 2013

5 May 2013

I read with interest what Zhang Dejiang, No 3 on the Communist Party's seven-man Politburo Standing Committee, said to the Business and Professionals Alliance delegation in Beijing on April 27....

2:51AM

M+ chief Lars Nittve vows museum won't steer clear of politics

4 May 2013

The West Kowloon Cultural District has taken centre stage again this week, courtesy of a display of giant inflatables. But a document that will have implications long after the bubble has burst on...

5:49AM

Artist Stanley Wong Ping-pui donates 36 works to M+ museum

2 May 2013

Designer and artist Stanley Wong Ping-pui has made the largest-ever donation of his works to the planned M+ museum, and he will donate more. The trans-disciplinary creative personality who slides...

5:09AM

Museum gets 'kissing guards' from first local art donor

2 May 2013

The West Kowloon museum has received its first donation from a Hong Kong collector, who hopes to challenge people's ideas about art and politics with a performance work featuring two security...

5:09AM

Giant inflatable Rubber Duck is now Hong Kong tourist attraction

30 Apr 2013

The inflatable sculptures dotting the waterfront of West Kowloon have inspired plenty of debate - and now a local travel agency is selling package tours to see them. Sunflower Travel is offering a...

9:58AM

Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

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5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

7:12AM

Hong Kong does not need a culture tsar to define what is art

Pro-Beijing lawmaker Chan Kam-lam may have unwittingly triggered an interesting debate over his warning to the West Kowloon Cultural District that any artworks with indecent, insulting or...

6:50AM

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New cultural district to inflate interest with bouncy Stonehenge

After several years of waiting we are pleased to see there are signs of movement at the West Kowloon Cultural District. The great awakening will take the form of a full-size inflatable replica of...

5:16AM

Talking points

Nobel winner's brother-in-law on trial

3:51AM

CULTURE

Artist Lee Kit mulls how to put Hong Kong's best foot forward

M+, the West Kowloon Cultural District's upcoming visual culture museum, will mark its debut on the international art scene this summer, with an exhibition at the Venice Biennale that the museum...

10:15AM

Talking points

The public gets a chance to listen in on the latest discussions on the development of the West Kowloon Cultural District.

3:18AM

ARTS

Grand reopening of the Rijksmuseum

The general-director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Wim Pijbes, can relate to the headaches afflicting the mammoth West Kowloon Cultural District project.

10:09AM