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Fionnuala McHugh

American visual artist Sarah Morris’ new film ‘ETC’ – which is being screened on the facade of M+ until March 17 – displays her unique artistic language in offering an outsider’s depiction of Hong Kong.

Everyday food items reproduced faithfully in oil paints but placed in settings you wouldn’t expect – in a dragon boat, on a street – mark still-life artist Chang Ya-chin’s work, on show in Hong Kong.

Holding his second solo exhibition in Hong Kong, at David Zwirner, German artist Neo Rauch talks about his spat with art historian Wolfgang Ullrich and gaining control of his paintings’ characters.

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Design Trust Futures Studio has dotted micro-parks across Hong Kong with one goal in mind: creating communities. We meet Marisa Yiu, its tireless champion.

A conference in Shenzhen about Arnold Schoenberg saw the Chinese premiere of Tod Machover’s opera about the 20th century Austrian Jewish composer who pioneered atonal music and his exile in America.

The Regent Hotel, with its unrivalled harbour views, was the place to witness Hong Kong history – such as the 1997 handover. Renamed the InterContinental in 2001, it has reclaimed its original name.

Hong Kong is not lacking in shopping centres, but the latest, The Pedder Arcade, is unlike any other. On the fifth floor of the Pedder Building in Central, it is the passion project of Mark Cho.

Artist Konstantin Bessmertny and his concert pianist wife Gala’s home in Coloane, Macau, which they first saw in 2004, is a testament to marital harmony – part art studio, part cosy retreat.

With his Chater House salon a victim of redevelopment, hairstylist to the rich and famous Kim Robinson has decided the universe is hinting he should quit while he’s ahead. He recalls good and bad times.

When Chris Hall’s mother said ‘buy property’, he didn’t argue but bought Chinese robes too, and his Hong Kong home houses a world-class collection. He tells Fionnuala McHugh about a childhood spent continent-hopping.

The M+ museum of visual culture in Hong Kong’s exhibition Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China, celebrating Chinese artist and early influencer Song Huai-kuei, feels somewhat overdone.

Now showing in Hong Kong, New York-based Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero reveals how his ‘magical’ church studio changed him and why his grandmother is such an important part of his work.

Hard-partying Hong Kong photo artist Basil Pao talks about filming The Last Emperor, travelling with Monty Python’s Michael Palin, and his new book, a retrospective of his long career.

‘Hong Kong’s first impresario’, Harry Odell, who got The Beatles and Cliff Richard to perform in the city, is brought to life in a meticulously researched documentary that honours a larger-than-life entrepreneur.

Todd Sears, the CEO and founder of Out Leadership, the global LGBTQ business network, talks to Fionnuala McHugh about play-acting, letter writing and working as an openly gay man.

Architect and artist William Lim and his wife, interior designer Lavina, have lovingly restored his parents’ Mid-Levels home, preserving their legacy with a respectful, delightfully retro renovation.

Writer Fionnuala McHugh has flirted with owning a smartphone but never committed. She bought a Nokia dumb phone but mostly uses it for texting, and has an occasional fling with an off-network Samsung.

In May 1923, Chinese bandits hijacked a luxury train and took foreign and local passengers hostage, resulting in a diplomatic crisis and the fall of the government of the day.

With his first solo exhibition in Asia about to open in Hong Kong, American artist Rashid Johnson paints us a personal portrait of his artistic journey as we look at his art over the years.

Klaus Heymann, founder of Naxos - best known for its classical music catalogue - talks about stealing from a US army base, arguments in Hong Kong and always being ahead of the curve.

Five masters of traditional crafts in Hong Kong were matched with 13 younger artisans to create beautiful pieces for a new exhibition hosted by Crafts on Peel – and sustain traditions.

Stanley Wong, otherwise known as anothermountainman, gives his irreverent spin on the English language, harmony and love, and talks about his latest art exhibition, ‘on hong kong’.

Macau-born, Melbourne-based filmmaker Clara Law talks about the poetic quest for truth and beauty that defines her career, and why she never felt completely at home in Hong Kong.

Oscar-winning Chinese-American composer Tan Dun opens up about his new role as Hong Kong’s Ambassador for Cultural Promotion, and his new ‘immersive opera’.

An American pilot explains the passion and patience required to renovate his latest flat at Sea Ranch, that remote but familiar resort on Lantau Island which was left to fester 40 years ago.

Veteran Hong Kong designer Alan Chan recently sifted through his substantial collection and paired 1,000 artefacts with the work they inspired. He tells Fionnuala McHugh about a career as yet unfulfilled.

Losing his parents and best friend led Simon Westcott, former publisher of Lonely Planet and owner of the Luxe City Guides, to a career switch and ‘solving different problems’, he tells Fionnuala McHugh.