Sima Taparia, aka Sima Auntie, is the star of Netflix show Indian Matchmaking. She talks to the Post about helping young people find love, her own marriage and why she always stops for photos with fans.
Chinese contemporary artist Bai Ming intends to show that Chinese art is still relevant in today’s world at a major retrospective of mostly ceramics at the National Museum of Modern Art in Rome.
The New York Met’s exhibition of Harlem Renaissance art features 160 works, most by black artists, that depict daily life in black communities such as Harlem from the 1920s to 1940s.
A children’s book, My Extra-Special Aunty, uses illustrations by Hong Kong domestic helpers from the Philippines to show the ‘meaningful connections’ helpers have with the families they work for.
In 1992, eight years after his first visit, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping returned to the rapidly growing Shenzhen special economic zone whose transformation he had orchestrated.
A Sham Tseng flat, in the New Territories, was renovated with the owners’ cats in mind – think bespoke feline furniture, scratch-proof flooring paired with hidden storage and Japanese-style decor.
Seventy local buildings and urban spaces designed by Hong Kong architects are celebrated in Raymond Fung’s Untold Stories: Hong Kong Architecture, with a focus on public amenities.
A writer on HBO series Succession has created a new ending for Puccini’s unfinished opera Turandot. Susan Soon He Stanton talks about updating the tale of the murderous Chinese princess.
New York’s Metropolitan Opera hosted four women conductors in one landmark week. They talk about their journeys in a ‘very conservative’ industry, the progress they see, and the work still to be done.
Hong Kong contemporary artist Wong Kit-yi reveals how a residency with legendary minimalist Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation taught her the importance of challenging herself.
Byzantine icons on whose golden backgrounds are painted scenes from social media. A response to a Caravaggio altarpiece about mercy. Chinese artist Yu Hong appropriates religious imagery for her art.
Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas fair is a shot in the arm for Taiwan’s collector-driven art scene, with this year’s event inspiring other art institutions to coordinate for the island’s first ‘art week’.
Graffiti by the self-proclaimed “King of Kowloon”, who died in 2007 at the age of 85, used to be considered vandalism and was covered and painted over. Now a new generation of visual artists is taking inspiration from Tsang’s work.
Chat art museum at The Mills in Hong Kong celebrates its fifth anniversary with ‘Factory of Tomorrow’, an exhibition of works made with textiles that chart the city’s evolution and imagine its future.
Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass’ haunting 2007 stage production of Cohen’s Book of Longing is being staged in Hong Kong. Director Mo Lai Yan-chi talks of her fascination with Cohen’s life and work.
The owner of a Hong Kong micro-apartment wanted all the trappings of a bigger home – including a tub – in the first property she owned. Two young interior designers made it happen.
Hong Kong is hosting Germany-based Christian charity GBA Ships’ floating library. With over 2,000 books, it aims to promote literacy and ‘empower people with knowledge’.
Andrew Chan, artistic director of Hong Kong experimental theatre company Alice Theatre Laboratory, explains how Einstürzende Neubauten’s industrial album Halber Mensch changed his life.
Austrian artist Andreas Joska-Sutanto has been cutting up Hitler’s Mein Kampf letter by letter for the past eight years and recycling them to make a cookbook, with recipes for pizza, tiramisu and other dishes.
Why do Chinese fisherfolk celebrate Tin Hau in an annual festival ? Once upon a time there was a girl called Lin Mo, who became a deity after she learned how to predict the future and saved people from the sea.
French conductor Philippe Fournier will watch over a two-day conducting master class organised by the co-founders of Hong Kong ensemble Le Gai, in an effort to fill a gap in local music education.