A run of Shakespeare’s King Lear inspired a restaurant in the National Theatre of Korea to create a meal with dishes symbolising the main characters. The play has ended, but the menu is still going.
Steve McCurry, the award-winning photographer behind ‘Afghan Girl’, talks about celebrating selfless dedication beyond religion in his new book, Devotion, and blending into sacred situations.
China’s largest piano maker Pearl River is trying to make headway globally and rival the likes of Yamaha and Steinway with its Kayserburg, ‘an ultimate piano’ for the international market.
Chinese illustrator Carina Zhang has already used her art to help traumatised children. Now focusing on becoming a psychotherapist, she wants to teach creative skills to disadvantaged groups.
Named orchestra of the year in 2019, HK Phil planned a tour to capitalise on the accolade, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed it. Five years later it finally set off. Post Magazine went along for the ride.
A testament to the Chinese love of clever wordplay, Chinese restaurants in Britain often have witty or pun-tastic Chinese names that are like encoded in-jokes for the diaspora.
Koo Jeong-a, who was photographed for Loewe’s autumn/winter 2023 campaign and is the artist behind South Korea’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, talks about the process behind her ‘Odorama Cities’.
Hong Kong artist Kingsley Ng is asking pet owners to donate their animals’ fur so it can be made into giant balls for his exhibition at the Centre for Heritage Arts and Textile at The Mills in Tsuen Wan.
Noh Jae-myung, 33, has already amassed nearly 300 artworks by emerging artists. He talks about launching a new art fair, called Art OnO, in Seoul, with booths significantly cheaper than usual.
Hong Kong human rights lawyer and charity founder Patricia Ho explains how The Dive, by New Zealand-born Veronica Green, continues to empower her years after she fell in love with it at an art fair.
Leo1Bee, the artist behind conceptual record Wilderness, talks about his influences, love of R&B and why his latest album is his critique of society that has been a long time in the making.
What have a London gay cruising hotspot and Hong Kong’s sacred Lam Tseun Wishing Tree got in common? Get down to artist Trevor Yeung’s ‘Soft Breath’ art exhibition at Para Site to find out.
US cellist Zlatomir Fung, who has Bulgarian and Chinese ancestry and studied at New York’s Juilliard, make his Hong Kong debut, his grandfather’s birthplace, playing with local pianist Rachel Cheung.
The Legend of Lanling, a new full-length production by the Hong Kong Dance Company, tells the tale of a real-life hero of the Northern Qi dynasty using a blend of Chinese dance and martial arts.
In collaboration with the French National Library, Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture is hosting an exhibition of 280 powerful black-and-white photos, its first show dedicated to the medium.
Romania’s Jilava prison is ‘a place where you can show the truth about the way prisoners were tortured’, says a former inmate now 80 years old. She heads a group pushing for ex-prisons to become museums.
Polished and playful in equal measure, the Barbie Dreamhouse-inspired Ho Man Tin home of a young family shows it may be possible to please everyone.
A new book published by Hong Kong’s Blacksmith Books features images of Chongqing shot by war correspondent Melville Jacoby that paint a picture of life in China’s temporary capital on the Yangtze.
In this age of Google Earth and GPS, people still buy globes – they help us ‘find our place in the cosmos’, one maker says, adding that countries can be very sensitive about their territory’s depiction.
Sometimes called an ‘idol of classical music’, South Korean violinist Danny Koo wants to make his style and genre of music more accessible to the public – and so far, he is succeeding.
The 2,000-year-old paintings inspired by the Trojan War were found during excavations at the Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, which was submerged by volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.