Art

Belgian designer Charles Kaisin works like a choreographer with a dancer, seeing endless possibilities of form and flow in a wide variety of materials, as he pushes the boundaries of what each one can...

Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute designed the Hong Kong Design Institute. Two and a half years after it opened they reflect on what the building has taught them about sustainability in architecture....

Drugstore in Vitebsk, 1914 Marc Chagall died in 1985, the last of the great 20th century painters. Thirty years later his legacy is still hotly debated. Hats off then to the Opera Gallery for bringing a...

Takashi Murakam The man who made Louis Vuitton bags cool (once upon a time) arrived in Hong Kong on May 21st for the opening of his solo exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, which will run from May...

Ronald Goes Fishing Nailing Ronald McDonald to a cross (hundreds of times)is among the more restrained antics of Dinos and Jake Chapman, brothers and artists who have turned sibling rivalry Into creative...

Many songs and poems have perished along with the minstrels who sang them, while untold books and scripts have been buried and burned but the culture and history coded within colour has endured. A new...

Julian Schnabel’s flirtations with celebrity have damaged his reputation as an artist but the man who has more film star friends than paintbrushes is staging a critical comeback.   Palazzo Chupi,...

The early summer is when Hong Kong enters art frenzy and the city is awash in inspiring work and captivating exhibitions. There is no better place to acquire the buzz and the beauty of it all than at...

Using skills from the 21st century scholars are putting digital techniques to work in an effort to preserve the endangered artefacts of China’s Dunhuang region, where the Mogao caverns represent one of the...

Aesthetics and practicality make fine dancing partners at the HKDI’s Department of Fashion and Image Design, where Liz McLafferty encourages students to explore the boundaries between the imperatives of...