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RTHK' s The Works focuses on Hong Kong's arts and cultural scene. The Works features news and reviews of visual and performing arts, design, literary and other “ works ” .

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RTHK' s The Works focuses on Hong Kong's arts and cultural scene.

The Works features news and reviews of visual and performing arts, design, literary and other “ works ” .

Added illumination comes from interviews with leading performers and producers, interspersed with updates on events affecting the development of the territory 's artistic and cultural life. There's also in – most weeks – a live studio performance.

The Works is aired on RTHK 32 every Wednesday at 21:30 & RTHK 31 every Saturday at 16:00.

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19/02/2025

We have a doctor in the house later, or rather in the studio, but don’t worry, no one here is going through a medical emergency. Ryan Cheung is not only a doctor but also a singer-songwriter. He took a six-month sabbatical to pursue his love for music. He’ll be here to tell us more about his journey. Like Ryan, Packy Lai also decided to move away from her everyday job, which was in marketing, to spend time on the art that interested her. Unlike Ryan she decided to make the move permanent, and to turn her hobby, calligraphy, into her profession.

At the Hong Kong Palace Museum, around 150 treasures from the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Palace of Versailles in France have been on show together in one exhibition for the first time. The exhibition highlights the cultural encounters between China and France in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Objects on show include royal portraits, porcelains, glassware, enamelware, textiles, books and scientific instruments.

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  • Calligraphy artist, Packy Lai, China-France Cultural Encounters@HKPM & in the studio: Ryan Cheung

    Calligraphy artist, Packy Lai, China-France Cultural Encounters@HKPM & in the studio: Ryan Cheung

    We have a doctor in the house later, or rather in the studio, but don’t worry, no one here is going through a medical emergency. Ryan Cheung is not only a doctor but also a singer-songwriter. He took a six-month sabbatical to pursue his love for music. He’ll be here to tell us more about his journey. Like Ryan, Packy Lai also decided to move away from her everyday job, which was in marketing, to spend time on the art that interested her. Unlike Ryan she decided to make the move permanent, and to turn her hobby, calligraphy, into her profession.

    At the Hong Kong Palace Museum, around 150 treasures from the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Palace of Versailles in France have been on show together in one exhibition for the first time. The exhibition highlights the cultural encounters between China and France in the late 17th and 18th centuries...

    19/02/2025
  • Snake conservation@Kadoorie Farm, Chiyu Uemae@Axel Vervoordt & in the studio: pianist Niu Niu

    Snake conservation@Kadoorie Farm, Chiyu Uemae@Axel Vervoordt & in the studio: pianist Niu Niu

    According to the Chinese Lunar calendar, this is the Year of the Wood Snake. In Chinese literature and mythology, the snake is an ambiguous symbol. On the one hand, it’s associated with darkness, deceit, maliciousness and fear. On the other, it’s thought of as a little dragon, symbolising good luck, rebirth, wisdom and agility. To celebrate the new year, the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden is currently presenting an exhibition and educational programme to provide visitors with everything they might want to know about snakes.

    On show at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery “Cosmology”, features Chiyu Uemae's works completed between the 1950s and the 2000s. The centrepiece, "Untitled", highlights his ability to transform humble and everyday objects into the abstract. It also echoes the group’s 1956 manifesto: “Gutai Art imparts life to matter; the human spirit and matter shake hands with each other while keeping their distance.”

    Last April, pianist Niu Niu and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden, released a live recording of Tchaikovsky’s much-loved Piano Concerto No. 1 and his Symphony No. 6. Niu Niu returned to Hong Kong last week to complete the piano concerto, cycle, performing Tchaikovsky’s Second and Third piano concertos.
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    12/02/2025
  • Cézanne & Renoir@HKMOA, Michele Fletcher@White Cube & in the studio: pianist Chiyan Wong

    Cézanne & Renoir@HKMOA, Michele Fletcher@White Cube & in the studio: pianist Chiyan Wong

    Last year was celebrated as the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Impressionist movement. To mark the occasion, a selection of masterpieces from the Musee de l’Orangerie and the Musee d’Orsay tracing the life and work of Paul Cezanne and Auguste Renoir have been brought together for a touring exhibition. It’s currently on show in Hong Kong.

    Aftertime” at White Cube Gallery is London-based painter Michele Fletcher’s first Hong Kong exhibition. In her works, vivid and layered ribbon-like swirls of paint instantly bring to mind lush vegetation. Fletcher completes each painting in a single session, often requiring considerable physical endurance, sometimes over as long as twelve hours, applying layers of paint on top of previous still wet layers. Texture and depth are created by the scraping, dragging and dripping of the paint across the surface.

    Pianist Chiyan Wong’s musical repertoire ranges from the early Baroque to the 21st century. For his debut album, “Liszt Transfigured”, he edited and performed Franz Liszt's extremely challenging transcriptions of well-known opera melodies. His second album focused on Ferruccio Busoni’s edited and abridged 1914 version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. His latest album, and his first digital album “Swing!”, in collaboration with the London Symphony Orch...

    05/02/2025
  • CNY Special: City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, “Glorious” & Fusion band led by Jessica Fung

    CNY Special: City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, “Glorious” & Fusion band led by Jessica Fung

    Kung Hey Fat Choy! We’re all hoping the new year will bring an abundance of good things, and in today’s show we have an abundance of music, and a little comedy, to celebrate the Year of the Snake. Dizi player Jessica Fung previously appeared on The Works with her Chinese ensemble TroVessional, but she’s venturing onto new ground with a new lineup this year. A little later she’ll be joining us to tell us more. But first, we get things off to a glorious start. And “Glorious!” is the name of a new adaptation of the West End play that Leanne Nicholls of the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong is presenting during this...

    29/01/2025
  • Rhythmaker, Ruth Asawa@David Zwirner & in the studio: GypsAsia

    Rhythmaker, Ruth Asawa@David Zwirner & in the studio: GypsAsia

    Later on the show, we’ll be getting into the swing of things with some old friends. Bassist Sylvain Gagnon, guitarist Antoine Richard and drummer Tobe Kushiator will be here to tell us about a new album that focuses on “jazz manouche” a genre popularised by the Romani jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and a group of fellow musicians in Paris from the 1930s to the 1950s. In jazz manouche, the guitarist uses a form of strumming known as “the pump” to add a swinging percussion. In music in general, percussion can be provided by a range of hitting, crashing, shaking, and scraping movements. For many, it remains the simplest and most accessible form of music-making.

    Ruth Asawa once said that her primary concerns in life were art and art education: “I have devoted most of my life to the study and practice of art. I have made doing it part of my life…. Doing is living.” “Doing Is Living”, at the David Zwirner gallery until February 22nd, is her first solo exhibition in Greater Chin...

    22/01/2025
  • Museum of Climate Change’s exhibition, David Clarke@UMAG & in the studio: Rhythmic East Arts Group

    Museum of Climate Change’s exhibition, David Clarke@UMAG & in the studio: Rhythmic East Arts Group

    The qin or guqin is an ancient Chinese plucked seven-string musical instrument, so valued in traditional cultural circles that an old saying goes: “A gentleman does not part with his qin or with poetry without good reason”. Well, later in the show, we may not be parting with a qin, but we will be sharing with you some new music for it as composed by a group of contemporary musicians. Stay with us for that. But first, last year was Hong Kong’s hottest since records began 140 years ago. Rising temperatures and extreme weather caused by climate change are worldwide phenomena, and their effects can be seen in the drought and fierce winds that sparked the recent devastating Los Angeles wildfires. Here in Hong Kong, concerns about the impact of climate change are at the forefront of an ongoing exhibition by a group of local artists.

    Currently on show at the University of Hong Kong’s Museum and Art Gallery is an exhibition of works by art historian and visual artist David Clarke. “David Cl...

    15/01/2025
  • M+ Cindy Sherman & Yasumasa Morimura, Children Of The Dust@MAYAO & in the studio: Claudia Ng

    M+ Cindy Sherman & Yasumasa Morimura, Children Of The Dust@MAYAO & in the studio: Claudia Ng

    Since cave dwellers first left handprints on cave walls, artists have found ways to represent themselves in art. Since then, self-portraits have appeared in many different forms: in painting, sculpture, photography and other creative media. Currently on show at M+ is an exhibition of works by two prominent photographers for whom self-portraiture becomes a way to reflect on society, celebrity, and identity.

    There is a theory that almost all the elements required to make up the human body were created in the furnaces of stars. That theory inspires the title of “The Children of Dust” at Mayao Art Space in Wong Chuk Hang. The exhibition features 31 works by eight artists from China, Israel, Peru, Iran, France, and Singapore.

    Singer-songwriter Claudia Ng says her compositions are driven by her love for jazz. Her latest EP is called, “Everything, everywhere”, the Chinese title of whi...

    08/01/2025
  • Tai Kwun's Circus Bootcamp 2.0, Mark Bradford@Hauser & Wirth & in the studio: Tango music & dance

    Tai Kwun's Circus Bootcamp 2.0, Mark Bradford@Hauser & Wirth & in the studio: Tango music & dance

    Happy New Year.

    Later in this week’s show we’re kicking off the new year by “tripping the light fantastic”. In other words, we’re celebrating the new year with dance, specifically tango and tango music. Nazar Tabachyshyn, accordion player and founder of the local band, Café 852, will be here with pianist Melodie Wong and two dancers. Don’t go away. First though, a trip to the circus, where circus highlights, especially in modern times and now that performing animals have fallen out of favour, can include acrobatics, aerial numbers, juggling, clowning, magic and even theatre. Here in Hong Kong, Tai Kwun has organised a contemporary circus festival during the holiday season since 2018. We went to take a look at their training programme.

    Currently showing at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong is Mark Bradford’s “Exotica”. Bradford is known for his large-scale abstract paintings using paper and graphic materials he has collected. Through video, print, collages, drawing, mixed media and installations, he explores social and political issues within marginalised...

    01/01/2025
  • Jazz at Lincoln Center: Eugene Pao & Friends

    Jazz at Lincoln Center: Eugene Pao & Friends

    Merry Christmas!

    We have some goodies for everyone this festive season. In this week’s show we’re welcoming some friends back to talk about a very special project. The Lincoln Center in New York City is home to eleven performing arts organisations. It’s one of the world’s leading performing arts centres, and offers a variety of programming that includes music, dance, opera, theatre, cinema and more. One of the buildings among the complex is the Jazz at Lincoln Center. Two years ago, Hong Kong guitarist Eugene Pao, pianist Ted Lo, drummer Antony Fernandes and bassist, Sylvain Gagnon went there to perform, an event that re...

    25/12/2024
  • Daphne Mandel's “Cha Guo” , Palatable Parables@Karin Weber & in the studio: DJ & producer Romain FX

    Daphne Mandel's “Cha Guo” , Palatable Parables@Karin Weber & in the studio: DJ & producer Romain FX

    Later in the show, we are featuring some dance tunes. And the person spinning those tunes is French DJ and producer, Romain FX. He’ll be here to tell us why he considers Hong Kong’s disco scene in the 1970s and 1980s to represent the epitome of desire. But first, while Hong Kong’s disco beats and Cantopop sounds may have attracted Romain, for one of his fellow French expatriates here, architect Daphné Mandel, it’s the city’s quieter side and more distant past that has encouraged her to stay and create.

    As part of its 25th anniversary celebrations the Karin Weber Gallery is featuring a group exhibition by local artists called "Palatable Parables". It’s focusing o...

    18/12/2024