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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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08/01/2025

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 which《空空》(kung kung) is inspired by a concept from Buddhist philosophy.

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  • 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
  • Japanese artist Tenmyouya Hisashi, South East Asian art@Osage & in the studio: Australian Chamber Orchestra

    Japanese artist Tenmyouya Hisashi, South East Asian art@Osage & in the studio: Australian Chamber Orchestra

    Over the centuries there have been many different artistic schools, styles, and movements in traditional Japanese painting. By the 19th century the art form revealed the influence and synthesis of native Japanese aesthetics and ideas imported from Chinese and Western art. Pushing the synthesis further, in his different styles contemporary artist Hisashi Tenmyouya says that he wants not only to revive Japanese traditional painting as contemporary art but also to rebel against the authoritative art system.

    The aim of the Osage Art Foundation’s "South by Southeast" project, initiated in 2015, is to develop and advance perspectives on Southeast Asian art. This exhibition, "Stemflow: South by Southeast" is the third edition. Curated by Patrick Flores and Reuben Keehan, this third edition brings together 19 artists from Asia and the South Pacific to examine not only the interconnectivity but also the cultural subjectivities of the two regions.

    The third edition of Tai Kwun’s Prison Yard Festival is back this month with a programme that highlights both local and international musicians. One group of musicians featured is the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The string ensemble is showcasing music that fuses Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” with original compositions by Egyptian-born, Sydney-based oud player and composer Joseph Tawadros. He's with us in the studio now, along with several of the orchestr...

    11/12/2024
  • Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival, Japanese Printmakers@HKUMAG & Interview with conductor Elim Chan

    Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival, Japanese Printmakers@HKUMAG & Interview with conductor Elim Chan

    It’s the third edition and the final year of the three-year Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival, organised by the Tourism Commission, supported by the Hong Kong Geopark and curated by a cross-disciplinary design team. We featured the festival’s first year in 2022. This year, the organisers say the aim is to focus on interactions and encounters.

    Kurosaki Akira and Nakabayashi Tadayoshi, both born in 1937, are leading figures in post-war Japanese printmaking. The University Museum and Art Gallery in the University of Hong Kong is currently presenting an exhibition of around 650 of their works that highlights not only their differences but also how their approaches gradually converged.

    The world is a stage for Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan. At 38, she has already made her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2023 BBC Proms, and this year she opened the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s classical summer season at the Hollywood Bowl. She’s just ended a five-year stint as Principal Conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, and before that spent five years with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as principal guest conductor. She’s conducted orchestras in Amsterdam, Oslo, Finland, Berlin, Paris, Cleveland, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, and is currently making her debut in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. On the way to Australia, she returned to Hong Kong at the end of November to conduct a f...

    04/12/2024
  • Cynthia Mak, HKAPA students' programe & in the studio: Singer-songwriter Rachel Sutton & Chris Carpio

    Cynthia Mak, HKAPA students' programe & in the studio: Singer-songwriter Rachel Sutton & Chris Carpio

    Tobacco’s been consumed in China, mostly in pipes, since the 16th century. During the Qing dynasty though, possessing or smoking tobacco was punishable by death. But for those who still craved nicotine, snuff, or powdered tobacco, claimed to be a remedy for various illnesses, was available. Like other medicines, it was carried in small bottles: “snuff bottles”. There were often decorated, and that is a unique art form that continues to inspire some contemporary artists.

    This month, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts is presenting programmes produced by their students from the School of Dance and School of Drama.
    One of the drama productions taking place this week is “A Midsummer Night’s Drunk,” a Cantonese adaptation of Shakespeare's somewhat similarly named classic.

    Rachel Sutton is a singer-songwriter and actor from London. Her debut album in 2020, “A Million Conversations”, consisted of original compositions and covers. Her second is already in the pipeline. This week she’s in Hong Kong to showcase her original work, some classics from the American songbook, and...

    27/11/2024
  • Inkgo Lam, Making It Matters@M+ & in the studio: harpist Kateřina Englichová & oboist Vilém Veverka

    Inkgo Lam, Making It Matters@M+ & in the studio: harpist Kateřina Englichová & oboist Vilém Veverka

    A few weeks ago, we mentioned on the show that 2024 has been celebrated as the year of Czech music. It’s been celebrated by an array of concerts and events, featuring not only classical music but other musical genres. Later in today’s programme, we’re joining in by featuring two Czech musicians who visited Hong Kong at the end of last month.
    But before heading to the Czech Republic, we’re focusing on a natural material that is quintessentially Asian. In Hong Kong, you’ll most commonly see bamboo used for scaffolding around buildings, for making furniture, or even for steaming dim sum. It can also be a versatile material for artists.

    Gustav Mahler was born in eastern Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. On the relationship of Czechs to music, Mahler oncesaid, “Where else can you find a nation that has such a rich musical tradition as the Czechs?” That’s a tradition being celebrated in 2024, in the year of Czech Music, a festival organised once every decade that this year is highlighting the work of Bedřich Smetana, the “father of Czech music”, born exactly two centuries ago. Celebrations in the country, particularly in Prague, have been in full swing throughout the year. Some have even made their way to Hong Kong. In late October, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong invited two Czech musicians, harpist Kateřina Englichová and oboist Vilém Veverka, to join them in playing some Czech cl...

    20/11/2024
  • Asia Art Archive, HKIPF's exhibition & in the studio: Natalia Tokar, Marko López de Vicuña  & Li Yang

    Asia Art Archive, HKIPF's exhibition & in the studio: Natalia Tokar, Marko López de Vicuña & Li Yang

    For more than two decades, the Asia Art Archive has been building, collecting, creating and sharing materials on the recent history of art in Asia. Many of its resources are free for public access. One of its recent projects introduced the archival concept and process to local students.    

    On show at the Pao Galleries of the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the Hong Kong International Photo Festival's “Mega Family - Imagining Home” showcases 15 local photographers of different generations whose works reflected the idea of home and family in our society after the Covid pandemic.
    The piano is the instrument said to pretty much cover the range of the orchestra, the cello has been hailed as closest to the range of the human voice. Put them together WITH a human voice, specifically a soprano, and you may be in for a treat. Musical pieces by Bach, Schumann, Glazunov, Dvorak, Liszt and B...
    13/11/2024
  • Japanese monk and musician, Kanho Yakushiji & in the studio: vocalist Sherine Wong

    Japanese monk and musician, Kanho Yakushiji & in the studio: vocalist Sherine Wong

    Japanese Zen monk Kanho Yakushiji is known for taking Zen-inspired music to a worldwide audience. His music videos have earned over 50 million views. He was in Hong Kong for a one-night concert late last month as part of an Asia tour. We went to speak to him.

    Sherine Wong once competed in track and field events at the Asian Junior Games. She’s been the winner of the Ms Malaysia Universe competition and has also worked as a model, but she says her true passion is music, particularly jazz. Two years ago, she joined us to introduce her duo concept album “Two For...

    06/11/2024