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A scene from Natasha Tontey’s “The Phantom Combatants and the Metabolism of Disobedient Organs” (2026) multi-panel video installation at the Ateneo Veneto cultural institute in Venice, Italy, for the Venice Biennale. Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
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Once an Indonesian guerrilla fighter, she’s now a ‘quantum ghost’ in Venice

Len Karamoy, a leader of an Indonesian rebel movement, is the focus of Natasha Tontey’s video installation at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Soprano-pianist Rachel Fenlon wows in dexterous Hong Kong debut

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this rainy weekend, May 15-17

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Photographer’s snaps of 1970s Hong Kong given life by grandson 5 decades on

Jack Smith’s ‘Streets of Neon’ collection features five ‘extremely personal’ photos his grandad took of a Hong Kong that no longer exists.

A photo taken by Herbert Smith during his 1979 trip to Hong Kong titled “Painting in Neon (1979)”. It is among the five pictures featured in his grandson Jack Smith’s limited-time print collection “Streets of Neon: Hong Kong 1979”, in which the London-based archivist shares his grandfather’s adventures with the world five decades on. Photo: Herbert Smith
A photo taken by Herbert Smith during his 1979 trip to Hong Kong titled “Painting in Neon (1979)”. It is among the five pictures featured in his grandson Jack Smith’s limited-time print collection “Streets of Neon: Hong Kong 1979”, in which the London-based archivist shares his grandfather’s adventures with the world five decades on. Photo: Herbert Smith
World of performing arts

A female Hamlet, a BMW-driving Hamlet: how Shakespeare’s play is having a moment

Fresh, vibrant and inclusive, new Hamlet productions are part of a wave of interest in the Shakespearean tragedy seen from stages to TikTok.

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Sex, desire and intimacy explored in Singapore art exhibition for over-18s

‘Passion is Volcanic’ at National Gallery Singapore focuses on the artistic expressions of sexual pleasures.

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Hong Kong wows the crowds to sleep at the 2026 Venice Biennale

The theme of the Biennale was to slow down enough to hear ignored voices, but Hong Kong’s pavilion might have taken things too far.

Visitors rest on cushions that form part of artist Kingsley Ng’s Laundry Nocturne installation at the Hong Kong pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Photo: Enid Tsui
Visitors rest on cushions that form part of artist Kingsley Ng’s Laundry Nocturne installation at the Hong Kong pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Photo: Enid Tsui
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | East meets West as Opera Hong Kong’s Carmen takes place in 1970s Hong Kong

Opera Hong Kong’s bold Hong Kong-set Carmen reimagines Bizet’s classic with triad gangsters, Cantonese lines and electrifying performances.

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The Tai Po fire took this artist’s home and life’s work. Now she’s starting anew

Deaf artist Apple Tong, whose home and works were destroyed in the Wang Fuk Court fire, reveals how she is turning disaster into positivity.

World of performing arts

Pioneering South Korean soprano Sumi Jo joins K-pop label, sings with Exo’s Suho

Sumi Jo opens up on great moments in her 40-year career, her new album Continuum, and why she signed with K-pop label SM Entertainment.

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South Korean soprano Sumi Jo performs at the Griminelli & Friends concert in Italy on November 20, 2019.
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When London’s museums started losing visitors, they decided to get creative

Faced with falling visitor numbers, the British capital’s museums – both old and new – have a plan to win back the crowds. But will it work?

The two-storey section of Robin Hood Gardens, the now demolished housing estate in Poplar, inside the new V&A East Storehouse in London, in May 2025. Photo: Getty Images
The two-storey section of Robin Hood Gardens, the now demolished housing estate in Poplar, inside the new V&A East Storehouse in London, in May 2025. Photo: Getty Images
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Russia and Israel’s Venice Biennale participation is causing big problems

The jury has resigned, EU funding has been cut, there’s no Golden Lion prize. One curator says: ‘You can’t be neutral when people are dying’.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

HK Phil’s compressed Ring cycle recording is Wagner made accessible

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s recording of Wagner: The Ring – An Orchestral Adventure is a symphonic narrative of just over an hour.

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Gardens of China and Europe juxtaposed in spectacular Hong Kong exhibition

A new exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art features works including Monet’s water lilies and Qing dynasty masterpieces.

The Water Theatre (c. 1700) by anonymous is one of the artworks on loan from the Palace of Versailles in “Blooming: The Art of Gardens in East and West” at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Photo: Collection of the Palace of Versailles
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Asian-American artists shine at US fair amid ongoing anti-immigrant rhetoric

Artists including Leland Wong and Liu Tianlian featured at the San Francisco Art Fair whose group exhibition focused on the local Chinatown.

Curator Hoi Leung (middle) photographed at the San Francisco Art Fair 2026 with colleagues from the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Yuanyuan Zhu (left) and Kyan Ng (right). (Photo by Hunter Ridenour, courtesy of AMP)
Curator Hoi Leung (middle) photographed at the San Francisco Art Fair 2026 with colleagues from the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Yuanyuan Zhu (left) and Kyan Ng (right). (Photo by Hunter Ridenour, courtesy of AMP)
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How Hong Kong’s 91-year-old Haw Par Mansion will transform into new cultural hub

Once the anchor of the iconic Tiger Balm Garden, the restored Grade 1 historic building will start a new chapter as Villa Haw Par this year.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong on Labour Day weekend, May 1-3

Hunt for rare Pokemon cards, savour French wine and cheese, shop for antiques, enjoy a Cantopop Pilates party or watch Aaron Kwok’s new film.

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Why Lacma’s new US$724 million David Geffen Galleries space flows like oceans

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building encourages accidental interactions with artwork that visitors often ignore.

A drone view of the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 19, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
A drone view of the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 19, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Yo-Yo Ma, Gustavo Dudamel among stars of HK Phil’s 2026-27 season

Nobuyuki Tsujii and Eric Lu also feature in a top line-up for Tarmo Peltokoski’s first season as the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s music director.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

The ‘brutal, horrific’ thrills of Tarmo Peltokoski’s HK Phil concert

Shostakovich’s Symphony No 11 was brought to life in ways that left listeners in a state of shell-shock.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Incredible works of Wu Guanzhong reimagined in Hong Kong dance crossover

Featuring music by Cantopop star Ivana Wong, the Hong Kong Dance Company’s new cross-disciplinary production explores Wu’s visual language.

“Grand Dance Poem In Between – Wu Guanzhong’s Ink Odyssey” from the Hong Kong Dance Company reimagines Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong’s famous dots, lines and planes as dynamic movement. Photo: HKDance
World of performing arts

Find classical music and opera boring? Hong Kong production aims to change that

A new production aims to make classical music accessible and engaging by fusing opera, contemporary dance, theatre and media art.

Mo Lai Yan-chi (left) directs a rehearsal session for The Diary, a new music-theatre production from Hong Kong’s Anima Ensemble that combines opera, contemporary dance, theatre and media art. Photo: Anima Ensemble
Mo Lai Yan-chi (left) directs a rehearsal session for The Diary, a new music-theatre production from Hong Kong’s Anima Ensemble that combines opera, contemporary dance, theatre and media art. Photo: Anima Ensemble
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Singapore’s Amanda Heng on making feminist art in a country that wasn’t ready for it

Amanda Heng talks about engaging with the public through art since the 1980s and why her installation at Venice Biennale is all about rest.

World of performing arts

‘Bad boy of classical music’, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, dies at 81

Former child prodigy Michael Tilson Thomas led many of the world’s top orchestras, including 25 years with the San Francisco Symphony.

Fashion

‘Real bodies’: Met Gala fashion exhibits show shapes rarely seen on catwalks

The coming spring exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum will feature mannequins representing pregnant, disabled and other body types.

An ensemble by designer Karoline Vitto appears on a mannequin model of plus-size model Charlie Reynolds (centre) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during preparations for the coming Met Gala exhibition titled “Costume Art”. Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
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