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Fionnuala McHugh
How two ‘foreigners’ came to make a film about the last days of Kwu Tung, from its soy sauce factories to village house demolition.
Grace Wu, the world’s No 1 Ming furniture expert, traces her journey ahead of her upcoming exhibition at Christie’s Hong Kong.
Currently showing at Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, acclaimed artist Mark Bradford made a Los Angeles-style mural with Sham Shui Po students.
When The Fabrick Lab founder was tapped to create an art piece for The Macallan House Hong Kong, she found one crucial connection: colour
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Marsh miasma, barrack fever, Hongkong Fever – colonisers called the disease that struck as they built their new town on the north shore of Hong Kong Island by a variety of names. It’s the subject of a new book.
David Bellis, founder of Gwulo.com, a digital repository of expat memories, talks about documenting Hong Kong and moving to Wales, ahead of his upcoming farewell talk at the Royal Geographical Society.
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 Hong Kong art gallery owner’s hilltop family home in the New Territories is a kaleidoscope of vibrant, fun artworks – every room inspires creativity and tells a different story.
American visual artist Sarah Morris’ new film ‘ETC’ – which is being screened on the facade of M+ until March 17 – displays her unique artistic language in offering an outsider’s depiction of Hong Kong.
Everyday food items reproduced faithfully in oil paints but placed in settings you wouldn’t expect – in a dragon boat, on a street – mark still-life artist Chang Ya-chin’s work, on show in Hong Kong.
Jennifer Lee co-wrote and co-directed Frozen and Frozen 2. While in Hong Kong for the opening of Disneyland’s World of Frozen, she shared her thoughts.
Holding his second solo exhibition in Hong Kong, at David Zwirner, German artist Neo Rauch talks about his spat with art historian Wolfgang Ullrich and gaining control of his paintings’ characters.
Design Trust Futures Studio has dotted micro-parks across Hong Kong with one goal in mind: creating communities. We meet Marisa Yiu, its tireless champion.
A conference in Shenzhen about Arnold Schoenberg saw the Chinese premiere of Tod Machover’s opera about the 20th century Austrian Jewish composer who pioneered atonal music and his exile in America.
The Regent Hotel, with its unrivalled harbour views, was the place to witness Hong Kong history – such as the 1997 handover. Renamed the InterContinental in 2001, it has reclaimed its original name.
Hong Kong is not lacking in shopping centres, but the latest, The Pedder Arcade, is unlike any other. On the fifth floor of the Pedder Building in Central, it is the passion project of Mark Cho.
Artist Konstantin Bessmertny and his concert pianist wife Gala’s home in Coloane, Macau, which they first saw in 2004, is a testament to marital harmony – part art studio, part cosy retreat.
Husband and wife Yeung Tong Lung and Sze Yuen are holding their second joint art show, 28 years after their first. It shows their contrasting styles.
With his Chater House salon a victim of redevelopment, hairstylist to the rich and famous Kim Robinson has decided the universe is hinting he should quit while he’s ahead. He recalls good and bad times.
When Chris Hall’s mother said ‘buy property’, he didn’t argue but bought Chinese robes too, and his Hong Kong home houses a world-class collection. He tells Fionnuala McHugh about a childhood spent continent-hopping.
The M+ museum of visual culture in Hong Kong’s exhibition Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China, celebrating Chinese artist and early influencer Song Huai-kuei, feels somewhat overdone.
Now showing in Hong Kong, New York-based Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero reveals how his ‘magical’ church studio changed him and why his grandmother is such an important part of his work.
Hard-partying Hong Kong photo artist Basil Pao talks about filming The Last Emperor, travelling with Monty Python’s Michael Palin, and his new book, a retrospective of his long career.
‘Hong Kong’s first impresario’, Harry Odell, who got The Beatles and Cliff Richard to perform in the city, is brought to life in a meticulously researched documentary that honours a larger-than-life entrepreneur.
Todd Sears, the CEO and founder of Out Leadership, the global LGBTQ business network, talks to Fionnuala McHugh about play-acting, letter writing and working as an openly gay man.
Architect and artist William Lim and his wife, interior designer Lavina, have lovingly restored his parents’ Mid-Levels home, preserving their legacy with a respectful, delightfully retro renovation.
Writer Fionnuala McHugh has flirted with owning a smartphone but never committed. She bought a Nokia dumb phone but mostly uses it for texting, and has an occasional fling with an off-network Samsung.
In May 1923, Chinese bandits hijacked a luxury train and took foreign and local passengers hostage, resulting in a diplomatic crisis and the fall of the government of the day.
With his first solo exhibition in Asia about to open in Hong Kong, American artist Rashid Johnson paints us a personal portrait of his artistic journey as we look at his art over the years.
Klaus Heymann, founder of Naxos - best known for its classical music catalogue - talks about stealing from a US army base, arguments in Hong Kong and always being ahead of the curve.
