Biographer Nigel Collett investigates the story of John MacLennan, a closeted gay Hong Kong police officer who found himself caught up in a web of corruption and homophobia....
In a new show at the Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong artist Leo Wong explores the disappearing aura of his city and the objects that help preserve it....
As Hong Kong plunges into the madness of Art Month, curator Isaac Leung explores how to engage and challenge audiences in a changing artistic landscape....
A temporary sculpture park on the harbourfront brings together work by local artists like Kacey Wong alongside contributions by some of the world's most famous artists, including Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Yayoi Kusama....
Paying tribute to the unsung heroes who tame Hong Kong's extreme weather, Kingsley Ng has created a site-specific installation in an enormous underground water tank....
Acclaimed artist Gaylord Chan was forced to exchange his paintbrush for a mouse – but his MS Paint drawings are no less powerful than his early work....
A new series from Penguin Books takes the pulse of Hong Kong 20 years after the handover. For Magnus Renfrew, that means a concise look at the city's potential as an art capital....
There is nowhere quite like Hong Kong. Founded by the British as a bridge between China and the world, it is a place that has somehow forged its own resilient identity in the gaps between nations, languages and cultures. On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong’s sovereignty was transferred from Britain to China, and the two […]...
Sarah Karacs’ first window into the world of Hong Kong came from a memoir of a young girl whose family fled to the Fragrant Harbour from Tianjin. A polyglot avid reader and tireless writer, she has always loved words and how they help us explore new landscapes, ideas, and conceptions of the world. Born to Norwegian and Hungarian parents, Sarah moved to China after studying German and Czech at the University of Oxford. She has written for Der Spiegel, the Prague Post, the London Times and the South China Morning Post. She plans to get to the heart of the Hong Kong arts scene for Zolima CityMag as the city steers itself towards a new, fascinating and complex chapter in its cultural and sociopolitical story.
