‘Girlfriends’ in Macau: Tracy Choi’s Emotionally Complex New Film
Tracy Choi brings a boldly intimate lesbian relationship from Macau to the screen, exploring identity, heartbreak and belonging...
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Hong Kong Spirits: Magnolia Lab’s Herbal Experiment
How Chinese herbal tea and tonic wine inspired a new kind of liqueur — and a new type of cocktail culture...
Gulnur Mukazhanova’s Art Transforms Felt into Feelings
The Berlin-based Kazakh artist is using a traditional material from her homeland to create an emotional landscape at CHAT...
Ron Arad’s Beautiful Things Come to Hong Kong
Creative destruction? Not exactly. A postmodern master is exhibiting his work in Hong Kong, including a remarkable found object...
Chen Min’s New Design Language is Rooted in the Old
The Hangzhou-based, Hong Kong-smitten designer is using traditional Chinese crafts as a base for contemporary design with a global reach ...
What is Oscar Chan Yik-long Doing in Lithuania?
With upcoming shows in Hong Kong and Vilnius, the unconventional ink artist is channelling his own life into his work...
Meet Cehryl, Hong Kong’s Low-Key Pop Gem
From Hong Kong to Los Angeles and back again, Cehryl has turned a global indie pop sound into something rooted in her hometown...
CT Music Fest Goes Legit With a Grassroots Hong Kong Happening
Joe Lung has been staging secret concerts at his Chez Trente speakeasy. Now he’s scaling up with a camping music festival on Cheung Chau...
Tim Marlow on What Makes a Good Design Museum
The director of London’s Design Museum balances blockbuster exhibitions with pioneering design research...
Neon Is Not Dead: The Future of a Hong Kong Icon
Discover the story of Hong Kong neon in the second Zolima Culture Guide. Support the book on Kickstarter and help the glow live on....
Hong Kong Collectors: Shun Chi-ming and the Local Weather
The former Hong Kong Observatory director has amassed an impressive collection of objects related to the city’s famous weather station...
Across Time and Gravity, Kung Siu-ping’s Leap to the Big Screen
After years in the film industry, Kung Siu-ping finally has a movie of his own, thanks to help from legend Sylvia Chang...
Did You Know About Hong Kong’s Million-Object Design Collection?
How designer John Wu amassed an enormous collection of objects that tell the story of Hong Kong...
The Cantonese Pacific, Part I: How Hong Kong Became a Global City
A new way of looking at Cantonese migration and the transnational networks it created...
How John Young Embraced the Art of Being In Between
The Hong Kong-born Australian artist turned his position in the diaspora into fodder for nearly 50 years of creative work...
The Memory Palace of Adrian Wong
An engrossing exhibition channels the mysteries of family lore into a nostalgic recreation of old Hong Kong...
Meet Caro Chan, Hong Kong’s Rising Chinese-Nigerian Star
Caro Chan is gaining attention from theatre to TV to standup comedy, all while navigating her identity as a Chinese Hongkonger with Igbo roots...
Meet Hong Kong’s Newest, Youngest Film Directing Duo
Antonio Tam and Jeffrey Lam’s first feature, Valley of the Shadow of Death, tackles religion, morality and a terrible crime – with a handsome pop star in the lead...
The Provocations of Memphis Group’s co-founder Michel De Lucchi
We spoke to the influential Italian architect and designer about the legacy of his famous 1980s design group...
Not Afraid to Fail: Upstart Filmmaker Trevor Choi
How a Canadian-born director strayed off the path to a corporate career in finance to become a rising new Hong Kong film talent...