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Fionnuala McHugh

Inside Ai Weiwei’s gigantic UK art show, including China detention recreation

Huge works star at Ai’s largest ever site-specific show, while July 3 and 4 saw a 24-hour live performance of his 2011 detention in China.

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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.

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.

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