HK Art & Culture

HONG KONG—A 700-year-old Chinese painted scroll from the Yuan Dynasty fetched 306.6 million Hong Kong dollars ($41.8 million) at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong. The 6.6-foot scroll, titled “Five ...

Pro-democracy activist and photographer Otto Yuen is widely known in Hong Kong for his large hand-painted graphics on ...

In the last two weeks, Hong Kong publisher Raymond Yeung has hastily made changes to a draft paper ...

Books written by prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy figures have been removed from library shelves across the city in ...

STOCKHOLM—A Swedish publisher on May 5 distributed poems written by a Hong Kong bookseller and smuggled out of ...

HONG KONG—A Hong Kong bakery is doing its part to support the city's pro-democracy protest movement by making ...

The image has become an emblem of the Hong Kong protests: A young woman wielding a yellow umbrella ...

HONG KONG—For 53-year-old Perry Dino, a paintbrush and canvas are weapons for opposing the Hong Kong government as ...

Bao Xuan came from an impoverished family during the Western Han Dynasty, 2,000 years ago. His mentor appreciated ...

HONG KONG—Hong Kong organizers of an exhibition by a dissident Chinese-Australian cartoonist, a persistent thorn in the side ...

The Chinese character 滅 (mie) means eliminate, extinguish, or destroy. Within this character, the ancient Chinese philosophy of ...

A 38-year-old Chinese from Chong Qing city met Cangjie in his dream. Cangjie taught him the art of ...

When used as a noun, 信 (xin) refers to a written communication, letter, message or information.  When used ...

New Tang Dynasty Television recently broadcast news about over 100 Taiwanese entrepreneurs living in Shanghai who went back ...

Recently I read an article in a local Hong Kong newspaper.  The author, a Hong Kong lady, said ...

Not long after Donald Trump became president of the United States, he authorized a military strike on a ...

One of the Chinese characters I like most is 安 (an), which refers to safety, peace, serenity, comfort, ...

We recently chatted with a French gentleman who works in Hong Kong, and he talked about what he ...

NEW YORK—Land and sea, sky and sun, fascinated the great British painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851). He ...

Zao means lees, the residue from the process of wine making. Kang means bran, the leftover coating of ...

Like an alchemist, founder of Kit, Merin Guthrie has created an antidote to standard sizing and to throwaway ...

Grammy winners Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano have collaborated on an exceptional new album, “Shakespeare Songs.”

Apart from the École des Beaux-Arts, there were other important and influential academy schools. Many of them, including ...

HONG KONG—The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Reunion Festival, is one of the most important festivals celebrated by ...

NEW YORK—"Sartoria Eleganza" has a nice ring to it. In Italian, "sartoria" means tailoring and "eleganza," elegance. Nick ...

TORONTO—The Word On The Street, Canada's largest annual book and magazine festival, returns this year with a newfound ...

TOKYO, Japan—With much excitement and anticipation, Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra officially began its 2016 season with a matinee ...