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Culture magazine is a vibrant English language monthly magazine featuring lavish photography and in-depth articles on the arts, travel, lifestyle and food & wine, plus a calendar of arts events in Hong Kong.

30/12/2024

Just as in many parts of China, it is still the custom in Hong Kong for a street to be devoted to a particular trade. And there’s no mistaking what’s on offer in Flower Market Road in the heart of Kowloon, where shops devoted to all things floral have congregated for over fifty years. This vibrant street market is blooming with colour and tradition. The urban renewal plans for this iconic place have begun, and hopefully, thoughtful planning will preserve this special place's unique cultural heritage and familiarity.

Mong Kok Flower Market is featured in CULTURE 239:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture

16/12/2024

The dangling approach as the Tian Tan Big Buddha statue slowly revealed itself from the mist – was mystical. Arriving at the top brought me back to the realisation that the Ngong Ping 360 cable car and village were purpose-built to attract tourists. Alongside Po Lin Monastery and the Big Buddha, the strategy has worked spectacularly. As genuine pilgrims and tourists come to understand, the site's natural beauty and purpose-built attractions combine to encourage serenity.

Picasso: printmaker is featured in CULTURE 239:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

12/12/2024

Picasso was the most influential painter of the twentieth century. He was both long-living and hugely prolific, not to mention an artistic genius, enough so that we are still talking about him more than fifty years after his death. British Museum’s exhibition Picasso: printmaker features a small selection of over 500 of his prints in its collection.

Picasso: printmaker is featured in CULTURE 239:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

09/12/2024

The Oi! Art Space in North Point offers a verdant reprieve from the bustling city with its greenery, vegetable gardens and newest exhibit: The Charm of Colour: Travel with Ceramics Through Time and Space. This exhibition brings together the works of three prominent modern ceramic artists. The dozen displayed pieces reflect ancient ceramic techniques and their evolution through these contemporary artists' works. Each artist pushes boundaries in compelling ways.

Contemporary Chinese Ceramics is featured in CULTURE 239:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

05/12/2024

At its peak, the misshapen complex touched the and housed more than 33,000 residents. Known as the “City of Darkness”, its identity as a self-governing enclave attracted many refugees fleeing the Chinese Civil War. Decades after its concrete walls were dismantled, Kowloon Walled City still sparks nostalgia – even for those born after its demolition, as video games and movies have glamorised the former lawless enclave for younger generations.

Kowloon Walled City is featured in CULTURE 239:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

29/11/2024

The 1990s marked a significant transformation for China’s identity. Economic growth, stability and improved international trade placed the recovering country in the global spotlight. M+’s Sigg Collection: Another Story exhibition explores about what Chinese artists thought about the changing climate and how they presented these reflections to a global audience. The rise of material prosperity clashed with traditional ideals as societal values struggled between the collective and the individual. How would China shape its values to satisfy contemporary commercialism and cultural traditions?

Sigg Collection: Another Story is featured in CULTURE 238:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

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27/11/2024

In 1873, the French Foreign Mission Society built the Bethanie Sanatorium in Pok Fu Lam. It served as a sanatorium for priests and missionaries to rest and recover in a place very much like a peaceful manor in the French countryside. Now a Grade II listed historic building operated by the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, the Bethanie was awarded an honourable mention at the 2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Awards.

Bethanie is featured in CULTURE 238:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

25/11/2024

The story of ancient Chinese civilisation is richly illustrated in a display of precious objects and ancient treasures on loan from museums and archaeological institutions. The Origins of Chinese Civilisation examines China’s origin story and provides insight into the Chinese nation's broad ancestry, told through archaeological discoveries from nine distinct ancient cultures that flourished during the Neolithic period. These artefacts clarify the heritage bequeathed by ancient societies, informing modern understanding of ancient cultures' beliefs, myths and values, which has shaped the development of Chinese society.

Origins of Chinese Civilisation is featured in CULTURE 238:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

21/11/2024

Two Japanese men, born in the same year, launched a renaissance of printmaking in postwar Japan. Kurosaki Akira and Nakabayashi Tadayoshi followed starkly diverging paths in their work in terms of materials, character and subject matter. One meditated on nature and treasured the soft lines of woodblock and copperplate prints; the other experimented with sharp colours, Western graphics and 3D-style prints. Japanese Printmakers of the Twentieth-Century Renaissance highlights these two printmakers.

Kurosaki Akira and Nakabayashi Tadayoshi is featured in CULTURE 238:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

18/11/2024

The port of Hong Kong and Victoria Harbour have always been key to this remarkable, ever-changing city. Photographers Hedda Morrison, Brian Brake and Edward Stokes, each, in their own manner, captured Hong Kong’s central features: the visually rich harbour, its people and maritime life. Voyage Through Time, an exhibition that at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum explores the dynamic changes to Hong Kong’s port during the 1940s and 1970s.

Aperture - Voyage Through TIme is featured in CULTURE 238:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

17/10/2024

Tsz Shan Monastery’s sprawling landscape is contained by densely forested mountains and the glimmering seafront says Victoria Mae Martyn. In her recent visit to the site of a monumental seventy-meter-tall bronze-cast statue of Guanyin, she features a place that connects people with a mindful awareness of the surrounding nature, leading her to a positive, peaceful state of mind.

Tsz Shan Monastery is featured in CULTURE 237:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

14/10/2024

The artworks from a late period of his career show how Wu Guanzhong, recognised as one of China’s most enduring and prolific artists took seemingly unexciting hues to great heights with his expressive and striking application of media onto the surfaces of canvas and paper. In the exhibition Wu Guanzhong: Between Black and White, a superb selection his ink and oil paintings are on display.

Wu Guanzhong: Between Black and White is featured in CULTURE 237:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

10/10/2024

The historical site offers much more than typical tours - the magic of the castle is its ability to draw out childlike wonder in anyone who visits. Founded in 1068 by William the Conqueror, the grand Warwick Castle in England began as a humble motte-and-bailey fort which was then subsequently built upon and fortified.
First-hand accounts of contemporary treacheries, including human dissections, torture chambers and incredibly biased trials provide the eye-opening tales of life in the remarkable Warwick Castle.

Warwick Castle is featured in CULTURE 237:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

07/10/2024

The Silk Road was never one road that only carried silk. The Silk Roads exhibition explores the interconnectivity of ancient societies from Japan to Ireland and broadens the definition of the traditional route and narrows the timescale to 500 to 1000 CE to better understand the motives behind the movement of people, objects and ideas across continents.

Silk Roads is featured in CULTURE 237:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

04/10/2024

Eddie Chau recorded the sights and vistas of Hong Kong in stunning artistic panoramas. In the exhibition Sketching His Land and People: The Drawings of Eddie Chau at the University Museum Art Gallery, the artist’s works, sketched in pen and ink, felt-tip pen, or watercolour, show beautifully composed and rendered local landscapes in extraordinary detail. An avid hiker, he frequently stopped to make sketches of what he saw, whether along the coast, in the New Territories, Lei Yue Mun, Sam Mun Tsai, or Yuen Long.

Sketching His Land and People: The Drawings of Eddie Chau
is featured in CULTURE 237:
https://www.magzter.com/HK/Asia-Brand-Media-Limited/CULTURE/Culture/

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