South China Morning Post - Arts & Entertainment

He is on screen, onstage, on tour, online and in song. Hamlet – William Shakespeare’s masterpiece about a moody Danish prince – seems to be having a moment. A production by the UK’s National Theatre has landed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York starring Hiran Abeysekera. There is a movie version set in London’s South Asian community starring Riz Ahmed. Anthony Hopkins,...

Singapore’s reputation might be that of a conservative society that is rather prudish when it comes to physical intimacy and eroticism, but National Gallery Singapore (NGS) is opening a window into its boudoir with an exhibition that focuses on the artistic expressions of sexual pleasures. “Passion is Volcanic: Desire in Southeast Asian Art” borrows its title from Liu Kang’s 195...

Koyo Kouoh, the late artistic director of the 2026 Venice Biennale who sadly died before the opening of the world’s most watched international contemporary art exhibition, left behind a set of profound curatorial cues. She wanted “In Minor Keys”, the title of this year’s Biennale, to be a place where art slows you down enough to hear the voices of the ignored and the silenced, w...

Carmen is back – again. Opera Hong Kong’s fourth production of Georges Bizet’s masterpiece takes a bold approach by setting the story, not in 19th century Spain, but in 1970s Hong Kong, a fitting move for the local audience’s favourite opera. East meets West can be a cliché – here, it worked superbly. The concept was executed brilliantly by director Jia Ding and an all-mainland ...

For Hong Kong-based artist Apple Tong Wing-yin, Wang Fuk Court has always been more than a home address. It was a library of her life’s work. Tong, a prominent deaf illustrator and graphic designer who communicates through what she calls her “silent language” of art, kept the many canvases that spoke for her inside her flat in the Tai Po housing estate. In November last year, th...