A speculative insight into the mind of one of America’s most famous writers in Edgar A. Poe’s Last Call, written and performed by Scott Robinson. Caution: spoilers ahead. But spoilers for real events in the life of Edgar Allen Poe – can you have spoilers for things that happened more than 150 years ago? Poe’s […]
A final museum visit in Hong Kong takes me to Flagstaff House and its Museum of Tea Ware, a mix of colonial architecture and Chinese tradition. A Final Museum Stop in Hong Kong Thank you for joining me as I packed in as many cultural activities as possible during my recent trip to Hong Kong. […]
The Hong Kong Heritage Museum covers a broad range of topics that make this place so special. A Final Day in Hong Kong – What to Pick? I’ve already given you a teaser for this museum: we walked past it as I visited Sha Tin and went on to Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery. It was […]
I get to know more of the West Kowloon Cultural District with M+, built to rival the great museums of modern and contemporary art. A Visit to M+ In recent days you have joined me for three walks in different parts of Hong Kong, where we explored aspects of the territory’s history. We started in […]
On my final day in Hong Kong I learn more about the territory’s 20th century development by walking around Sha Tin. A Walk in Sha Tin So far on this trip to Hong Kong, we have stretched our legs in Wan Chai, and taken an excursion to Lamma Island and Aberdeen. On the former, we […]
Making use of Hong Kong’s ferry network, I spent my free day in Hong Kong exploring Lamma and Aberdeen, where aspects of fisherfolk culture are still in evidence. Hong Kong’s Fisherfolk I was explaining in my last post that my primary purpose in visiting Hong Kong this time around was not tourism, but I nonetheless […]
On a return visit to Hong Kong I make the most of staying in a new neighbourhood and explore Wan Chai, a restaurant and nightlife hotspot. Google Searches Are Not Always the Answer I recently had the very good fortune of making a return trip to Hong Kong. It’s one of my favourite places – […]
A second contemporary art encounter in Val en Vignes in two days – this small community really benefits from a rich cultural landscape! Galerie Malebranche en Campagne In my last post, I was talking about a recent trip to the French countryside, and how pleasantly surprised I was to find not one, but two contemporary […]
An unexpected find in an old industrial building, la corbata rosa is a great asset for its rural community. la corbata rosa – Contemporary Art in a Historic Setting Now, if you had asked me even a few weeks back whether the Deux-Sèvres region in France was a good place to see contemporary art, I […]
It’s a world of saintly visions and the drama of the ordinary as the National Gallery puts Francisco de Zurbarán centre stage. Zurbarán There’s just about a month left to see Zurbarán at the National Gallery. I’ve got myself into the position I always seem to, where I’m rushing around all the galleries before exhibitions […]
