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The Urban Renewal Authority (URA), the city’s redevelopment body, has announced a series of free “citywalk” tours in Central and Sheung Wan to showcase Hong Kong’s history and vibrance. The body will hold 40 guided tours in October catering to over 500 local residents or tourists, URA’s managing director Wai Chi-sing said on Sunday. These tours will highlight the URA’s redevelopment projects as well as historic spots, shops and street art in Central and Sheung Wan, Wai said. The tours will feature the three themes – history and architecture; food and community; and art and culture. The URA wil...
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By Stéphane ORJOLLET Arles (AFP) - "Le tableau retrouve un peu sa maison, si on veut", sourit Bice Curiger, co-commissaire de l'exposition "Van Gogh et les étoiles", qui ouvre samedi jusqu'au 8 septembre à la Fondation van Gogh Arles. "Le" tableau, c'est "La nuit étoilée" sur le Rhône. "Un des tableaux les plus populaires du monde", comme le décrit Jean de Loisy, l'autre co-commissaire. Et cette oeuvre revient donc pour la première fois, grâce à un prêt exceptionnel du musée d'Orsay, "à quelques mètres de l'endroit où il a été fabriqué, inventé, par Vincent" van Gogh il y a près de 135 ans, po...
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By Patrick BAERT Metz (AFP) - Une toile qui s'élève à perte de vue, comme des vagues multicolores contre des parois blanches: Katharina Grosse, magicienne de la couleur, prend possession samedi du Centre Pompidou-Metz, pour une exposition qui éclabousse jusqu'à l'extérieur. "Déplacer les étoiles". L'exposition de la peintre allemande, née en 1961 à Fribourg-en-Brisgau, apporte jusqu'au 24 février 2025 une touche de couleur bienvenue au pied du centre Pompidou et son immense toiture immaculée en forme de raie manta. Pour sa plus grande exposition jamais organisée en France, l'artiste a suspendu...
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Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2005 – with Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs deeply divided following a brutal war in the 1990s – a bronze statue was unveiled in Mostar of a figure it was hoped everyone could agree on: Bruce Lee. The inauguration was attended by the late kung-fu star’s widow and the Chinese ambassador, and took place a day before a similar sculpture was revealed in Hong Kong, making it the world’s first public statue of the martial arts legend. Yet, after surviving a series of trials and tribulations, it mysteriously disappeared in March this year. Sculptor Ivan Fijolić’s ...
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MCL Cinemas in Hong Kong has called off two special screenings of a film directed by Kiwi Chow, who was also the director of a 2019 protest documentary, without giving any reason. The theatre chain announced on Tuesday afternoon that next month’s special programme featuring two screenings of Beyond The Dream, which was first shown publicly in 2020, had been cancelled. According to the cancellation notice on MCL’s Facebook page, the screenings were set to take place on June 15 and June 28 at the cinema’s branch in Tsim Sha Tsui shopping mall The One. The cinema did not give a reason for the can...
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With an investment of over HK$1.6 million, Adrian Lai and his partner Tiffany Ha ventured into Hong Kong’s century-old flower market last November. “We were optimistic about its business prospects – all shops here are street-front shops, and the pedestrian traffic is bustling,” Lai told HKFP in Cantonese. While Lai has been an entrepreneur for years, Ha is good with cut flowers. The young couple in their 30s opened a shop at the junction of Sai Yee Street and Prince Edward Road West, which showcased blooms and greenery from all over the world: mainland China, the Netherlands, South Africa, Ecu...
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The Hong Kong government said it had not received any application from a “former Korean artiste” under the city’s talent admission schemes after reports emerged that a disgraced K-pop star had moved to Hong Kong after being released from prison last year. Citing sources local media reported that Seungri, whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun and who was a member of K-pop group Big Bang, had recently relocated to the city. Lee was jailed in August 2021 over his involvement in a high-profile sexual abuse scandal that shocked the Korean entertainment industry. After Lee was released from Korean priso...
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Hong Kong expects to bring in some HK$4.3 billion to the local economy from “mega events” this year, the city’s deputy finance chief has said as he announced 106 events for the latter half of the year. In all, this year’s 210 events are expected to attract some 1.7 million visitors and HK$7.2 billion in spending, which would amount to some HK$4.3 billion in economic value to the economy, deputy financial secretary Michael Wong said at a press conference on Tuesday. Of the 106 “mega events” for the second half of the year announced on Tuesday, 15 are new to the city, including the “Kungfu x Dan...
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A 15-year-old charged with property damage after vandalising the grave of Beyond’s late singer Wong Ka-kui has been denied bail. The student was denied bail and detained at the Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home. Another defendant, a 23-year-old man, was released on HK$5,000 bail and the condition that he does not set foot into the graveyard, The Witness reported. Police said they received a report from staff at the Tseung Kwan O Chinese Permanent Cemetery at around 11.30 am Sunday that two men were suspected of damaging, graffitiing, and pouring liquid over a gravestone at the cemetery. Poli...
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Toulouse (AFP) - L'artiste de street art James Colomina a installé à Toulouse, dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, une œuvre en hommage aux athlètes sous bannière neutre, à l'occasion du passage dans la ville rose de la flamme olympique. L'ouvrage, baptisé "Le pêcheur aux anneaux" et rouge comme la plupart des installations de l'artiste toulousain de 49 ans, représente un homme assis au bord d'un toit, ayant attrapé grâce à sa canne à pêche l'anneau cramoisi du logo olympique. "Cette installation vise à mettre en avant les athlètes qui participent aux Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024 sous une banni...
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