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The Hong Kong art community backs Asia Art Archive's 'Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys' and 'Ink City' in Tai Kwun.

Goethe drew on the poet al-Mutanabbi and the Thousand and One Nights, and a special exhibition explores shared motifs.

Pursuits Share Ahead of her official appointment as Tai Kwun’s senior curator for heritage & digital, Ying Kwok takes us through a year of exhibitions, highlighting the role of a curator in shaping artists, art and the art world at large. The prevalence of the term “curated” in contemporary culture has undoubtedly undermined the role of an art curator – these days, the word has devolved into a fancier term for “selected”. But it would be a mistake to assume that curators in an art-world context do no more than choose which paintings hang upon a wall in a show. That part is...

13 years on, Wenchuan Earthquake survivors enjoy new lives ( 1 In the past 13 years, many survivors of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake have made it through the pain of the past, repaid what they have received, and realized their dreams. Tang Xingyue was a little girl when she was buried for six hours in the earthquake. She stopped growing and became a “pocket girl” with a height of only 1.3 meters due to the injury. Thirteen years later, Tang became a rural teacher and led children to pursue their music dreams.(Picture by Ni Wenbing) Liu Jia was saved by medical workers wearing military unif...

Location: Singapore  Impact statement: Shaking up Singaporean poetry with an uncompromising attitude and a no holds barred approach Poet Marylyn Tan is breaking down all sorts of barriers in Singapore’s literary scene. The first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in its 28 year history, she is known for her iconoclastic, witty, outspoken take on subjects including gender politics, and consistently shows a willingness to take on taboo subjects, many of them sexual and religious. A former stand-up comic, she is also the founder of arts collective Dis/Content. Phot...