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Hong Kong-based artist duo Zheng Mahler’s ‘What is it like to be a (virtual) bat?’ exhibition at PHD Group takes viewers on a psychedelic journey through the trees and streets of Lantau Island.
An uptick in green cards illustrates an effort to draw more investors and celebrities, but for other foreigners, residency restrictions have increased.
There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home: Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers
Ron Wan & Mildred Cheng “Tell them about your rugs,” Wan teases as he gives Cheng a playful nudge in the arm during a recent visit to Sheung Wan co-working space The Hive. It seems Cheng, who moonlights as a painter, has just purchased a tufting gun so she can turn her trippy artworks, some of them bordering on the erotic, into rugs. “A lot of my personal work is based on psychedelic experiences,” says Cheng, a 27-year-old vegetarian who goes by the alias “I Ride Dolphin” on Instagram. She is simultaneously head-in-the-clouds and sharp-as-a-tack, and received her bachelor’s from...
An âOld Menâs Clubâ Dominates Japan. The Young Just Put Them on Notice. Change may come slowly in Japanese society, but social media has offered an outlet for a younger generation stifled by a rigid hierarchy. Momoko Nojo, a student at Keio University in Tokyo, and one of the authors of the petition that called for systemic change in the wake of sexist remarks by the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee.Credit...Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times TOKYO â For a moment, it looked as if the most powerful people in Japan were three 20-something women.