TORONTO, Feb. 20, 2024 /CNW/ – It’s that time of year again! Hong Kong is gearing up to host an array of creative experiences this spring. From a mesmerizing new teamLab installation to much-anticipated annual events like Art Basel Hong Kong, travellers will be immersed in art on the banks of Victoria Harbour.
Dazzling New Experiences to Explore
1) Art@Harbour 2024: teamLab “Continuous”
Kick-start your artsy adventure with teamLab’s groundbreaking “Continuous” installation on Central Harbourfront. Part of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s (LCSD) Art@Harbour 2024 (March 25 March-June 2), hundreds of glowing egg-shaped structures come alive with ever-changing colours and sounds, responding to visitors’ interactions.
2) WestK FunFest: “Ephemeral”
Next, admire digital art facades illuminating the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade, then continue the evening at WestK FunFest (March 16-April 7), where an award-winning, large-scale immersive art installation features a world of giant, vibrant inflatable “bubble-tecture”.
3) ComplexCon Hong Kong
A must for pop culture lovers, ComplexCon Hong Kong (March 22-24) will also be in town. The expertly curated festival features the world’s most influential brands and artists, creating an unforgettable experience that blends fashion, sneakers, art, food, music, inspiration, and more. It will be making its international debut at the AsiaWorld Expo, just minutes away from Hong Kong International Airport.
Landmark Art Events Return
1) Art Basel Hong Kong
A cornerstone of art season, Art Basel Hong Kong needs no introduction. Taking place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from March 28-30, the prestigious art fair will return with more than 240 world-class galleries and 16 large-scale installations.
2) Art Central
Returning to Central Harbourfront after four years, Art Central (March 27-31) will again showcase boundary-pushing contemporary art from the region’s most forward-thinking galleries and a new sector, “Neo,” devoted to first-time exhibitors.
3) Hong Kong Palace Museum & M+
Love the classics? In West Kowloon Cultural District, one of the harbour’s most excellent districts, see masterpieces from London’s National Gallery at the Hong Kong Palace Museum’s “Botticelli to Van Gogh” exhibition (through April 11), then pop over to M+ for the impressive “Noir & Blanc” exhibition on black-and-white photography (opening on March 16).
Meanwhile, Arts in Hong Kong Harbour Tour, arranged by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, will offer front-row seats to the artistic wonders along the sea. More details to follow on discoverhongkong.com.
Can’t visit this spring? Not to worry. As Asia’s leading art destination, Hong Kong offers exciting creative experiences all year. Book your trip to Hong Kong, where diverse art experiences await!
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
