CNY revellers seize the last day of letting off firecrackers

The air was filled with smoke as fireworks, firecrackers and rockets in their various shapes and sizes popped and exploded around the designated area on Avenida Dr Sun Yat-Sen (‮.‬‭]‬‮٦‬h٪P‮$‬j‮٠(٨‬ٹ) in Nape yesterday.The designated area for buying and selling firecrackers and fireworks in Taipa and the peninsula opened on the 28th of last month and ran through midnight yesterday, attracting Chinese New Year merrymakers to seize the final day.While some bought whole

February 3, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Prince Kung’s Palace Museum CNY painting collection on display in Barra

The “MGM X Prince Kung’s Palace Museum Exhibition and Workshop” is being hosted at the Former Barra Slaughterhouse Site in Barra district and features a collection of works presented in Macau for the first time.Prince Kung’s Palace Museum*, aka Prince Gong’s Mansion and Prince Kung Mansion, is a tourist attraction in Beijing’s Xicheng District. It is a national first-class museum, according to an MGM statement provided on Sunday.The exhibition and workshops are event highlights of

January 28, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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32 artists present works at ‘Good Time’ exhibition

Amagao Gallery’s latest exhibition “Good Time” is showcasing a raft of works by 32 artists of different nationalities until March 17.The free-admission gallery, managed by Galeria 57 (Macau) and located at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau hotel, showcases a total of 38 works by artists from Brazil, the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as France, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Italy, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Thailand, and the US. Among the artworks that exhibitiongoers will

January 24, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Silk screen prints of Alphonse Mucha’s works on display at Lisboeta Macau

A new exhibition titled “Garden of Time – Mucha’s Art Poems” is taking place at Hwa’s Gallery (formerly the Humarish Club) in the Lisboeta Macau H853 Fun Factory complex in Cotai.The exhibition features silk screen print reproductions of posters by Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), a representative painter of the Art Nouveau period (1883–1914).According to Wikipedia, Mucha lived in Paris during the period and was known for his “distinctly

January 23, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Window Cleaning Service features video game & anime music

Local band Window Cleaning Service hosted a Video Game & Anime Music Concert at Sifang Art Space on Saturday night, comprising six young local musicians under the age of 18, all from Macau Anglican College (MAC).The Post published an interview with the band last Wednesday. *The show attracted over 70 attendees, featuring a range of video game and anime music including Mario Kart 8 main theme, Cruel Angel’s Thesis from Evangelion and Merry Go Round of Life from Howls Moving Castle.Girl

January 22, 2025 | BY William Chan

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Lang Lang performs with Macao Orchestra in Galaxy

The nation’s top pianist Lang Lang performed with the Macao Orchestra (OM) under the baton of its principal conductor Lio Kuok Man at the Galaxy International Convention Centre on Sunday.The show attracted a full house. The show commenced with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, after which Lang Lang took centre stage to perform Frédéric Chopin’s 12 Mazurkas, a collection of piano works that capture the spirit of Polish folk music and dance.The highlight of the evening was the

January 22, 2025 | BY William Chan

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Crystal Chan displays 17 acrylics at ‘Subtropical Romance’

Local artist Crystal Wai Man Chan is presenting her emotional connection and fascination with travel through 17 acrylics at an ongoing exhibition titled “Subtropical Romance” at the Taipa Village Art Space.Featuring scenes of tropical plants, fruits, places, along with paintings of people, exhibitiongoers may view the works at the free-admission art space until February 8.On the creation of Chan’s works for her latest exhibition, a statement by the Taipa Village Cultural Association, the

January 21, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Local Filipinos celebrate another vibrant Sinulog Festival

The sound of Sinulog* beats echoed across Praça da Amizade (友誼廣場) yesterday as members of the local Filipino community danced in vibrant costumes in celebration of the highly anticipated Sinulog Festival Macau. The festival is celebrated in Cebu on the third Sunday of January to honour “Santo Niño” – the child Jesus. Its local iteration, which is organised by the Associação do Santo Niño de Cebu em Macau, was first held in 2003.Marking 22 years of celebration in the

January 20, 2025 | BY Interviews by Rui Pastorin

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Philip Colbert’s lobsters take over Macau in city-wide exhibition

Interview by Rui Pastorin        UK contemporary pop artist Philip Colbert’s iconic Lobster cartoon persona is back in Macau, this time in a city-wide multi-venue exhibition presented by integrated resort operator Sands China titled “Coastal Fantasia: The Lobster King’s Vacation in Macao”.Colbert’s has held over 50 solo exhibitions in different parts of the world, with many in Asia. His Lobster persona is the central character of his works. He had previously

January 16, 2025 | BY admin

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Window Cleaning Service to perform video game & anime music

Interview by William Chan        Local band Window Cleaning Service is gearing up to host a Video Game & Anime Music Concert at Sifang Art Space this Saturday night, guitarist Henry Huang Seong Fong said in a recent online interview with the Post.The band, whose members are under the age of 18, includes Huang on the guitar, Diego Lam on keyboards, Vit Polasek on trumpet and violin, Jason Chon on bass, Wyatt Shum on saxophone and Lukas Lei on drums. Saturday’s gig will

January 15, 2025 | BY admin

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Artist shows mixed media works in new solo exhibition

Animals, flowers and even food are among the subjects of local artist Naomi Chan’s paintings of different mediums on display for her latest solo exhibition “Naomi Original Artwork Exhibition”, which is on at the 10 Fantasia gallery until January 30.The gallery is located on Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro (瘋堂斜巷) Kicking off earlier this month, the exhibition features artworks created through pencil sketches, watercolours and acrylics in varying sizes showcased across the

January 14, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Local artist Xiao Xin hopes to raise funds for animal protection groups

Pastels of cats and dogs are covering the walls of the Creative Macau gallery in Nape for local artist Susanne Leong Kin In’s, aka Xiao Xin, latest exhibition “Love and Healing”, which kicked off yesterday. An artist who finds a sense of love and healing in being with dogs and while painting, Leong told the Post that she wants to use her abilities and what she loves to do to raise more funds towards animal charity.During yesterday’s opening ceremony for her exhibition, staff

January 10, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Youngsters showcase raft of works at youth pavilion

A variety of works of different mediums is being shown at the Pavilhão de Exposições e Espectáculos Artísticos para Jovens (“Pavilion of Exhibitions and Artistic Shows for Young People”) in Praça do Tap Seac (塔石廣場), with the presented artworks created by youngsters after participating in recent workshops.On until January 19, the exhibition is entitled Veja-se em 360 - Exposição dos trabalhos dos alunos participantes na actividade “Contacto com a Artes Visuais” (“See

January 9, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Tsang Tseng Tseng presents ‘Chinese Ink Rhythms of Saint Paul’s Church’

Local artist Tsang Tseng Tseng (曾貞貞) is showcasing her art exhibition titled “Chinese Ink Rhythms of Saint Paul’s Church” (三巴墨韻國畫展) at the Rui Cunha Foundation (FRC). The opening ceremony took place yesterday evening.Co-organised by the FRC, the Macau Youth Art Association (澳門青年美術協會), and the Macau Artists Society (澳門美術協會), the exhibition features approximately 40 Chinese ink paintings of various sizes, ranging from large-scale pieces to

January 8, 2025 | BY William Chan

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