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The release of “Iron Man 3” marks the beginning of summer blockbuster season. The next few months will be filled with huge popcorn flicks with even larger budgets, and if we’re lucky, one or two of them might turn out to be more than mindless dreck. Though we...
Hong Kong may not have the streetside cafe culture of Paris for our artists, designers, musicians, and other talents to gather at, but we have our own style of hangouts for the creative community. Some of these watering holes and cafes are found in factories...
Considering how few of us actually want to relive our youth, it’s amazing how many films focus on this period in a character’s life. Fortunately, movies about those tender years between tween and 20-something rarely resemble what we ourselves actually went...
We’ve reached the middle of March, and that means it’s time for Austin’s fabled South by Southwest music festival again. Though it’s expanded to include a movie competition and a tech showcase, music still tends to steal the spotlight. With that in mind, here...
MEXICO CITY – This year’s edition of Mexico’s biggest music event begins on Thursday, and will last through the weekend with international acts joining the fray, including Morrissey, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Silversun Pickups, Tame Impala and Underworld.BLOUIN...
For the second time in two weeks a director who made his name in world cinema is seeing his English language debut appear on screens in American multiplexes. Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev, who directed the original Swedish adaptation of “The Girl With...
From indie electronica to classical opera, ARTINFO picks the top international music acts gracing Hong Kong stages this spring. Mumiy TrollContemporary Russian music is now divided between what came before and after Mumiy Troll. The band is the most...
A painting by Chinese master Zao Wou-ki leads the Sotheby’s contemporary art auction series in Hong Kong this April. Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Sales 2013 will be held April 3-8 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The marathon of auctions...
VALENTINES TO MARLENE The seven artificial masterpieces of exotica in which Josef von Sternberg directed (and fetishized) Marlene Dietrich are unequaled in their sardonic celebration of desire, against which mere romance doesn’t...
You know that friend who goes on and on about how Valentine’s Day is exploitative and created by corporations as a way to make money? Side B of ARTINFO’s Valentine’s Day mixtape is dedicated to him, filled with bitter and angry songs to get him through the...
