The Works：MTR restriction on large-sized music instruments, photographer Daido Moriyama, art in po

On September 15th, a photo of staff refusing to allow a schoolgirl carrying a guzheng to take the MTR appeared on the internet and in the media. Several days later on September 20th and 24th, two individual cellists were targeted by MTR staff for carrying oversized instruments and were escorted out of the system. The incidents sparked a firestorm of complaints. Critics soon began posting images of cross-border parallel traders with numerous oversized goods who seemed to be travelling with impunity while local musicians were stopped.
These days, almost everyone who has a phone has a camera in it. That makes almost all of us photographers. This may make our era the most photographed era of all time. But few of us manage, no matter how many photographs we take, to find the remarkable in the commonplace with the power of the 76-year-old photographer Daido Moriyama.
After World War II, Germany – like most of Europe – had much rebuilding and reconstruction to do. And it wasn’t all physical. The country’s thinkers and artists also had to reconcile with the trauma of war, search for a more positive national identity, and do what they could to forge a new direction for German art, thought, and society. On show at the Ben Brown Gallery until the end of this month, “Aspects of German Art (Part One)”, features works by artists such as Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Markus Lüpertz and many others who took on this daunting task.
Ukulele player Corey Fujimoto listens to a wide range of music genres, from rock, metal to pop and melodic pieces. His eclectic interests even extend to the instruments he wants to pair with the ukulele, including the flute, as he and flautist Zhang Zhiyong are about to demonstrate for us.