Patrick Lau

is an arts and culture writer.

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Culture December 04, 2024

My City Is Yours at AGNSW

In My City Is Yours at the Art Gallery of NSW, Beijing artist Cao Fei offers uncanny visions of lost futures and melancholy presents.

Life June 08, 2024

The marathon tourism boom and Salzburg’s Mozart 100

What was once known as a ‘dirtbag’ sport has become a tourism-driven enterprise – but as the competitors in Salzburg’s Mozart 100 know, an ultramarathon is still a long, long way to run.

Culture June 10, 2023

Scenes from the Climate Era

Belvoir’s Scenes from the Climate Era makes its audience complicit in the action on stage, giving the vast disaster of climate change a human scale.

Travel November 04, 2017

London’s Archipelago restuarant

Amid the excess of Archipelago’s Empire-themed decor, a diner can test their appetite for the London restaurant’s insect dishes.

Travel March 11, 2017

Blanco Renaissance Museum, Ubud, Bali

Above Ubud’s thronging streets there’s an eerie quiet within a Spanish artist’s rococo fantasy filled with nudes and Michael Jackson.

Travel May 21, 2016

Gothenburg’s Malm Whale

Sweden’s cosmopolitan and historic port city of Gothenburg is home to the world’s only preserved blue whale.

Travel October 10, 2015

Jakarta’s Taman Mini Indonesia Indah cultural theme park

A visit to a theme park where the theme is the nation itself, and the tourists are locals.

Travel August 29, 2015

A run through the jungle with Kuala Lumpur’s ‘hashers’

Why the arcane “hashers” of Kuala Lumpur’s Royal Selangor Club profess to being “a drinking club with a running problem”.