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Ung Vai Meng

A photograph taken in the 1970s by Lei Chiu Vang depicts the Macao Gongbei Barrier Gate, which has gone through many changes over the past decades

The history keepers

Can you truly understand a place without knowing its past? Meet the people keeping Macao’s fascinating history alive.

Office in Iao Hon

Dreams come alive in Venice

Local art group YiiMa head to the 59th Venice Biennale with their compelling “Allegory of Dreams”, an exhibition that sheds light on Macao’s past and explores what it means to be a human. Here are the highlights of the exhibition in Venice.

Art

Artists in residence

A range of Macao’s artistic talent is now on show at the newly opened Grand Lisboa Palace, which highlights the city’s East-meets-West character in a truly creative manner.

In group portraits, male and female ancestors usually stand in alternating lines

Faces to Remember

Art historian and painter Ung Vai Meng’s book, Ancestor Portraits in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is the fruit of two decades of intensive research on the lesser-known genre.