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Looking After the Past: Conservation at the National Gallery, London

Rayson Huang Theatre Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU, Hong Kong

Looking After the Past: Conservation at the National Gallery, London Date: 11 October 2016 (Tuesday) Time: 6:30pm Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU The preservation of the National Gallery’s famous collection [...]

Catholic Realism in the Qing Court

Asia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

One of the greatest cases of Sino-European cultural interaction before 1911 took place in the Qing court when emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong hosted and patronized a number of Jesuit artists and artisans from Europe. The Jesuits were trying to impress the emperors with supposedly superior scientific knowledge in order to help spread Christianity in China, while the emperors integrated the missionaries’ foreign painting techniques into court art to extend their own political ends.

Rome and her Legacy

Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture Rome and her Legacy: Classical Art in the 21st Century Date:  21 April 2020 (Tuesday) Time: 6:30-7:30pm Registration: Click here to register via Zoom (With [...]

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Writing Nara Yoshitomo

Asia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Writing Nara Yoshitomo: A Conversation with Author Yeewan Koon Drink Reception 6:30pm Discussion 7:00pm Close 8:00pm Yeewan Koon, author of Nara Yoshitomo (Phaidon, 2020), will join us in an evening [...]

An Unexpected Masterpiece

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Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture An Unexpected Masterpiece: Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll Date:  9 September 2020 (Wednesday) Time: 6:30-7:30pm Registration: Click here to join the Free Facebook [...]