MA in Art History 2024-2025
MA in Art History 2024-2025 is now OPEN for application HKU is the first university in Hong Kong to offer a Master of Arts in Art History. Our [...]
Early closure of Office & Resource Centre (Sept 29)
The Art History Office (Run Run Shaw Tower 10.33) & Resource Centre (Run Run Shaw Tower 10.29) will be closing at 4 pm on Sept 29.
Changes in Art History courses offerings
First semester: ARTH2025: Art of the Baroque ca. 1560-1720 and ARTH2072 Western architecture from Antiquity to Enlightenment will not be offered in the first semester. We will offer a different [...]
Class schedule: ARTH3014 & ARTH7002 (First semester)
Dr. Angie Baecker’s courses, ARTH3014 The whys of where: an East Asian art history of imaginative geographies and ARTH7002 Art history: materials, techniques, and collections in the first semester, will start during [...]
Class schedule: ARTH2118 & ARTH4004 (Second semester)
Prof. Joshua Shannon's courses, ARTH2118 Finding “Nature”: Ecology in Western Modern Art and ARTH4004: Perspectives in Art History in the second semester, will have late starting dates. They will begin in [...]
Server Maintenance (Summer 2023)
The department server is scheduled for maintenance on 20 June 2023. On the day, the department website and other online databases (including FAIVA) may be inaccessible. They will resume normal [...]
Update: ARTH2088 (Summer semester)
The Art History Department will be offering ARTH2088 Introduction to the material culture of China in the coming summer semester. The add/drop period will be from June 13, 10 [...]
Susan Chen Foundation & Orientations Young Art Writers Award
The Susan Chen Foundation and Orientations magazine are pleased to launch a global competition for art research and writing on Chinese art, with the winner gaining the opportunity [...]
Temporary suspension of Art History book circulation
Please note that our Resource Centre's book circulation system will be suspended from May 2 to 3, 2023 to facilitate the system upgrade. The system is expected to resume [...]
Extension of MA application deadline: 10 May 2023
We have extended the application deadline to 10 May 2023, 12 noon. Our HKU Master of Arts in Art History (MAAH) programme is the first MA in Hong [...]
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