News in 2023-2024
ARTH2055 & ARTH2026: No Class on Jan 21
ARTH2055 Crossing Cultures: China and the Outside World There is no class on January 21 (Tuesday 10:30am, CPD434). The first class of this course will be on January 28 (Tuesday 10:30am, CPD434). ARTH2026 The Age of Revolution: Art in Europe, 1750-1840 There is no class on January 21 (Tuesday 12:30pm, CPD434). The first class of this course will be on January 23 (Thursday 12:30pm, CPD434).
Course Changes
Please pay attention to the room change of ARTH2025 The Art of the Baroque (Monday and Thursday 2:30pm). Dr. Opher Mansour will be giving lectures in Run Run Shaw Tower 4.34, NOT the previously scheduled CPD2.14. Also, the quota has been raised to 60 places, so there are now additional slots available on this course. Dr. Alicia Weisberg-Roberts will be teaching ARTH2075 Collecting and Display in Early Modern Europe (Wednesday 2:30pm) while ARTH2057 Arts of West, Central and Southern Africa (Monday 12:30pm) has been cancelled. Please click here for the latest timetable.
Department’s Facebook Page
HKU Department of Fine Arts on Facebook The Department of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the launching of its official facebook page, as a new platform to communicate with current students, alumni, and the wider public. There are various kinds of updates that are not available on the department’s official website. They include visual updates about the department, both academic and non-academic departmental events, publications of the faculty, new purchases of Fine Arts Resource Centre, as well as some local and international art-related functions. We hope that this facebook page is going to provide the audience with supplementary information [...]
Exploration Abroad: “Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900”
Exploring museums and exhibitions in London Dr. Yeewan KOON and Dr. Roslyn Hammers led a group of Fine Arts students to the UK during the first week of December. The main focus of the trip was the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exhibition “Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900” and its two days conference “The Making of Chinese Painting: 700 to the Present.” Students also visited the British Museum, in which they spent some time in viewing the temporary show “Shunga: Sex and Humour in Japanese art, 1600-1900,” learning about the Sir Percival David Collection with Dr. Stacey Pierson, as well [...]
Asian Art Essay Prize 2012-2013
The Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s University of Hong Kong Museum Society Asian Art Essay Prize is Ms. Candy Leung for her essay entitled, “A Study of Paintings of Beautiful Woman by Selected Guangdong Artists in the Early Twentieth Century.” Please join us in congratulating Candy! The winning essay can be viewed here.
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