Slides
In a dark classroom, you hear the sound of the slide machine, and your gaze follows the gently dancing dust along the projector’s beam of light… memories of seeing [...]
The Two Tams at HKMoA
Everyone in the field is looking forward to the reopening of Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) in November. Examining the museum’s history and its list of Chief Curators, [...]
Department Trips
Learning about art from books and on screens is fascinating, but seeing works in situ, examining masterpieces in close proximity, feeling their scale and texture, such experience is just incomparable. [...]
The First Syllabus
The enrollment period for 2019-2020 has just begun. Students are now busy with course selection online, checking from time to time to see if they can get into the [...]
1965 Senate Minutes
The University Archives is one cool place! It houses a century of university documents. When you turn the wheels of the rolling stacks, when you open the box cover, when your [...]
Timber Hut
The Department Office of Fine Arts was temporarily housed in Timber Hut before moving to Fung Ping Shan Building in 1979. Timber Hut 松舍 once stood on [...]
Prologue: Before 1978
The Department of Fine Arts was established in 1978, but the teaching of art history at HKU did not begin that year. More than two decades earlier, in 1953, [...]
Chuang Shen: Beauty of the Origin
“On 9th December, 1998, the Department of Fine Arts hosted a grand banquet in celebration of its 20th anniversary…When teacher Chuang and his wife entered the room, everybody, [...]
Department’s New IG
We are pleased to announce the launch of our department's new Instagram account! Explore more about Art History at HKU in a fun way! There will be interviews, [...]
New Name: The Department of Art History
Dear Students, Colleagues, and Friends, The Department of Fine Arts will be undergoing a major change. From September 2020, we will be officially known under a new name: The [...]
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