Department of Art History, HKU

Department of Art History presents
Lee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation
Lee Mingwei’s (b.1964, Taiwan) artistic practice incorporates aspects of installation, performance, and participation. Inspired by multiple sources, his works follow no set medium or material and are often repeated in different locations. Through his iterative projects he builds connectedness and helps us see art as a space for transformation and change. This talk will cover key works in Lee’s career, giving special attention to the large-scale sand painting installation Guernica in Sand currently on view at M+.

Date: 24th March 2025 (Monday)
Time: 1-2:30pm
Venue: Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU (HKU MTR A2 exit)
Registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=99183
Speaker: Pauline J. Yao

https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/lee-mingwei-and-the-art-of-transformation/

Department of Art History presents

The Art World 2025: Blurred lines and new realities
How social media, geopolitics, creative industries and generational shifts are rapidly reshaping the art world’s markets and modus operandi.

Date: 23rd March 2025 (Sunday)
Time: 2-3:30pm
Venue: Grand Hall, Centennial Campus, HKU (click here for directions)
Registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98857
Free seating

Speaker: Marc Spiegler (Cultural Strategist)

https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-art-world-2025-blurred-lines-and-new-realities/

Resource Centre Fai-chun Party

Date: 21 & 22 January 2025 (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-5pm
Venue: Art History Resource Centre, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Our Fai-Chun Party is an informal festive gathering for students to drop in and try their hand at couplet writing. Tools and materials, including ink and brushes, red paper of different sizes and shapes, will be provided. Even if you are new to this local tradition, our staff will be around to give more guidance if needed.

Come and make your own fai-chun, and help decorate our space with your blessings!

No registration is required. Bring your friends, the more the merrier!

Research Seminar Series 2024/25
Where Does A Painting End?
Date: 30 October 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Venue: CPD 2.58, Centennial Campus, HKU (free seating)
Speaker: Prof. Yeewan Koon

Abstract
This presentation is of an ongoing project examining the conceit of a copy and pictorial wit in the Ming dynasty, a time when a sophisticated art market for forgeries and originals was forming. By interrogating traditional paradigms of understanding copies, this paper considers how artists employed emulative strategies to reflect on how paintings – as artifact and as image – inhabit their own social and cultural worlds. It asks what is the implication of a “double-looking” that demands acknowledging the presence of original artworks (and not of a former artist) within the replicant? Challenging the biases of historical lineages in our current art canon, the speaker proposes that copies were instrumental in the making of visual knowledge and, more importantly, reveal what happens when copies escape time.

https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/where-does-a-painting-end/

HKU Information Day
Date: 26 October 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 9am – 6pm
Venue: Centennial Campus

Our booth will be set up in CPD-LG.07. Find out more about Art History and our students’ learning experience inside and outside the classroom.

Prof. Thomas will give a special lecture on Impressionism at 10am in CPD-3.04 and a more general programme overview talk at 11:30am in CPD-LG.62.

If you are keen on technology, try our Buddhaverse: VR Dunhuang in CPD-LG.41 as well. No registration is required, but first come first served!

https://www.infoday.hku.hk/arts