Category: Words
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China: Through the Looking Glass | Book Review
I’ve recently made it my mission to read more art books. I’ve always been an avid reader, and currently, I’ve been wanting to try reading new genres beyond fiction. The China: Through the Looking Glass catalogue was my first step into that! China: Through the Looking Glass was a huge blockbuster exhibition happening at the…
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Christmas In Art
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in WordsSpent a really eventful Christmas Eve and Christmas in Hong Kong this year! It’s really funny to see the residential areas being so strangely quiet, and then you go out to Tsim Sha Tsui and it’s like, everyone decided to hang out here so come join the party! Beyond all the sparkling lights, decorations, sweet carols,…
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Vincent | The Song and the Artist
It’s been a busy semester so far and I would love to have another holiday again! Right now, it feels great to relax in a bit of song and art. This brings me back to a conversation that I had with my mum about that familiar refrain “starry starry night”… I went to look it…
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Two Cents’ Worth | Opinion on ‘What Is (Good) Art?’
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in WordsThere are times when art seems to be laden with so many complications than it should be. Why can’t art just be something beautiful to look at? What is art? What makes something a work of art? So many questions, but always so many debates and no real answers. Some debates are centered in the…
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The Case for Studying Art History
Update (30th July 2020): This post was previously titled ‘The Case for Studying Fine Arts‘ as I was studying at the University of Hong Kong, and their Department of Art History was named the Department of Fine Arts at the time. Now that HKU’s Department of Art History has updated its name, it’s also time…