Tag: Painting

  • Art Basel Hong Kong 2015 | Part I

    Art Basel Hong Kong 2015 | Part I

    It’s taken a while for this Art Basel post with my busy month of school work but it’s finally here! This was my second time attending the fair and I really enjoyed myself again. Art Basel Hong Kong offers a broad range of artworks that runs the gamut from impressive to amusing to introspective, and…

  • Art Central 2015

    Art Central 2015

    The packed month of March has just passed and I’m getting a little breather myself during this long holiday! I’m finally getting round to talking about Art Central, the newest art fair that debuted in Hong Kong. It was a 3-day affair from 14-16 March and I went on the second day. I didn’t know this earlier but…

  • Hong Kong Museum of Art | Part II

    Hong Kong Museum of Art | Part II

    A quick writeup of the other four exhibitions ongoing at the Hong Kong Museum of Art! They provide a good contemporary art counterpart to the older works in the The Four Gentlemen exhibition. Here are my favorites and highlights!

  • The Four Gentlemen

    The Four Gentlemen

    Just the other weekend, I went to see The Four Gentlemen exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. I was really excited to see some Chinese paintings after having learnt some of them and it turns out that this is an exhibition of paintings from the museum’s collection, which I didn’t manage to check out earlier!…

  • The Case for Studying Art History

    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…