Launching of The Sound of Art – Sunday Concert Series at the Hong Kong Museum of Art

The Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art are pleased to invite all members to attend the inaugural concert of the Sunday Concert Series at the Museum 1/F Lobby on 3 January at 3:30pm. Concert programmes will take place on the first Sunday of each month from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. Admission is free.

Tour of the exhibition - New Vision: New Colours

The exhibition features artworks selected from the collection of the Museum in addition to recent works by Hong Kong artists. In these creations the artists express their concern for the environment of Hong Kong and wishes for the future in new multicoloured visions of our world. 

To coincide with the Shanghai World Expo 2010, the Hong Kong Museum of Art will organize two art exhibitions in Shanghai, featuring ink art and interdisciplinary art by Hong Kong artists. The exhibition in Hong Kong is to be a prologue of the shows in Shanghai. Through this combined initiative Hong Kong will present to the world the traditions of Chinese humanitarianism and its recent development. 

The tour of 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture

The Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art are pleased to announce a special tour for members to the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. It is a cooperative cultural event that is shared by the two cities under a Two Cities, One Biennale approach. Completely non-profit and funded by the Home Affairs Bureau, HKSAR Government, the Hong Kong portion of the Bi-City Biennale is aimed at promoting education and public discussion around architecture, urbanism, design and culture in a dynamic exhibition that is free and open to the public. It encourages the active participation of local Hong Kong citizens. CITY MOBILIZATION: BYOB invited citizens to bring their OWN exhibits, to engage and help them join hands to make this Biennale successful. This is an opportunity for members to see what that free participation process has produced. 

The Biennale is an important cultural event to take place on the site of the future West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD). It is intended as an open platform composed with innovative works and thought-provoking installations and experiments by local and international creative talents. 

Participating architects/artists including Marisa Yiu, Eric Schuldenfrei, Kacey Wong, Humphrey Wong , William Lim will join with the curators Marisa Yiu and Eric Schuldenfrei to guide us through the exhibition and provide insight into the ideas on exhibit. 

This is the closing day for the exhibition and therefore your last chance to see it. On that day, most of the artists/architects will be there and there will be morning and afternoon workshop. You are welcomed by the organizers to take part freely.

Annual General Meeting and Lecture 

The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Gifts of Chinese Painting to The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong”, by Professor Kao Mayching 

“First Sight” of recently donated works to the Museum by Wu Guanzhong

Special viewing and cocktail at the Museum

In 2009, internationally acclaimed master of painting Wu Guanzhong offered Hong Kong another generous donation of 33 paintings. Following his donations in 1995 and 2002, the new gift includes 12 oil paintings and 21 ink paintings done between 2005 and 2009. The donation will become a significant part of the permanent collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

A noted painter of the late 20th-early 21st century, Wu is credited with integrating Chinese and Western art. Wu was born in 1919 in Yixing, Jiangsu. In 1946, he won a scholarship to study at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Sup?rieur des Beaux-arts in Paris. In 1950, he returned to China and was assigned to teach at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and later transferred to other institutions. In 1991, he was made an Officer de L’Ordre des Arts et des Letters by the Ministry of Culture of France. In 1992, he became the first living Chinese artist to have a solo exhibition at the British Museum. In 2002, he was the first Chinese artist awarded the M?daille des Arts et Lettres by the Acad?mie des Beaux-arts de L’Institut de France. In 2006, the Chinese University of Hong Kong granted Wu an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

In order to honour Wu’s generous donations and to share this heartfelt gift with the community, the Museum of Art will stage a special exhibition which 51 artworks of Wu’s latest donation along with the Museum’s collection.