Art from All Angles

Named UMAG STArts, the initiative comprises a series of programmes that link with the Museum’s permanent collections and highlight interdisciplinary studies of art history, novel technologies and conservation and their multiple crossover points within science,...

Hollywood’s Cosy Ties with the US Military

After the World Trade Centre in New York was attacked in 2001, the 9/11 Commission concluded that American security forces had fallen short due to a ‘failure of imagination’. It is a failure that the military is trying to ensure will not happen again. From...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

Eileen Chang (1920–1995) began her writing career in the early 1940s in the Japanese-occupied city of Shanghai and went on to become the most prominent author and public intellectual in the besieged city. Educated bilingually from an early age, she enrolled at HKU in...

True Colours

The unique artistic collaboration began with Georges Thiry, a man who worked for Belgium’s colonial offices in Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) in the Congo in 1926. His curiosity was piqued when he saw wall murals of crocodiles and birds in the town and arranged to...

Drawing Rhythm from the Algorithm

Dr Hu Xiao has a unique understanding of the power of music. For more than 15 years, she has used data to unleash new possibilities from music. Two groundbreaking models she developed automatically recognise the mood of music and have received hundreds of citations...