Bulletin No. 1, 2014

Culture—Its Creation, Preservation and Promotion  17  “Notable Horses in Chinese Culture: Celebrating the Year of the Horse”. In April, we joined hands with the Department of Fine Arts to hold “The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Calligraphy”. A Framework of Agreement on Cooperation will soon be signed with the Palace Museum in Beijing. Staff of the Art Museum contribute to teaching in the Department of Fine Arts while making our collections available to departments and units for teaching and research purposes.’ Looking ahead, Professor Yiu added that the museum will keep on mounting high quality exhibitions, as well as exploring new topics and expanding collaborations with other museums. The recent exhibition on ‘Two Masters, Two Generations, and One Vision for Modern Chinese Painting’, jointly organized by CUHK and the University of Oxford, showcased the influences of two acclaimed modern Chinese artists, Gao Jianfu and Lui Shou-kwan. Professor Yiu reported that a bonus of the exhibition was that the museum received two works by Lui Shou-kwan. The museum has recently streamlined manpower and resources to strengthen its work in education and outreaching. Professor Yiu said, ‘Through promotion, we aim at showing the general public that art is a part of daily life. For example, we held public talks in town or Guqin concert in the museum. The exhibition on “The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Calligraphy” features not only calligraphic work, but also showcases a variety of texts, images as well as calligraphy tools.