Subject Keywords & Call Number
Subject Keywords
Call Number
Subject Keywords
Call Number
Visual Arts
N1-9165
Drawing History
NC50-266
Visual Arts History
N5300-7418
Commercial Art
NC997-1003
Art Criticism
N7475-7480
Painting
ND25-3416
Drawing. Design
NC1-1940
Painting Appreciation
ND1143-1145
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Images databases
Articles Databases
Open Access websites
  • Google Art Project
  • More than 40,000 high-resolution images of works ranging from oil on canvas to sculpture and furniture contributed by museums large and small, classic and modern, world-renowned and community-based from over 40 countries can be seen on Google Art Project website.
  • M+ Stories
    This platform is a bilingual online storytelling of M+ , a gateway to access our editorial writings, videos and resources of visual culture of the 20th and 21st century. The platform covers various aspects of visual culture, from artists’ interviews, facts of visual culture, academic writings to special conservation topics etc
  • M+ collections beta website
    opens up access to explore M+ collections - a collections of over 5,000 works of visual culture collected across the world, with focus in Asia region.
  • Web Gallery of Art
    The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries. The database is supplemented by a glossary containing articles on art terms, relevant historical events, personages, cities, museums and churches.
General Resources
  • Artcyclopedia
    An online cyclopedia of art. Student may search for various entries by entering artist’s name, title of an artwork, or name or location of an art museum.
  • Art Encyclopedia
    Art Encyclopedia provides access to a huge collection of educational resources covering everything related to art and its history. Examples of resources include art history, best modern painters, sculpture, photography, world art, museums, art appreciation, timeline of art, prehistoric art, renaissance, painting, A-Z of art movements, analysis of famous paintings, and many more.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
    DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
  • Mother of All Art History Links Pages from University of Michigan Museum of Art
    It provides links to pages of art history departments, research resources, resources for visual collections, image collections and online art, sampling of online digital art, fine art schools and departments, art museums, and textual and linguistic resources.
  • Oxford Art Online
    Offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway, users can access and cross-search Oxford’s acclaimed, regularly updated art reference works: the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
  • PA:PER (Performing arts : practice, education and research)
    This issue includes eleven peer-reviewed papers from several performing arts areas, including but no limited to Music, Chinese Musical, Drama, Cantonese Opera, and Dance.
  • WikiArt
    WikiArt is an online repository of world's visual arts. The site features over 200.000 artworks by 3000 artists from all around the world. Art resources provided by WikiArt include art movements, art schools and groups, art institutions, artwork genres and styles, short films, and many more. 
Specific Resources
  • Art history resources on the Web
    Detailed resources about art history can be found on the website.
  • Rhizome
    An online resource for people who are interested in new media art, the intersection of new technologies and contemporary art.
Museums & Arts Organizations
  • Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture
    HKICC is a non-profit, non-government community-initiated organization. The website provides information, news, education, and event about art.
  • Hong Kong Museum of Art
    The Hong Kong Museum of Art is one of the museums managed by the Leisure & Cultural Services Department. Its collections now number in excess of 16,000 art objects, including Chinese paintings and calligraphy works, antique Chinese treasures, paintings of historical significance as well as creations by local artists.
  • M+ museum
    M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, xhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
  • The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
    The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, established by The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Ordinance in 1984, is a leading tertiary institution for the performing arts in Asia.
  • University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU
    The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) is conveniently located at the main entrance of The University of Hong Kong on Bonham Road. Its collections have grown to over one thousand and eighty items of Chinese antiquities, notably bronzes, ceramics and paintings.
  • 香港故宮文化博物館
    香港故宮文化博物館展示九百多件來自故宮博物院的珍貴文物,不少都是首次於香港公開展出。當中部分藏品更是從未對外公開展出。博物館亦定期舉辦有關中國文化藝術的特別展覽,以及來自世界各地的藝術珍品。
Overseas Museums & Arts Organizations
  • Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    The Centre Pompidou is tasked with maintaining and developing a national collection of modern and contemporary art in France and with more than 60,000 works constitute the largest collection in Europe of modern and contemporary art. It covers the XX and XXI centuries through artists which artworks had major influence in recent years.
  • Louvre Museum
    One of the world’s largest museums and a historic monument. Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square meters (652,300 square feet).
  • MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art. There are some information about exhibition, programs and education held by the museum. Collections held by the museum can be found in digital format on the website as well.
  • Musée d’Orsay
    The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
    The Collection exhibition galleries present exhibitions of work from our collection of approximately 4,700, that have been acquired either for their historical significance or because they are by young artists representative of the current art scene, offering systematic introductions to postwar art history both at home and abroad or arranged according to various themes.
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    The Museum of Modern Art’s collection has grown to include over 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects.
  • New Museum, New York, NY, The
    Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum.
  • Tate Modern, London, England
    The Tate Modern is a separate gallery of the Tate Museum devoted to international modern and contemporary art in London.
  • The British Museum, UK
    Its eight million objects allow us to explore the extraordinary diversity of human cultures, from small communities to vast empires, to discover the many forms and expressions human beings have given to every aspect of life, and to realise how closely they are interconnected.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.