Mid-Autumn Festival, 1969
Ink and colors on paper
by Liu Guosong (© Estate of Liu Guosong. Photograph © Asian Art Museum)
Woman's Informal Coat with Scenes from "The Red Chamber", Approx. 1900-1950
Silk
by Anonymous (Asian Art Museum, Gift of Merrill Randol Sherwin and Dr. Stephen A. Sherwin, 2014.2. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. )
September 30
10:30 am–12:30 pm
Dr. Nora Taylor, Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will deliver a lecture on colonial and post-independent art education in Vietnam and Cambodia as part of the Fall 2016 "Arts of Asia" Lecture Series, "From Monet to Ai Wei Wei: How We Got Here."
October 1
1:30 pm–3:30 pm
Dr. Ellen Huang, Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, will give an illustrated talk on the various materials , such as furniture, costumes, ceramics which are described and appear as backdrops, in the famous Chinese novel " The Dream of the Red Chamber"
October 7
10:30 am–12:30 pm
Dr. Karin Oen, Asst. Curator of Contemporary Art at the Asian Art Museum, will deliver a lecture on mid-twentieth century art as part of the Fall 2016 "Arts of Asia" Lecture Series, "From Monet to Ai Wei Wei: How We Got Here."
Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean, Southeast Asian, Himalayan & Central Asian, Islamic & Middle Eastern
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