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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam
Organized by International Arts & Artists, this is the first major exhibition in the United States of work by contemporary Vietnamese women artists. Paintings, ink drawings, photography, video performances and multi-media installations by ten artists illuminate their personal perspectives on Vietnamese culture and society and the changing role of women in Vietnam. Learn more about this traveling exhibition.
Power and Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
June 27-September 21, 2008
Power and Glory travels to the Indianapolis Museum of Art (October 26, 2008 - January 11, 2009) and the St. Louis Art Museum (February 21 - May 17, 2009).
Ming, meaning “bright,” was chosen as the name for what became China’s last native-ruled imperial dynasty, which was established in 1368 when Han Chinese rebels overthrew the Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. The 276 years of Ming rule, which came to an end in 1644 when Manchu invaders overtook Beijing, were marked by political stability, economic strength and vibrant arts.
This exhibition devoted to the court arts of the Ming Dynasty of China displays more than 200 objects reflecting themes of architecture and the court environment; official court life; religion and ritual; the court at leisure; and science and technology. Artworks from Chinese museum collections, including paintings, jades, textiles, lacquer and porcelains, are paired with recently excavated artifacts from the imperial shipyards and tombs of the aristocracy.
The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
November 16, 2008 – April 19, 2009
The unearthing in China in 1974 of an army of life-size terracotta warriors in the tomb complex of Qin Shihuangdi, China’s first emperor (r. 221-210 BC), dazzled the world. Although the tomb site, covering 56 square kilometers on the outskirts of present day Xi’an, was described in historical records dating back two millennia, the extent of the underground complex and the existence of the terracotta army had been previously unknown. Qin Shihuangdi is recognized as the first emperor because, through conquest of the kingdoms surrounding his own kingdom of Qin, he first created the unified empire that has survived, essentially uninterrupted until today, as China.
In addition to featuring 20 of the well known terracotta soldiers, the largest number ever to travel outside of China, the exhibition displays other artifacts from the site, many excavated in the last decade. The objects, including bronze bells and statues of water birds, food vessels, weights and measures, weapons, armor and sculpture, bring new perspectives on this formative period of Chinese history. For additional information, visit the website of the High Museum.
Past Exhibitions
Bon: The Magic Word
Rubin Museum of Art
October 5, 2007 through April 14, 2008
This exhibition explores the richness of Bon culture, art and spiritual traditions. The Bon faith is said to have originated several thousand years ago in Central Asia, from whence it spread east, eventually arriving in the Himalayan region prior to the advance of Buddhism onto the Tibetan Plateau in the 7th century. Practitioners of Bon are made up of many ethnicities and language groups, including Tibetans, Nepalese, the Naxi of southwest China, and the Kinnauri of North India. Co-curators Jeff Watt and Samten Karmay have selected works of art and material artifacts from the Rubin Museum of Art and other collections to introduce the Bon culture and religion, including Bon founders and teachers, deities, sacred geography, expressions of culture, and aesthetics.
Force of Nature
Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter South Carolina
April 28 through June 22, 2007
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston (Charleston, SC) collaborated with the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College (Davidson, NC) to support residencies for Japanese artists at these two institutions and five partnering institutions in the Carolinas. The artists created installations at the different sites in September and October 2006. Using locally available natural materials (such as salt, wood, earth, plant life) or natural elements and processes (such as wind, fire, water, decay, evaporation), the artists explored the relationship between humans and nature.
The partner institutions were the College of Architecture at the University of North Carolina (Charlotte, NC), the Clemson Architecture Center (Charleston, SC), the Winthrop University Galleries (Rock Hill, SC), the McColl Center for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC) and the Sumter County Gallery of Art (Sumter, SC).
A capstone exhibition bringing together documentation from the various parts of the project took place at the Sumter Gallery of Art, April 28 through June 22, 2007.
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