Journeys East
dal 20/2/2009 al 30/3/2009
Segnalato da
20/2/2009
Journeys East
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The exhibition considers Isabella Gardner's continuing dialogue with Asia, from her trips to the Near and Far East, to the formation of a personal museum where Asian art played a significant role. The display thus explores the complex interaction of travel, collecting, and museum formation.
Journeys East considers Isabella Gardner’s continuing dialogue with Asia, from her trips to the Near and Far East, to the formation of a personal museum where Asian art played a significant role. Later in life, her close friendship with Okakura Kakuzo initiated a new phase of collecting Asian art and led to a rearrangement of the museum. The exhibition explores the complex interaction of travel, collecting, and museum formation. On display will be Gardner’s travel albums and Asian objects ranging from Japanese screens to a monumental bronze Buddha, Indian jewelry to Chinese snuff bottles.
The exhibition has been made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition (available spring 2009).
Journeys East Programs
Exhibition programs offer more ways to engage in art and ideas at the Gardner. Explore themes with leading scholars; bring the family for a discovery day.
Special Exhibition Gallery Talks
Saturdays and Sundays @ Noon
Free with museum admission
Especially for Families
Discovery Saturday
Saturday, March 14 @ 11:30am–4:45pm
Free with museum admission
Explore the art and culture of Asia through this special day of discovery presented in partnership with the Chinese Culture Connection! Take part in art-making and looking activities, storytelling, and music performances and demonstrations.
Conversation and Catalogue Release
Thursday, March 26 @ 6:30pm
Tickets
Professor Noriko Murai of Japan’s Temple University joins Curator of the Collection Alan Chong and Assistant Curator Richard Lingner for this conversation on Isabella Gardner’s varied responses to Asia, including her deepening interest in Asian religions.
Inventing Asia: A Symposium on American Perceptions and Influences around 1900
Symposium and Keynote Lecture:
Friday, April 3 @ 4–7:30pm
Symposium continues:
Saturday, April 4 @ 9:30am–5pm
Tickets (include Keynote Lecture and both days of Symposium):
Held in conjunction with Journeys East, Inventing Asia examines a variety of subjects surrounding the collection of Asian art and the impact of Asian culture on America circa 1900, including art, literature, religion, fashion, gardens, and early cinema.
Keynote Lecture (Friday @ 6:30 pm):
Christine Guth, Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Artist-in-Residence Conversation:
Zhang Peili
Thursday, April 23 @ 6:30pm
Tickets
Video artist Zhang Peili is a pioneer in contemporary Chinese art and part of its growing
international profile. Tonight Zhang discusses the history and future of video in his country and previews examples of his recent work.
Stout Memorial Lecture
Rebuilding the Fragments of a Dream: The Conservation of Juanqinzhai
Lecture and Reception:
Thursday, April 30 @ 6:30pm
Tickets
The Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) was instrumental in the design of a complex of
courtyards and gardens in the Forbidden City. Juanqinzhai, the ‘Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service,’ is the most private and celebrated of these buildings due in part to
the trompe l’oeil murals and the decorative surfaces executed in hardwoods, fine veneers, jade, and embroidered silk. The five-year conservation of Juanqinzhai was conducted by the World Monuments Fund and the Palace Museum, Beijing, and was completed in November 2008.
Guest speakers: T. K. McClintock, Director of Studio TKM and Chief Technical Advisor to the World Monuments Fund on the conservation of Juanqinzhai; and John H. Stubbs, Vice President for Field Projects, World Monuments Fund, New York
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