Our Tenth Season is underway! Please join
us for an exciting season of lectures and trips to museums, galleries and private collections.
2009
October
Wednesday, October 21st, 5:45 p.m.
An Evening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as the guest of Jane Portal,
Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa.
Your Choice of Two of Four Gallery talks on the Current Exhibitions by
Curators Anne Nishimura Morse, Hiromi Kinoshita, Sarah Thompson and
Paper Conservator Joan Wright, who will present the exhibition Glorious
Beasts in Persian Painting, to which her fellow presenter artist Conley Harris
has contributed his own paintings and drawings. The other three exhibitions
are Luxuries from Japan: Cultural Exchange in the 17th and 18th centuries,
Tibet/China Confluences and Echoes of Heian-Kyo: Court Culture in the
Floating World.
The gallery talks will be followed by a Reception in the offices of the Department.
November
Saturday, November 14th, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Bus trip to New York City and the autumn museum exhibitions and dealer shows.
Organized by Henry Harrison
December
Sunday, December 6 th, 2:30 p.m. (Please note this starting time.)
“First Look: the 1790-1795 van Braam Albums of the Interior of China”,
a lecture by Bruce MacLaren, Associate Curator of Chinese Art,
Peabody Essex Museum.
This will be the story of an extensive set of paintings illustrating life in
China at the end of the 18th-century, which came to constitute the first
exhibition of Chinese art in the young United States, and of Americans’
critical reception.
Location: Wellesley Community Center
Organized by Marilyn Hamburger
2010
January
Sunday, January 17 th, 2:30 p.m.
“Numbered Jun Ware”, a lecture by Robert D. Mowry,
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the
Department of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
Location: the Lee Street residence of Dorothy Braude Edinburg
Organized by Steve Gaskin
February
Sunday, February 7 th, 2:30 p.m.
A lecture on the legendary dealer of Chinese art Alice Boney by distinguished
collector and author John Fong, MD.
Location: to be announced in the invitation
Organized by Marilyn Hamburger
March
Sunday, March 7 th, 2:30 p.m.
A lecture on The Moon Garden, in Agra, India by James L. Wescoat, Jr.,
Aga Khan Professor, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Built by Shah Jehan at the same time as the Taj Mahal, this 25 acre garden
was intended as the principal viewing site in the moonlight of the great
mausoleum across the Jamuna River. It has been undergoing extensive
renovations, the recent progress of which Professor Wescoat will report on
in this presentation.
Location: Wellesley Community Center
Organized by Howard Truelove and Conley Harris
Sunday, March 21 st, 2:30 p.m.
“Chinese Textiles of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911): Symbols of Influence and Power”, a lecture by Judith Rutherford, internationally renowned specialist in the field of Chinese textiles.
Location: Wellesley Community Center
Organized by Marilyn Hamburger
Saturday, March 27 th, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Bus trip to the attractions of Asian Art Week, New York City
Organized by Henry Harrison
April
Sunday, April 11th, 2:30 p.m.
" The Spirit of the Chrysanthemum " (Kiku no sei mongatari) and Flower Personification in Medieval Japanese Art , a lecture by Melissa McCormick, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University.
A common visual and literary trope in medieval Japan is the flower which materializes in a masculine form. Professor McCormick will use " The Spirit of the Chrysanthemum", a sixteenth-century Japanese illustrated narrative scroll as the starting point for a consideration of how flower personification structures medieval Japanese illustrated narratives, metaphorically, allegorically, and symbolically.
Location: Wellesley Community Center
Organized by: Henry Harrison
Sunday, April 18 th, 2:30 p.m.
“Zen Buddhism and Japanese Painting”, a lecture by Yukio Lippit, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of Art and Architecture, Harvard University.
Location: To be announced in the invitation
Organized by Henry Harrison
May
Nothing!
June
Sunday, June 6th, 2:30 p.m.
Tenth Anniversary Celebration
A lecture on the Appreciation and Authentication of Yuan Blue and White Porcelain by Steve Gaskin, President of the Asian Art Society of New England
Location: at the home of John and Olivia Parker, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Organized by Henry Harrison