2010

September

  
  
Sunday, September 26th, 2:30 p.m.
   
The Deer (Mandala)Hunt
A lecture by distinguished collector and scholar Sylvan Barnet
   
Drawing from his research for a Orientations article to be
published in 2011, Society colleague Sylvan Barnet will describe
the origins and iconography of this Japanese form of mandala,
which combines Shinto and Buddhist elements and is found
in both painted and sculpted types. His talk will be illustrated
by examples in Japanese and American collections and also,
by two Deer Mandala paintings, which Bill Burto and Sylvan had
sought to acquire for their collection for more than two decades.

Location: the home of Dorothy Braude Edinburg

Organized by Marilyn Hamburger and Steve Gaskin
   

   
October

   
Saturday, October 16th, 10:30 a.m.
   
A tour of the Peabody Essex Museum exhibition, The Emperor’s
Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City, by
Nancy Berliner, PhD, Curator of Chinese Art, Peabody Essex
Museum
       
Our guide for this show has been deeply involved with
the restoration of the Qianlong Emperor’s retirement garden,
its pavilions and their remarkable interiors and furnishings,
in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and the Palace
Museum, Beijing, over the last ten years.
   
Location: Peabody Essex Museum
   
Organized by Henry Harrison

   
   
Saturday and Sunday, October 30th and 31st
   
Trip to Washington D.C. and exhibitions at the Freer and Sackler
Galleries. (planning is incomplete).
   
The exhibitions for which we are attempting to retain guides with
expertise are, Masterpieces of Chinese Painting at the Freer Gallery
and Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of
Cambodia at the Sackler Gallery.
   
For details about travel and accommodations, please contact Henry
Harrison at henry60h@yahoo.com or at 617 460-0225.

   
   
November

Sunday, November 14th, 2:30 p.m.

   
Flowers and Birds in Chinese Art
A lecture by Maggie Bickford, PhD, Professor of Art and Architecture,
Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University
   
Location: Wellesley Community Center
   
Organized by Abigail Homer
   


December

   
No December Event

   
   
2011

January

   
Sunday, January 9th, 2:30 p.m.
   

First Under Heaven: Korean Ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty
(918-1392)
A lecture by Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of
Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art, Arthur M.
Sackler Musem; Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art,
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
University
   
Location: the home of Dorothy Braude Edinburg
   
Organized by Steve Gaskin

   
   
February

   
Sunday, February 6th, 2:30 p.m.
       

 Inside the World of the Islamic Calligrapher
A lecture by Mary McWilliams, PhD, Norma Jean Calderwood
Curator of Islamic Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard
University 
   
Location to be announced in the invitation
   
Organized by Conley Harris and Howard Truelove 
   
   
   
March
   
Saturday, March 26th, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
   
Bus trip to New York City and the attractions of Asian Art Week
   
Organized by Henry Harrison
   
   
April

       
Sunday, April 10th, 2:30 p.m.

       
A lecture on classical Chinese painting by Anne DeCoursey Clapp,
Professor of the History of Art (retired), Wellesley College
       
Location to be announced
       
Organized by Anne DeCoursey Clapp and Henry Harrison