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ARTiculations

An international symposium in conjunction with the exhibition "Outside-In: Chinese × American × Contemporary Art" on view at the Princeton University Art Museum
7 March–7 June 2009.

Saturday, 7 March 2009

9:00 am−5:30 pm

Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50,
Princeton University

 

Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Princeton University Art Museum

 

 

Articulations

 

 

 

"ARTiculations" intends to give voice to the six Artists in the exhibition "Outside In" complemented with remarks from several scholars who will offer different perspectives on contemporary art. The major goals of the symposium and the exhibition are to show the great diversity of what we call "Chinese" art today and to illustrate how complex and uncertain the labels "contemporary," "Chinese," and even "American" have become ("art" has always been uncertain).

The featured artists of the exhibition include Arnold Chang, Michael Cherney, Zhi Lin, Liu Dan, Vannessa Tran, and Zhang Hongtu. They are all American citizens; they have all been selected for quality and diversity in style, subject matter, geographical background, gender, and experience; and they are all very fine artists and highly articulate as well.

 

 

 

Friends at a Brushwood Gate

A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu

Saturday and Sunday, 18-19 April 2009

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50,
Princeton University

 

Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum

 

This symposium, organized by the Tang Center, will honor Yoshiaki Shimizu, Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, who will retire after more than twenty-five years of teaching at Princeton. Professor Shimizu's graduate students, past and present, will offer papers on their recent research.

 

 

Friends

Dunhuang Manuscripts and Painting

An International Symposium Honoring James and Lucy Lo

28 September 2007

1:30–6:00 pm

101 McCormick Hall, Princeton University

 

Organized by the Buddhist Studies Workshop and co-sponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art, with additional support from the Princeton University Library, the Program in East Asian Studies, the Department of Religion, Yale University Council on East Asian Studies, the American Trust for the British Library, and the Mercer Trust.

 

 

Tang Center

 

 

 

Art and Archaeology of the Erligang Civilization

An international symposium

26-27 April 2008

101 McCormick Hall, Princeton University

 

Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art

 

 

erlsymp

 

 

 

Meiji Eyes

A panel discussion on Japanese woodblock prints at the turn of the nineteenth century

27 September 2006, 4:30 p.m.

101 McCormick Hall, Princeton University

 

Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and co-sponsored by the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art.

 

meiji

 

 

 

The panel discussion will feature four presentations related to the exhibition Japanese Views of East and West: Imprinting the Other in Meiji Eyes, on view at the Princeton University Art Museum from September 23, 2006, to January 7, 2007. Each presentation will consider the different ways in which the sharp political and social transitions of the Meiji period (1868-1912) were expressed in the print medium, particularly approaches to depicting the foreign and the Japanese relationship to other cultures. The panel will also examine the legacy of the images of Meiji prints extending to the present day.

Nicole Fabricand-Person, Lafayette College
Another Other: Depiction of the Non-White Foreigner in Meiji Japan

Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Samuel Smiles in Japan: Moral Education from Self-Help to Thrift

Benjamin Elman, Princeton University
Japanese Woodblock Prints in Cyberspace: The MIT Affair as an Educational Lesson

David Howell, Princeton University
The Girl in the Horse-dung Hairdo

 

 

 

Re-presenting Emptiness

A Symposium on Zen and Art in Medieval Japan

14–15 April 2007

McCosh 10, Princeton University

 

Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum in association with the Japan Society, New York

 

 

Zen Burke Bukan

 

 

 

Bridges to Heaven

A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong

Saturday and Sunday, 1-2 April 2006

Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50,
Princeton University

 

Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art with support from The Blakemore Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum, the East Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Art and Archaeology

 

 

Bridges Burke

 

 

 

The Family Model
in Chinese Art and Culture

 

Saturday and Sunday, 6-7 November 2004

 

Organized by the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum with support from the Freeman Foundation

 

 

Family Model

 

 

 

Recarving China's Past

The Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines"

Saturday and Sunday, 30 April–1 May 2005

McCosh 50, Princeton University

 

Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum in memory of Frederick W. Mote. Co-sponsored in part by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the East Asian Studies Program and the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University; with the support of the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, the History Department and the East Asian Library at the University of California at Berkeley.

 

 

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Persistence/Transformation

Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing

Inaugural symposium celebrating the dedication of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art

Saturday, 15 February 2003

McCosh 10, Arthur M. Wood '34 Auditorium

1:30 -5:30 pm

 

Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art

 

 

Xu Bing

 

 

 

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