Chinese Painting: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

Chinese Painting: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Friday & Saturday, November 2–3, 2007

Friday, November 2
5pm. Preview of the Exhibition
6-7pm. Chu-tsing Li: Scholar, Colleague, and Friend
Marilyn J. Stokstad, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Keynote Lecture
A Tradition Redefined: Artistic Choice and Painterly Vision, 1950–2000
Claudia Brown, Professor of Art History, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe

Saturday, November 3
9:30am. Welcome
Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard University Art Museums
9:40am. Chu-tsing Li: Scholar, Classmate, and Friend
John M. Rosenfield, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art Emeritus, Harvard University; Curator of Asian Art Emeritus, Harvard University Art Museums
10am. The Lessons of China’s Twentieth-Century History
William C. Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
10:45am. Chinese Painting, 1900–1950: A Cultural Conundrum
Arnold Chang, Artist and Independent Scholar, New York
11:30am. Panel Discussion
Arnold Chang, William C. Kirby, and exhibition curators Claudia Brown, Robert D. Mowry, and Janet Baker, Curator of Asian Art, Phoenix Art Museum
1:30pm. Tradition Transformed: Chinese Painting in Taiwan, 1950–2000
Chüan-ying Grace Yen, Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei
2:15pm. Remaking Tradition for the Revolution: Chinese Painting after 1949
Julia F. Andrews, Professor of Art History, Ohio State University, Columbus
3:30pm. Ink as Experiment in Chinese Contemporary Art
Melissa Chiu, Director, Asia Society Museum, New York
4:15pm. Perspective of the Scholar-Collector
Chu-tsing Li, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Kansas, Lawrence
4:30pm. Panel Discussion
Julia F. Andrews, Janet Baker, Claudia Brown, Arnold Chang, Melissa Chiu, William C. Kirby, Robert D. Mowry, Chüan-ying, Grace Yen
485 Broadway, Cambridge
Free and open to the public
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, Arthur M. Sackler Museum