CAMLab Seminar I Asia Now: A New Focus on Contemporary Art
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Please join us for a lecture, Asia Now: A New Focus on Contemporary Art, by Dr. Jay Xu, Director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Tuesday, March 3rd, 4pm
Room 422
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Ever since its doors opened in 1966, the Asian Art Museum has dedicated itself to inspiring new ways of thinking. Through its world-class collection, exhibitions, and programs, the AAM connects diverse communities to various aspects of Asian art and culture. To further its commitment to make Asian art and culture an essential part of American life in the 21st century, the AAM has launched a major contemporary art initiative. The overarching goal is to spark the audience’s curiosity, foster connection of art to life, and to contributes to a paradigm shift and canon building in the field of contemporary Asian art. The newly renovated and expanded museum facilities and art presentation, which are to open to public in May 2020, include the first manifestation of the contemporary art initiative. This lecture will discuss the thought process, strategy, resources, and programs of the AAM’s initiative, and encourage critical feedback for its effort.
In addition, Dr. Xu will also be delivering the lecture, Common Technology, Opposite Approach: Comparison of Bronze Casting Technology at Zhongyuan and Sanxingdui on Sunday, March 1st, 3pm, in the Tozzer Anthropology Building, Room 203, 21 Divinity Avenue
Dr. Jay Xu has served as director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco since 2008, and he is the first Chinese American director at a major American art museum. Xu has had nearly forty years of international museum experience as a research scholar, curator, and museum director. He previously served as assistant to the museum director at the Shanghai Museum; research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; curator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum. He also served as head of the Asian art department and chairman of the department of Asian and Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab (CAMLab), affiliated with Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is founded and directed by Harvard University Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art Eugene Wang. An international platform and exhibition space, CAMLab is dedicated to bringing together innovative academic research and multi-media design thinking, unveiling the imaginative space of Chinese visual traditions, and creating cultural experiences that impress the spiritual dimension. Central to CAMLab’s mission is the artistic presentation of cutting-edge research, as well as the catalyzing of intellectual inquiries through artistic practices. CAMLab is an incubator focusing on the integration of scholarship and art. Learn more about CAMLab.
