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2.3
spring
2005
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VOLUME 2 NUMBER 3 SPRING 2005 PAGE 2
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| Cantor Arts Center |
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Buddhist monks open Sri
Lankan art exhibition |
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At the Cantor through June |
| A major exhibition of Sri
Lankan art opened March 2 at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts
with a blessing ceremony conducted by Buddhist monks of Sri Lanka,
Burma, and Thailand. Entitled "Guardian of the Flame: The
Art of Sri Lanka," the installation displays Buddhist images,
reliquaries, and palm-leaf manuscripts from the sixth through
the nineteenth centuries. |
| The exhibition, which will
run through June 12, was organized by the Phoenix Museum of Art
and provides a full catalogue authored by Cantor Asian art curator
John Listopad. |
| For more on this event, see
the March 9 Stanford Report. |
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Japanese
death portraits |
Contemporary
Chinese artists |
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Coming in April |
Through April |
| Japanese woodblock
prints commemorating the death of popular actors will be on display
at the Cantor Arts Center from April 13 through July 24 of this
year. |
Experimental
works by China's avant-garde artists are the focus of an exhibition
currently on display at the Cantor Arts Center. The pieces can
be seen through May 1. |
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Entitled "Sini-e: The
Performance of Death in Japanese Kabuki Prints," the exhibition
presents 27 works from the collection of Albert Dien (Asian Languages,
emeritus). |
"On the Edge: Contemporary
Chinese Artists Encounter the West" features works in the
varied media of painting, photography, installation, and video. |
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| The installation is curated
by Melinda Takeuchi (Art) and Christine Guth (Art) with the students
of their art history seminar. The exhibition is supported by the
Cantor's Miller Fund for Academic Initiatives. |
The exhibition, which opened
January 26, is accompanied by a catalogue by guest curator Britta
Erickson. For more on this story, see the February 23 Stanford Report. |
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| "Religious Pluralism
in Chinese History" will be the topic of a lecture series
this spring sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies. |
| The series will present talks
by Mario Poceski (Florida), on pluralism and identity (April
21); Richard Madsen (UCSD), on religion and the state in Taiwan
and the PRC (April 29); Stephen Bokenkamp (Indiana), on rebirth
in Daoism (May 12); and Stephen Teiser (Princeton), on ethnicity
in Buddhism (May 19). |
| For further information,
see the colloquium web page. |
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