2011 Forum for Curators of Chinese Art
Hosting Institution: Seattle Asian Art Museum (U.S.A)
Date: 27 - 29 July 2011
Panel I - New Light on Permanent Collectionts
Moderator: Jenny SO (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
| Speaker | Organization | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Y. K. LAM | The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) | Happy Birthday to the Emperor: A Blue and White Vase Revisited (English) |
| 2 | Joseph CHANG | Asian Art Museum, Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture (U.S.A) | Calligraphy, Painting, and Seal: An Initial Survey of the Permanent Collections of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (English) |
| 3 | XU Xiaodong | The Palace Museum (China) | A Reconsideration of Several Jades in The Palace Museum Collection (English) |
| 4 | Hiromi KINOSHITA | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (U.S.A) | Material Study and Dating of Inlaid Mother-of-Pearl Lacquers (English) |
| 5 | LING Lizhong | Shanghai Museum (China) | New Light on Wang Yuanqi and Dong Qichang: Two Works from the Shanghai Museum (Chinese) |
| 6 | Ming WILSON | Victoria and Albert Museum (U.K) | Take a Closer Look at Coromandel Screens (English) |
| 7 | Elinor PEARLSTEIN | The Art Institute of Chicago (U.S.A) | Drafting New Biographies of Ancient Jades (English) |
Panel II - Presenting and Collecting Contemporary Art
Moderator: KAO Mayching (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
| Speaker | Organization | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melissa CHIU | Asia Society Museum (U.S.A) | How Strategies and Form have Evolved in the Past Decade and Shaped the Future |
| 2 | Shelagh VAINKER | The Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Oxford (U.K.) | Contemporary Chinese Art in the Ashmolean Museum |
| 3 | Anita CHUNG | The Cleveland Museum of Art (U.S.A) | Contemporary Challenges: The Cleveland Experience (English) |
| 4 | Robert MOWRY | Harvard Art Museums (U.S.A) | Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings at the Harvard Art Museums: Exhibitions and Collections (English) |
Panel III - Collaborations among Museums -- Sharing Resources
Moderator: Colin MACKENZIE (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, U.S.A)
| Speaker | Organization | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHI Jo-Hsin | National Palace Museum (Taiwan) | The Archives of Imperial Display in The Palace Museum and Some Objects in the National Palace Museum (Chinese) |
| 2 | CHAN Lai Pik | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) | Chinese Jades in the Wstern Context: Two Case Studies (Chinese) |
| 3 | LEI Yong | The Palace Museum (China) | Was Malachite the Most Popular Green Pigment? (English) |
| 4 | Lesley LAU | Public Museum of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) | A Survey of Chinese Export Paintings at The British Museum (English) |
| 5 | ZHU Saihong | The Palace Museum (China) | A Preliminary Investigation of Rare Books from the Qing Imperial Collection in Taipei (Chinese) |
| 6 | Valentina MARABINI | The British Museum (U.K) | Studying Conservation of Chinese Heritage Paintings: Placement at the Shanghai Museum (English) |
Panel IV - Exhibitions in Planning
Moderator: Jan STUART (The British Museum, U.K)
| Speaker | Organization | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nancy BERLINER | Peabody Essex Museum (U.S.A) | Research on Eight Broken (Bapo) Painting Motif |
| 2 | Keith WILSON | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution (U.S.A) | Lessons from the Xiangtangshan Project (English) |
| 3 | James LIN | The Fitzwilliam Museum (U.K) | Imperial Tombs of Han China -- Xuzhou and Guangzhou |
| 4 | Josh YIU | Seattle Art Museum (U.S.A) | Celebrating Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at SAM - An Exhibition Without Labels (English) |
| 5 | SHEN Chen | Royal Ontario Museum (Canada) | Exhibiting Archaeology: Ancient Artwork in Context (English) |
** Arranged in keynote presentation order