Curator Conversations
Norton curators provide insight and context to exhibitions they have organized and art and artists they have studied and admire.
Curator Conversation / Art of the Word: Calligraphy and Chinese Artists
Friday, March 7 / 6PM-7PM
Join Florida International University Curator of Chinese Art, Dr. Lidi Yi, and the Norton's Elizabeth B. McGraw Senior Curator of Chinese Art, Laurie Barnes, for a discussion of two works on view by Wu Chang-shuo (1844 – 1927) and Lee Chun-yi (born. 1965) that are based on ancient Chinese inscriptions carved in stone. Wu repeats characters originally carved into a famous ancient granite boulder, part of a group of 10 stones which are the oldest known surviving Chinese stone inscriptions and national treasures. Lee dab-prints the text of the Heart Sutra, which was translated into Chinese by the monk Xuanzang in 649 after his pilgrimage to India from 629 to 645 to secure Buddhist scriptures.
Dr. Joy Lidu Yi is an art historian and curator of Asian art specializing in visual art and material culture. Trained at the University of Toronto, Dr. Yi’s research interests are three-fold: Buddhist art, architecture, and archaeology in Asia; Chinese paintings; and contemporary art in China. She is the author of Yungang: Art, History, Archaeology and Liturgy; He Wore Flowers in His Hair: Understanding a Late Ming through His Mid-Ming Subject; Cross-cultural Buddhist Monastery Ruins on the Silk Road and Beyond; On the Sūtra of the Divine Spells of Great Auspiciousness. Dr. Yi was the curator of Xu Bing: Writing Between Heaven and Earth; Wang Qingsong: ADinfinitum; Koizumi Kishio—Remembering Tokyo at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum and other exhibitions.
Space is limited; online registration required (available January 25 for members and February 1 for non-members).
Cost: Museum Admission/Members FREE
Korman Room
Support for this program was provided by the Gayle and Paul Gross Education Endowment Fund.