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About curators & lecturers, Spring 2010 Treasures Rediscovered | Expressions of the Buddhist Faith | Highlights from the Collection Treasures Rediscovered Exhibition curator Dorothy Wong Dorothy C. Wong is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Art Department of the University of Virginia. She received her B.A. at the International Christian University (Tokyo), her M.Phil. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Specializing in Buddhist art of medieval China, her research addresses topics of art in relation to religion and society, and of the relationship between religious texts/doctrine and visual representations. She was an editor for the Asian art magazine Orientations in the 1980s and, before coming to the University of Virginia in 1997, had taught in Florida for two years. As visiting professor, she had also taught in Budapest and Hong Kong. Among her academic honors was a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2002–03). She has published Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form (2004), Hōryūji Reconsidered (editor and contributing author, 2008), and more than two dozen academic articles. A fellow at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, her current digital project is entitled: "Silk Road: The Path of Transmission of Avalokiteśvara." In conjunction with the Treasures Rediscovered exhibition, she is organizing an international, interdisciplinary conference, Cultural Crossings: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period, March 11-13, 2010. About the exhibition > Expressions of the Buddhist Faith Exhibition curator Dorothy Wong Dorothy C. Wong is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Art Department of the University of Virginia. She received her B.A. at the International Christian University (Tokyo), her M.Phil. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Specializing in Buddhist art of medieval China, her research addresses topics of art in relation to religion and society, and of the relationship between religious texts/doctrine and visual representations. She was an editor for the Asian art magazine Orientations in the 1980s and, before coming to the University of Virginia in 1997, had taught in Florida for two years. As visiting professor, she had also taught in Budapest and Hong Kong. Among her academic honors was a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2002–03). She has published Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form (2004), Hōryūji Reconsidered (editor and contributing author, 2008), and more than two dozen academic articles. A fellow at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, her current digital project is entitled: "Silk Road: The Path of Transmission of Avalokiteśvara." In conjunction with the Treasures Rediscovered exhibition, she is organizing an international, interdisciplinary conference, Cultural Crossings: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period, March 11-13, 2010. About the exhibition > Highlights from the Collection About the exhibition > Ellen Bayard Weedon Lectures in the Arts of Asia Lecturers Lewis Lancaster Lewis Lancaster is Emeritus Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California at Berkeley. His research has focused on the history of the Chinese Buddhist canon. He is also the founder and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. Current activities involve editorship of the Cultural Atlas of Chinese Religions, in coordination with the GIS Center of Academia Sinica in Taiwan; creation of visualizations for data retrieval from the digital Chinese Buddhist canons, in a joint effort with the School of Media Arts at City University of Hong Kong; and mapping of Buddhist archaeological sites and inscriptions of South India with the Archaeological Survey of India in Chennai. About the lecture > Lecturer Tim Griffin
Tim Griffin has been editor of Artforum International since 2003. During that time he has written for the publication on numerous artists, including Chantal Akerman, Paul Chan, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mary Heilmann, Philippe Parreno, Seth Price, Allen Ruppersberg, Haim Steinbach, Catherine Sullivan, and Kelley Walker, among others; and he has devoted special issues of the magazine to art and politics, globalization, Minimalism, the legacy of Land art, the rebuilding of New Orleans, and notions of the Commons, as well as to such figures as choreographer Michael Clark, philosopher Jacques Rancière, public intellectual Susan Sontag, and architect-designer Buckminster Fuller. Griffin's writing has also appeared in venues ranging from October to Vogue, and his essay on John Baldessari, "What do you do?," appears in the catalogue for the artist's retrospective that opened this autumn at Tate Modern in London. About the lecture > Clarke Hudson About the tour >
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Tyler Jo Smith Tyler Jo Smith is Assistant Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in the McIntire Department of Art at U.Va. A specialist in the visual and material cultures of the ancient Greco-Roman world, her book entitled Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art is about to be published by Oxford University Press. Her particular areas of research and interest include Greek pottery, ancient religion and performance, and the history of collecting. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Turkey, Sicily, and England, and has been a faculty lecturer for Cavalier Travels programs in Greece and Turkey. About the tour > Judith Ryan Judith Ryan, senior curator of Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, will give a gallery talk on four paintings from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection currently installed in the Museum. Three of the works are monumental bark paintings from Yirrkala in northeast Arnhem Land commissioned by John Kluge in 1996. The fourth is a large canvas painted by the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye of Utopia in the Northern Territory. Ryan has curated about forty exhibitions of Indigenous art and has published widely in the field. Her publications include Mythscapes: Aboriginal Art of the Desert; Spirit in Land: Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land; and Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley. In 2007, Ryan guest curated Power & Beauty: Indigenous art now for Heide Museum of Modern Art. She is currently working on a blockbuster exhibition, Origins: Old Masters of the Western Desert, to open in September 2011. About the Lunchtime Talk > About the related lecture > |
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