Center for the Art of East Asia
Exhibiting East Asian Art in the West
Exhibitions of East Asian art have been a major aspect of the creation and dissemination of historical knowledge of East Asia in the West since the early twentieth century. Exhibitions offer the first-hand and authentic experience of East Asian art and have made important contributions to scholarship and the understanding artistic traditions and the formation of the field of study of East Asian art history as an academic discipline.
The Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago will host a virtual symposium, “Exhibiting East Asian Art in the West,” to initiate a critical reassessment of the manner in which East Asian art has been exhibited, and to collectively envision the future directions in this field. The symposium will include studies of the display of East Asian artworks—premodern, modern, and contemporary—in spatial, architectural, and artistic contexts, and the ways in which these may have imbued them with cultural and other forms meaning and value.
Day 1 / Friday, June 4, 9:00 AM—4:00 PM U.S. Central Time
Panel I East Asian Art Exhibitions in History
Panel II Exhibiting Chinese Paintings
Panel III Exhibitions In Controversy
Day 2 / Saturday, June 5, 9:00 AM—4:30 PM U.S. Central Time
Panel IV Exhibiting East Asian Art in a Modern Context
Panel V Curatorial Issues
Panel VI Issues with Curation and Collection
Day 3 / Sunday, June 6, 9:00 AM—12:30 PM U.S. Central Time
Panel VII Beijing Zhihua Temple In the United States
Roundtable Discussion moderated by Professor Wu Hung
For more detailed schedule information, visit the Exhibiting East Asian Art in the West Symposium Website
Note: All sessions will be conducted in English without live closed captions. Selected sessions will be recorded with the presenters' permission. The symposium registrants will receive an announcement when the recordings with captions are available online. To sign up for the Center for the Art of East Asia's e-newsletter, click here.