Hello everyone!
Just a quick reminder that I'll be leading a group to Boston's very own
and very free Museum of Fine Arts this Saturday at noon. There are a
number of exhibits that end soon, so take advantage of the opportunity
to see them before they leave! We will depart from the steps of Dudley
House. Send me a quick email if you are interested in coming so I can
have an idea of how big our group will be.
Hope to see you there,
Charlie
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Renovating a "House of Pleasure": Japanese Screen Conservation
Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk
Arthur M. Sackler Museum @ 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of Japanese art, Harvard Art
Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Tanya Tomoko Uyeda, assistant conservator for Japanese paintings,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
This talk will focus on a 17th-century Japanese screen that was
recently remounted in the Asian conservation studio at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. The speakers will explain the materials and
techniques used to produce the screen as well as the technical,
aesthetic, and ethical issues of remounting.
This popular series pairs presenters to consider objects from more
than one point of view. The informal talks, by Harvard Art Museum
curators, conservators, and educators, and Harvard University faculty
members, are designed to stimulate thinking about works of art and
encourage participants to explore their own ways of seeing.
Free with the price of admission.
Limited to 30 participants. Please arrive early.
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion.
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Susannah Hutchison
Education Department
617-496-8576 fax 617-495-9985
Harvard Art Museum
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.harvardartmuseum.org
