Cultural News, 2010 October Issue
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2625 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, (510) 642-0808, http://bampfa.Berkeley.edu
Public Programs of Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture at BAM/PFA are following:
Conversation: Willa and George Tanabe on Japanese Religious Art
Sunday, October 3, 3 p.m., Museum Theater
Two noted scholars will examine significant pieces of Japanese Buddhist art featured in the exhibition through the lens of both religious studies and art history.
George Tanabe is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious at the University of Hawai’i. He has written widely on Japanese religion, including co-authoring, with Ian Reader, Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan. He also edits several important series on Japanese tradition and Buddhism.
Willa Tanabe, former Dean of the School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai’i. She has published extensively on images connected to the Lotus Sutra and has also curated exhibition of woodblock prints, Japanese embroidery, and the scared art of Mt. Koya. The Tanabes are currently working on a guidebook to all the Japanese Buddhist temples in Hawai’i.
Conversation: Willard Clark and Amy Poster
Sunday, October 31, 3 p.m., Gallery C
Willard G. Clark, founder of the Clark Center, will converse with Amy Poster, Curator Emerita of the Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, about his lifelong collecting of Japanese art.
Using visual illustrations, Clark will discuss his personal passion for Japanese art and culture and how he became involved in collecting, and share personal reflections about individual objects.
Amy Poster, currently an independent curator based in New York, was affiliated with the Asian Art department at the Brooklyn Museum from 1969 to 2006. Among her many major publications are Journey Through Asia: Masterpieces of Asian Art in the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo; and Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections.
Following their conversation, Clark and Poster will together offer an informal walk though of the exhibition.
Guided tours are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 pm.