Art Salon: The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art

The China Institute in America presents Nixi Cura.

Nixi Cura is Director of Christie’s Education in London. Her current research interests include art of the Qing dynasty, especially during the Qianlong reign (1736–1795), collecting and antiquarian practices during the Republican and Manchukuo periods, and contemporary Chinese visual culture. She has published a cultural biography of the Admonitions scroll during the Qianlong reign and is currently working on an edited volume for the University of California Press entitled Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists, and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture. Cura serves as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and is a co-founder of the Arts of China Consortium.

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Art Salon: The Culture of Contemporary Chinese Art
Intimate discussions with artists, curators, critics and art historians about contemporary Chinese art from the perspective of social and political contexts, the relationship between contemporary Chinese and Western culture, and the bridge between traditional and contemporary Chinese art. Past Art Salons are available on DVD in both English and Mandarin.