Events
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Left: Gu Jun (image from www.xinhuanet.com); Right: Jimmy Carter and Deng Xiaoping sign agreement (image from Georgetown University)
A Chinese View of the Restoration of China-US Ties
April 25, 2019 - 4:00pmLos Angeles, CaliforniaPlease join the US-China Institute for the screening of Between China and the U.S., a documentary series on China-U.S. relations. After the screening, director and filmmaker Gu Jun will discuss the film with the audience.
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Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most influential living artists and human rights activists, known for smashing conventions—and pottery—with iconic works like Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995) that upend the cultural traditions and materials of his native China. While his work includes sculpture, installation, photography, film, performance, and architecture, ceramics occupies a singular place in his practice.
The Norton Museum of Art presents an exhibition featuring works on a late Ming dynasty Lantern Festival in Nanjing.
The 2019 China-California Business Forum will be attended by Chinese business delegates from nine provinces and municipalities.
Drawn from the museum’s outstanding collection of later-period Chinese jade objects, this exhibition will focus on carved jade representations of mountain landscapes and forms from nature. For both sculptor and viewer, landscape imagery illustrates an understanding of the inseparability of oneself from the surrounding world, where the journey through the mountains is symbolic to the path to an immortal realm.
Many of these garments exemplify a fashion trend of the 1800s: cuffs and hems embellished with embroidered bands, which in turn were often edged with strips of brocaded ribbon. (July 14, 2018 - June 30, 2019)
Coming this spring to the Bowers Museum in its west coast premiere: Guo Pei: Couture Beyond.
The Museum of Chinese in America presents an exhibition on how music can unite Chinese communities.
The Royal Ontario Museum presents an exhibition showcasing the connection between Chinese lunar new year and ancestral paintings.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents an exhibition on Chinese figure paintings.
The Chinese American Musuem in Los Angeles presents an exhibition reimagining the iconic Chinese landscape paintings.