Now and Then: Buddhist Art at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

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Tyche, Gandhara, 3rd century. Schist. H: 36". BAMPFA. On long-term loan from a private collection. Photo courtesy of Christie's.

Now and Then: Buddhist Art at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Instructor: 
Julia White
When: 
August 14, 2020
Time: 
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time
Place: 
Zoom Webinar
Fee: 
$15 per person Society members; $20 per person non-members

Registration for this event is now closed.

Advance registration must be received by the SAA no later than August 7, 2020. A Zoom confirmation email with information on how to join the webinar will be sent to all registered attendees the week of August 10. Even though it is not required by Zoom, we recommend that you download and install Zoom on your computer or mobile device in advance, and set yourself up with a free account. Attendees will have a chance to participate in the Q&A with a text chat function.

Two exhibitions featuring Buddhist art, one current, Divine Women: Divine Wisdom, and one planned for next year, Beyond Boundaries: Gandharan Buddhist Art, will be the focus of this curator's talk by Julia White. Divine Women focuses on images of women in the context of Buddhist and Hindu art is the current exhibition, which has been extended until next year. Beyond Boundaries will feature works from the Gandharan region dating to the 3rd to 9th centuries, drawn from public (including the Asian Art Museum) and private collections. This exhibition is co-curated by Ms. White and Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi and is slated to open in April of 2021.

Julia White is Senior Curator for Asian Art at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, where she has organized notable exhibitions of Chinese and Japanese painting, and Buddhist art of Tibet as well as on numerous other topics. Ms. White is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where she studied with the late Professor Emeritus James Cahill. She has lived and traveled widely in China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.

 

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