Curator Conversations
Throughout the year during free, public presentations, Norton curators provide insight and context to exhibitions they have organized and art and artists they have studied and admire.
VIRTUAL Curator Conversation: Divine Beings
Friday, November 6 / 7PM-8PM
ONLINE: Divine Beings
Friday, November 6, 7pm
Laurie Barnes, Elizabeth B. McGraw Curator of Chinese Art, introduces highlights from the special exhibition Divine Beings and their relationships to works from India to Japan. Featured are a sculpture and paintings created to convey spiritual concepts related to Hindu, Taoist, and Buddhist philosophy. Learn about the cultural exchanges and transmission of ideas connected with these works of art and their relationship to more than two dozen Chinese artworks on view from the Norton’s collection.
Free
Tosa Yukihiro 土佐行広 (Japan, Muromachi Period, 1338-1573), Parinirvana, circa 1451 Eastern India or Bangladesh, Gupta Period, Vishnu Riding Garuda, 320-500 CE
Support for Curator Conversations was provided by the Gayle and Paul Gross Education Endowment Fund.