Asian Art Council Lectures

Lecture: “Contemporary Japanese Ceramics”
February 25, Thursday
10:30 a.m., Museum Boardroom
Speaker: Willard G. Clark, Founding Director, Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art (Hanford, California)

This lecture will highlight works from one of the largest collections of contemporary Japanese ceramic art in the West.

Lecture: “Southern Asian Temple Arts”
March 25, Thursday
10:30 a.m., Museum Boardroom
Speaker: Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, PhD, Curator of Asian Art, The San Diego Museum of Art

In conjunction with the opening of the new gallery displaying sculptures and manuscripts from Indian and Southeast Asian temples, Dr. Quintanilla will contextualize and explain the function of sculpture in ancient South Asian temple settings.

Lecture: “Ragamala in Image and Music”
April 29, Thursday
10:30 a.m., Museum Boardroom
Speaker: Naman Ahuja, Associate Professor of Ancient Indian Art and Architecture, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Dr. Ahuja will present an introduction to rare ragas and their painted images, with special reference to works in the Museum’s Binney Collection to be exhibited in 2012.

Lecture: “Wonders of Japanese Metalwork”
May 27, Thursday
10:30 a.m., Museum Boardroom
Speaker: Kazuo Kuwabara, collector and independent scholar