Related Events
Other campus events related to the theme of this year's program:
Artscape/Cityscape
In association with "Mahjong," the major exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the History of Art Department is organizing a symposium on new art and urban life in a China being rapidly transformed. Event details.
Socially Engaged Art
Enjoy a panel discussion on Socially Engaged Art, moderated by James Schamus, at 4:00 p.m. on March 17, 2009 in the Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall.
Film Screenings
The residence halls are hosting screenings of several of Ang Lee's films in February.
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, September 10 - December 2008
The largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Chinese contemporary art ever shown in the U.S. takes over most of the museum in fall 2008. Mahjong features about 120 works by 92 artists that date from the 1970s to the present, all drawn from the collection of the former Swiss ambassador to China Uli Sigg. Comprising exceptional paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, video works, and installations, the exhibition begins with important Social Realist works, then illustrates the avant-garde movements of the 1980s and early 1990s, and includes work by a generation of increasingly successful artists who have emerged following China's social and economic reforms of the past decade.
