Silk and Bamboo (sizhu): Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with Chinese Music (丝竹：赏月庆中秋)
Saturday, September 29, 3:00–5:00 PM (星期六，9月29日，3至5点)
Speaker: Mr. Chen Tao, renowned Chinese musician
Free for members of China Institute and 7s Art Group Inc. (免费：华美协进社与七堂的会员) Become a Member Now!
$15 for non-member ($15 非会员)
Location: 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10006
Traditions and legends associated with moon worship go back for millennia in Chinese culture and are central to the Mid-Autumn Festival: an annual harvest festival that gained popularity during the Tang dynasty and remains one of the most important dates on the Chinese calendar today. China Institute will celebrate this year’s Festival with an afternoon of sizhu music which is being introduced and performed by the renowned Chinese musician Chen Tao. Hear examples of both Chinese and Western “moon music” while sampling traditional Chinese mooncakes! Attendees can also lose themselves in the spectacular vistas depicted in the China Institute Gallery exhibition Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer's Lens.
由著名中国笛箫演奏家陈涛先生介绍中国的丝竹乐，以及中外著名的月亮名曲。以乐声相伴，品尝月饼，从“山艺术：中国摄影家的镜像”一展中， 感受清风明月。华美协进社中国美术馆与七堂联合举办。薄备酒水点心。七堂提供茶道。
International Symposium: Photography and China
Wang Wusheng, Huangshan A104, 1984. Inkjet print, 24 x 40 3/8 inches
Saturday, September 22, 9:15 AM – 5:45 PM
FULL-DAY: Members $35 / Non-members $45 / Students $15 /Free to FOTG members
HALF-DAY: Members $20 / Non-members $25 / Students $8 / Free to FOTG members
Ticket includes admission to Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer’s Lens
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Location: 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10006
Since photography was introduced to China about two hundred years ago, it has become the most popular art medium in Chinese art and life. Trends in the country’s photography have been shaped by both long-standing Chinese traditions and western influences.
This full-day symposium will feature leading scholars, industry experts, photography collectors, and artists from both the U.S. and China, with topics ranging from the influence of Chinese traditional aesthetics on nineteenth century Chinese photography to the cutting-edge innovations developed by the country’s contemporary masters of the medium.
Curator’s Lecture: Part Two
New Shanshui Photography—Chinese Landscape Photography with a New Dimension
Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 – 8:30PM (RESCHEDULED DUE TO WINTER STORM)
Speaker's Name: Jiang Rong, guest curator
Event Fee: $10 Members; $15 Non-Members
Location: 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10006
Art of the Mountain’s second curator’s lecture will be conducted by renowned photography critic Jiang Rong (江融), guest curator of the exhibition, member of the United Nations Exhibitions Committee, and columnist in Photo World magazine. Jiang’s lecture will focus on the elements of the exhibition’s third section: New Landscape Photography.
Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Zhu Yunming (1460-1526) and Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), Calligraphy and Painting of the Orchid Pavilion (Detail, Collection of the Lioaning Provincial Museum. Exhibited at China Institute Gallery 9.25-12.14.2008
Saturday, March 10, 2:00–5:00PM
Event Fee: Free for Members; $10 Non-Members
Location: 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10006
Please join China Institute Gallery for an afternoon of poetry, music and art as we usher in our newest exhibition Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer’s Lens. Orchid Pavilion Gatherings are an annual event at China Institute celebrating and encouraging artistic inspiration in the spirit of celebrated calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi’s (307 – 365) famous gathering with his poet friends on Mount Kuaiji. Chinese poets will be reciting their poems based on the themes from China Institute Gallery’s most recent exhibition.
Willow Weilan Hai, Gallery Director and Chief Curator of Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer’s Lens will offer bilingual tours of the exhibition.
Curator’s Lecture: Part One
Painting, Photography, Geography: Chinese Traditions of Silk and Paper Mountains
Zhang Anlu, Minyak Gangkar in the Last Light of the Sun, 2003, digital color printing on FANTAC photographic paper, 14 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.
Wang Wusheng, Huangshan A124: Disciples of Buddha and Fairy Maiden Peak, 2004, giclee on Advanced Glossy Paper 270, 40 x 32 in.
Thursday, February 8, 6:30 – 8:30PM
Speaker's Name: Jerome Silbergeld, guest curator
Event Fee: $10 Members; $15 Non-Members
Location: 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10006
In conjunction with China Institute Gallery’s upcoming exhibition opening, join guest curator Jerome Silbergeld, P. Y and Kinmay W. Tang professor Chinese art history, Emeritus, for a discussion on traditional Chinese landscape aesthetics and geography and how both are incorporated into Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer’s Lens.
