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...exhibit, on display until Sept. 7, features 72 works of East Asian Buddhist art with strikingly uniform subject matter. “We aimed to present a comprehensive overview of Buddhist art from China, Korea and Japan over a period of one thousand years,” said the exhibit’s curator, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Robert D. Mowry...
...vast majority of the objects in the exhibit come from Harvard University Art Museums permanent collection, among them several recent acquisitions. Several other works are on loan from private collections...
...exhibit displays a variety of fascinating objects that provide insight into Buddhist beliefs, practices and developments. Chinese, Korean and Japanese hanging scrolls illustrate and record Buddhist “sutras,” or sacred texts. Ceremonial objects such as Chinese censers and Tibetan bell handles bring to mind images of traditional Buddhist ceremonies. Wooden and brass statues, as well as several scroll paintings, depict frightening monsters who serve as protector deities that ward off demons...
...This exhibit is less about curating an original collection and more about bringing resources together,” Mergel says, gesturing towards a graphite panel and an acrylic painting waiting to be hung. “The graphites are Joan Mullen’s, an arts tutor in Mather, but that brown-striped acrylic canvas belongs to Jen Johnston, an arts tutor in Eliot. And that’s the point—to show side-by-side who’s available to assist the artists in the community...
Design school curator Kim Shkapich explains that the sixteen projects in the exhibit “were selected for their structural innovations, and as examples of the incremental and methodological approach of the architect to refine/define new models for construction and design practice...