FREER+SACKLER: A Deeper Look at Surface Beauty

A Deeper Look at Sur­face Beauty

• An inter­ac­tive online colloquium
• May 12, 2010, 8:30 — 10 pm
• East­ern Day­light Time
• www.smithsonianconference.org/surfacebeauty

Tak­ing the Freer Gallery exhi­bi­tion Sur­face Beauty: Amer­i­can Art and Freer’s Aes­thetic Vision as a jump­ing off point, this col­lo­quium explores the com­pli­cated nar­ra­tives of cul­tural trans­mis­sion and trans­la­tion that lie beneath the sur­face har­monies of col­lec­tor Charles Lang Freer’s aes­thetic vision.

Fol­low­ing an exhi­bi­tion overview, cura­tor Lee Glazer will dis­cuss how the objects in the exhi­bi­tion relate to The Story of the Beau­ti­ful, a web resource being devel­oped by the Freer and Wayne State Uni­ver­sity that will sit­u­ate Freer and his cir­cle within a cos­mopoli­tan dia­logue with Euro­pean and Asian inter­pre­tive communities.

Other pre­sen­ters include:

• Linda Mer­rill: Cap­tur­ing Aes­theti­cism through Photography
• Susan Key:  Sym­pa­thetic Vibra­tions:  Musi­cal Res­o­nances of Sur­face Beauty
• Eun­y­oung Cho: Cross­ing Bound­aries for the Beau­ti­ful: Asia and Amer­ica at the Turn of the Century

Live trans­la­tions in Korean and Japan­ese will be avail­able through­out the webinar.

This event is being orga­nized by the Smith­son­ian’s Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sack­ler Gallery with a gen­er­ous grant from the Terra Foun­da­tion for Amer­i­can Art and is free and open to the pub­lic. For reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion please go to www.smithsonianconference.org/surfacebeauty.