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.

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