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The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery invite you to participate in a free online colloquium.
Wednesday, May 11, 8 - 9:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Closed captioned. Live voice translation in Japanese.
Free and open to the public; registration required. To register, click here.
Taking the Freer Gallery's exhibition The Peacock Room Comes to America as a jumping-off point, this interactive colloquium will explore ways in which James McNeill Whistler's famed interior became a space filled with complex narratives of multidirectional aesthetic interchange. Exhibition curator Lee Glazer will provide an overview of the installation and discuss how Charles Lang Freer, the Detroit industrialist and collector who purchased the room in 1904, used it as an aesthetic laboratory to test his cosmopolitan philosophy of collecting and display. Then panelists will participate in a "lightning round" of presentations focusing on the global circulation of artistic objects and international patterns of patronage and critical discourse. The program will also include a Q&A session and open discussion between audience and presenters.
Presenters
Lee Glazer, associate curator of American art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Arabella Teniswood-Harvey, University of Tasmania, Australia
"Whistler in Australia: Cross-Cultural Connections"
Patricia de Montfort, University of Glasgow, Scotland
"Bought by an American: The Peacock Room Heads West"
Ayako Ono, Shinshu University, Japan
"Aesthetic Dialogues of East and West: Whistler's Points of Contact"
Sponsors
This event is organized by the Freer and Sackler Galleries, with a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art, which is dedicated to fostering the exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of American art for national and international audiences.
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Click here for information on registration and participation.
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