100 Years of Korean Art Collecting and Display at the Brooklyn Museum

 

100 Years of Korean Art Collecting and Display at the Brooklyn Museum

AHL Foundation Public Lecture Series 2015 in Collaboration with Korean Cultural Service NY

Wednesday, November 4, 2015
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Korean Cultural Service, 460 Park Avenue (57th Street), 6th Floor
Free admission; refreshments provided

The Brooklyn Museum houses one of the finest collections of traditional Korean art in the United States. This illustrated lecture by the Museum’s Curator of Asian Art will examine the Museum’s long history of collecting and displaying Korean art, with an emphasis on the masterpieces in the collection and some of their interesting back-stories. In recent years, the Museum has embarked on scholarly and scientific examinations of the collection that have revealed previously unknown objects and new information about old favorites. The Museum’s gallery of Korean art is currently closed for renovations, but preliminary drawings for the new gallery will offer a glimpse of a bright future for Korean art in Brooklyn.

Dr. Joan Cummins, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum
Dr. Joan Cummins joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2007. From 1998 to 2005, she was Assistant Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has a B.A. from Brown University and a M.A., M. Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is the author of Indian Painting: From Cave Temples to the Colonial Period (Boston, 2006). Dr. Cummins was curator of Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior (2011).