Lecture: The Silk Road and China’s Tang Dynasty
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 2PM - 3PM
Newly installed in Galleries 130 and 131A, polychromatic earthenware figures of camels, riders, horses, and musicians tell a story of how artisans in the Tang dynasty (618-907) captured the dynamism brought on by trade, diplomacy, and pilgrimage of the Silk Road.
Join Seung Hee Oh, assistant curator of Chinese Art, for a discussion about the art and culture of the Tang dynasty, the Silk Road, and China’s golden age of cosmopolitanism.
About the Speaker
Seung Hee Oh is assistant curator of Chinese art in the Arts of Asia department at the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to joining the Art Institute in 2023, she worked with East Asian art collections at the Harvard Art Museums, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, and Seoul National University Museum. She has also contributed as an author, editor, and translator to publications from the U.K., Japan, and Korea. Seung Hee holds a Ph.D from Harvard University, where she specialized in Chinese painting and later Buddhist art.
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Closed captioning will be available for this program. For questions related to accessibility accommodations, please email access@artic.edu.
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