Thursday, April 8, 2010

Local Interest: Lecture by Prof. Gao Minglu

Prof. Gao Minglu, a specialist in contemporary Chinese art, will speak at LSU on Wednesday, April 14 at 5pm in 103 Design. Prof. Gao is Head of Fine Arts at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in China and Research Professor at the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He was the curator of the first national exhibition of contemporary art in China, the China/Avant-Garde exhibition at the National Art Gallery in Beijing in 1989 as well as the editor of China's leading art journal, Meishu (Fine Arts) during the 1980s. Prof. Gao was educated at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. Since then, he has curated many exhibitions and written seminal publications on various aspects of contemporary Chinese art.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information about the lecture, please visit http://www.design.lsu.edu/.

Further information about Prof. Gao's work may be found at the following two sites:
http://tinyurl.com/yeodjvh
http://www.artresearchcenter.org/HomepageEnglish.asp

Finally, a brief history of the development and exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art may be found at the following two links:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/4999
http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777122473/