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Wu Hung: 鈥淲hat Is Contemporary Chinese Art?鈥�
April 15, 2008
The curator of the MOCRA exhibition Miao Xiaochun: The Last Judgment in Cyberspace discusses the concept of 鈥渃ontemporary Chinese art鈥� in relation to the medium, content, and style of this art, as well as the aim of this art and its relationship with Chinese society.
The lecture will take place in the Saint Louis Art Museum Auditorium, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, and is co-sponsored by MOCRA and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Art historian and curator Wu Hung is one of the world鈥檚 leading authorities on contemporary Chinese art. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago, the Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum, and the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Wu Hung has curated over 30 exhibitions internationally. In 2006, he was Chief Curator of the 6th Gwangju Biennale (First Chapter: Trace Root鈥擴nfolding Asian Stories). His current exhibition projects include Re-Imagining Asia (recently opened in Berlin), and Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art (to open at the Smart Museum next October). His publications include Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century (University Of Chicago Press, 1999), Monumentality in Early Chinese Art (Stanford University Press, 1995), Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press, 1997), and Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space (2005).
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Wu Hung
| Exhibition | |
|---|---|
| 2018-10-07 to 2018-10-14 | 
Walking in Hope: A Weeklong Celebration of the Canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero |
| 2017-04-20 | 
鈥淭he Hand Acts Out a Joyous Dance鈥�: Celebrating the Art of Bernard Maisner |
| 2016-09-25 | 
Erika Diettes: 鈥淪tories Told from the Threshold鈥� |
| 2015-12-06 | 
So That You Know Each Other: Intercultural Reflections on Art, Beauty, and Islam |
| 2014-11-15 | 
John Handley: “The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso” |
| 2018-09-28 to 2018-09-29 | 
Fleur-de-Lis Floral Art Walk |
| 2014-02-23 | 
鈥淭he Economy of Gift鈥� in Socially Engaged Art Practices: A Public Deliberation |
| 2013-10-02 | 
Art21: The Spiritual Light screening at CAM |
| 2013-03-02 | 
Rituals and Spirituality in the Performative Photographic Work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons |
| 2012-11-11 | 
Breaking Boundaries: A Conversation about the Art of Patrick Graham |
| 2012-05-20 | 
Stephen P. Durchslag: 鈥淭he Jewish Experience and the Haggadah鈥� |
| 2012-03-27 |
2012 Loyola Chair Lecture: “The Image of the Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Consciousness” |
| 2011-10-06 |
2011 Loyola Chair Lecture: 鈥淭he Pursuit of the Spirit: The Renewed Interest in the Spiritual and Religious Dimensions in Contemporary Art鈥� |
| 2011-05-01 | 
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淕eorges Rouault and the Art of Sacred Engagement鈥� |
| 2010-11-15 |
Terrence Demspey, S.J.: “Creating a Religious Environment through Contemporary Art and Architecture” |
| 2010-03-28 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “The Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Conscience” |
| 2009-12-01 | 
Day With(out) Art |
| 2009-11-15 | 
Michael Byron: “Cosmic Tears: Word and Image” |
| 2009-03-29 | 
Art and the Religious Imagination |
| 2008-04-15 |
Wu Hung: 鈥淲hat Is Contemporary Chinese Art?鈥� |
| 2007-10-07 | 
Celluloid Bible Classics: The Ten Commandments |
| 2007-11-04 | 
Celluloid Bible Classics: Ben-Hur |
| 2007-09-16 | 
Michael Morris, O.P.: 鈥淢oving Pictures: The Bible and Beyond鈥� |
| 2007-03-30 | 
Peter Frank: 鈥淎n Oskar Fischinger Tribute鈥� |
| 2006-12-01 | 
Day With(out) Art |
| 2005-12-04 | 
Robert Rosenblum: 鈥淒oDo Jin Ming: An Art Historian's View鈥� |
| 2003-09-07 | 
To Make Extraordinary: The Role of Sacred Objects in Life and Worship |
| 2002-05-04 | 
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A University Response |
| 2002-04-30 | 
Fred D. Gray: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Study That Should Never Have Occurred |
| 2002-01-31 | 
Cloudlanders |
| 2002-01-26 | 
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Last Temptation: Andy Warhols Art as Belief鈥� |
| 2000-11-30 | 
Day With(out) Art |
| 2001-04-06 | 
Bare Naked Statues in concert |
| 1999-04-15 | 
Two Lectures: Ellen Dissanayake and Jack Renard |
| 1999-03-27 | 
Bernard Maisner: 鈥淭he Art of the Illuminator鈥� |
| 1998-03-22 | 
Renaissance and Modern |
| 1997-11-15 | 
The Role of the Computer in Contemporary Art |
| 1997-07-24 | 
Jennifer Biddle: Body, Country, Canvas: Meaning and Identity in Central Desert Aboriginal Women鈥檚 Art |
| 1997-06-07 |
Creativity as Ancestral Mind: Living with the Ancestors |
| 1997-02-27 | 
The Artist and the Theologian Dialogue: The Body of Christ as Veiling and Unveiling the Invisible God |
| 1996-12-01 | 
Day Without Art |
| 1996-05-19 | 
The Artist as Poet: Readings by Edward Boccia |
| 1995-05-20 | 
Ian Friend: 鈥淭he Edge of Belief鈥� |
| 1995-05-04 | 
Peter Selz: 鈥淒egenerate Art鈥� |
| 1995-02-05 | 
Lynn Hague in recital |
| 1994-11-13 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淭he Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS鈥� |
| 1994-12-01 |
Day Without Art |
| 1994-11-05 |
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Changing Face of AIDS鈥� |
| 1994-11-01 |
The Amici String Quartet in recital |
| 1994-10-15 | 
Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the TIme of AIDS dance program and opening reception |
| 1993-10-29 | 
I Remember Alvin |
| 1993-11-05 | 
An Evening with Katherine Dunham |
| 1992-11-07 | 
The Artist and Sacred Space |