Lecture | Buddhist Sculpture in the Xuzhou Collection: The Development of Buddha Images in India and Beyond
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Location Main Campus | Kinder Building
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Lecture | Buddhist Sculpture in the Xuzhou Collection: The Development of Buddha Images in India and Beyond
Date & Time
Location Main Campus | Kinder Building
Drop off at Kinder Building
Art historian Jane Casey introduces important Buddhist sculptures from the Xuzhou Collection that are on view at the MFAH. She highlights Buddhist images from India, Sri Lanka, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia, placing them in historical and cultural context while showing continuities in representations of the Buddha as well as differences that reveal local interpretations of international Buddhist icons.
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- This event is included with Museum admission. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Plan Your Visit
- The lecture takes place in the Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building.
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About the Presenter
Jane Casey is an art historian specializing in Himalayan art. Educated in the History of Science (A.B.) and in Fine Arts (A.M. and Ph.D.) at Harvard University, she has worked as an independent art historian, curating exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at Casa Asia in Barcelona. She is a guest professor at the Zhejiang University Center for Buddhist Art in Hangzhou and a research fellow in Tibetan art at the Palace Museum in Beijing. She resides in Marlborough, New Zealand.
MFAH World Faiths Initiative
This program is part of the MFAH World Faiths Initiative, which seeks to highlight themes of faith, religion, and spirituality in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Focusing on the many expressions of faith in these collections, the initiative honors the diverse communities of Houston and inspires connections among cultures and beliefs.
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Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; the Claire & Theodore Morse Foundation; the Junior League of Houston, Inc.; and additional generous donors.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.