A Cosmopolitan Taste: Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain in the Frick Collection

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In conjunction with the exhibition, China Then and Now, on view through March 8, Nassau County Museum is offering talks by internationally recognized experts in various aspects of Chinese art and art collecting. Each of the talks will be held on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Admission for each lecture is $15 (museum members, $5) and includes museum admission. Advance registration is required as space is limited. Register at nassaumuseum.og/events.

A Cosmopolitan Taste: Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain in the Frick Collection
Kaijun Chen, Ph.D.
Saturday February 28 at 3 p.m.
Kaijun Chen, co-curator of China Then and Now, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute, Berlin, and a specialist in the porcelain production at Jingdezhen, the premier center in China from the 14th to the 20th century. Chen discusses the Frick Collection of Chinese porcelains with a focus on the blue-and-white porcelains amassed by Childs Frick, a Long Island collector whose mansion now houses Nassau County Museum of Art. Frick’s collection of porcelains epitomizes the dynamic connection of China and the world as well as reveals the cosmopolitan vision of American entrepreneurs in the early 20th century.

Other Talks include:

Chinese Art and Long Island Collectors: A Curator’s Perspective
Amy G. Poster
Saturday, March 7 at 3 p.m.

China Then and Now Exhibit Now through March 8, 2014

Nassau County Museum of Art Presents Its First Exhibition Devoted to Chinese Art 
Rarely Seen Ming & Qing Dynasty Porcelains from the Frick Collection
First Millennium Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collection
Contemporary Ink on Paper Works by Noted Beijing Artist Liu Dan

China Then and Now brings together exemplary Chinese works of art from the classical, early modern and contemporary periods. The exhibition explores three millennia of one of the world’s most important artistic traditions from the perspective of American collectors on Long Island, such as Childs and Frances Frick and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler.

China Then and Now unfolds over three galleries, each of which showcases the elegant beauty of Chinese art of a different era and medium. The exhibition opens with eleven large-scale classical stone sculptures lent by the Arthur M. Sackler Collections at Columbia University. At the heart of China Then and Now, is an installation of blue-and-white porcelains from the Ming and Qing eras (17^th to 18^th centuries) collected by Childs and Frances Frick and on loan, for the first time, from The Frick Collection in New York. This display reunites these works with their original setting, the Georgian-style Bryce-Frick mansion that is today the home of the Nassau County Museum of Art. A final gallery presents extraordinary ink paintings by the renowned Beijing artist Liu Dan (born 1953) whose works bridge traditional forms with contemporary practices.

Nassau County Museum of Art’s first exhibition devoted to Asian art, China Then and Now sheds new light on a fascinating chapter in America’s engagement with China and its arts. This exhibition reveals the passion of American collectors of both the past and present for the culture and history of China.

The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4:45 p.m.

Docent-led tours of the exhibition are offered at 2 p.m. each day; tours of the mansion are offered each Saturday at 1 p.m.; meet in the lobby, no reservations needed. Tours are free with museum admission.

Family art activities and family tours are offered Sundays from 1 pm; free with museum admission.

Call (516) 484-9338, ext. 12 to inquire about group tours.

Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students with ID and children aged 4 to 12. Members and children under 4 are admitted free.

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Event categories: Exhibitions and Workshops/Classes.Event tags: Art, Artist, Education, Exhibit, History, Lecture, Museum, Nassau, Painting, and Sculpture.