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| Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting is at the Asia Society New York City until May 20, 2018. |
Mysterious, exotic, even other-worldly Tibet’s aura has captured the imagination of the Western mind for centuries.
On February 27, 2018 Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting opened to the public at the Asia Society in New York City. The exhibition features stunning paintings collected by Italian scholar Giuseppe Tucci during his 1926-1948 expeditions to Tibet, along with striking photography of his travels.
Go to this link for an introductory video of the exhibition.
The paintings – on loan from the Museum of Civilization – Museum of Oriental Art ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ in Rome, Italy are on public view for the first time in the United States.
The exhibition closes May 20, 2018.
Tune-in to 1490 WGCH/WGCH.com Greenwich, Connecticut USA at 10:30 a.m. Eastern USA Time/10:30 p.m. Beijing Time on April 7 as we welcome the exhibition’s guest curator Dr. Deborah Klimburg-Salter, PhD.
She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1976, followed by her Habilitation from University of Vienna in 1989.
Klimburg-Salter is an art historian and emeritus professor of non-European Art History at the Department of Art History, University of Vienna. She is director of the research platform Center for Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asia, as well as director of the research network The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya financed by the Austrian Science Fund.
Her other accomplishments include being a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton; Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin; and at Magdalen College, Oxford University. She has been visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania; the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford; the Ecole Pratique des Haute Etude in Paris; and she was the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College.
Deborah Klimburg-Salter is the research director of the Giuseppe Tucci Photographic Archive. Her work has involved extensive fieldwork and writing on the art and archaeology of Afghanistan, Northern India and Tibet.
The Asia Society was founded in 1956 by John D Rockefeller 3rd. It is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among people's, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Learn more at AsiaSociety.org.
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