For more information about or to RSVP to any of the Friends events listed, please contact Rachel Wood, Friends Coordinator, at 202.633.0448 or e-mail woodr@si.edu.
Annual Friends Day and Dinner
Saturday, September 12, 2009
On this special day, Friends are invited to participate in a daytime program that includes behind-the-scenes tours led by curators, a talk by Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler Galleries, and a light lunch. See below for information on this year’s tours. The event concludes with an evening black-tie cocktail reception and dinner. Invitations will be mailed to all Friends in early August.
Fate, Fortune, and the Falnama
Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, discusses folios from the Falnama, a sixteenth-century manuscript used by royalty and commoners in Safavid Iran and Ottoman Turkey to foretell the future.
New at the Archives
Archivists David Hogge and Rachael Woody present Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s photography collection of “East meets West” encounters, and the recent conservation of Ernst Herzfeld’s drawings documenting ancient Near Eastern civilization.
Seeing Babur
Debra Diamond, Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, looks at paintings created by Mughal masters and related to Babur (1483–1530), the founder of the Mughal empire in India.
Studying Khmer Stone Sculpture
With the aid of petrography and electron microscopy, Conservation Scientist Janet Douglas demonstrates scientific research efforts to preserve Khmer stone sculpture in Cambodia.
Kyushu Kilns
In a hands-on session, Louise Cort, Curator of Ceramics, examines ceramics made at kilns in southern Japan, from stoneware tea bowls to enamel-decorated porcelain—and many unfamiliar genres in between.
Narrative Modes in Japanese Art
From folding screens to prints and books, Ann Yonemura, Senior Associate Curator of Japanese Art, explores the extraordinary range of Japanese narrative art in the museums’ collections.
Looking Back and Facing Forward
Join Carol Huh, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Asian Art, to discover the evolution of portraiture in Asian photography through historical images in the Archives and contemporary works in the Sackler collection.
Sixth-century Buddhist Sculpture from Xiangtangshan
Keith Wilson, Associate Director and Curator of Ancient Chinese Art, leads a workshop featuring an important group of Chinese Buddhist stone sculptures from the cave chapels at Xiangtangshan.
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