12:30 – 2:00pm
UCLA
Charles E. Young Research Library – Main Conference Room
VICTORIA LU 陸蓉之was born into a literati family in Taiwan. She emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1970s. She attended both the College of Chinese Culture in Taipei and the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels but received her BA and MA degrees from California State University, majoring in painting. She started writing art criticism in the mid-1970s for Taiwanese newspapers and magazines. She began her curatorial career by the end of 1970's. Later, she returned to Taiwan, helping the government to establish policies regarding public art and the promotion of art education to the general public. Victoria Lu is the first female art critic and curator in the Chinese contemporary art world. Victoria Lu is currently a professor at the Fashion and Media Design Graduate School of Shih-Chien University in Taipei. She also serves as the Creative Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.
Riverboats of Painting and Calligraphy:Studios-in-Motion of the Chinese Literati
書畫船—中國文人的“流動畫室”
(Followed by calligraphy demonstration)
6/3 Wednesday
4:00 – 6:00pm
UCLA
Charles E. Young Research Library – Main Conference Room
Emperor Qianlong's Entrusted-to-Serenity Mountain Villa:The Reconstruction of a Lost Imperial Garden
重建一座消失的乾隆静寄山莊
6/4 Thursday
7:30 – 9:00pm
UCLA
Rothenberg Hall, Huntington Library
Fu Shen 傅 申 (b. 1937)is an eminent Chinese art historian, world-renowned connoisseur of painting and calligraphy, and a practicing calligrapher and painter. Dr. Fu received his Ph.D. from Princeton University after working at the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. He has held several distinguished posts, including Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Yale University(1975-79); Senior Curator of Chinese Art at the Sackler and Freer Galleries, Smithsonian Institute; and senior faculty and Emeritus Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University(Taipei). Dr. Fu has written numerous scholarly books and articles concerning the history and connoisseurship of Chinese painting and calligraphy, and he frequently exhibits his creative art.
These events are part of the Spotlight Taiwan Project. Cosponsored with Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA Department of Art History, Robert Kuo, Huntington Library, and Taiwan Academy.