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Porcelains and Power: The Politics of Chinese Art in the Age of American Ascendancy
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesA talk by Dr. Ian Shin (Department of American Culture, University of Michigan), co-sponsored with the Department of History. How can we understand the relationship between art collecting and Western imperialism as more than simply a story of victim and aggressor, of the plundered and the plunderer? From the Gilded Age to World War II,…
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Collecting African, Ancient Mediterranean, and Native American Art
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAckland Director Shalini Le Gall moderates a discussion with specialists in African, Ancient Mediterranean, and Native American art: Dr. Victoria Rovine of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Art and Art History, Dr. Jennifer Gates-Foster of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Classics, and Nancy Chavis, director and curator of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at UNC-Pembroke.…