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Wong Chai Lok, The Art of Learning

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Events This Week  
April 24-29, 2012  
ART FOR LUNCH: [space]: Constructing the Intangible
Thursday, April 26, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

 

Student curators from Cornell's History of Art Majors' Society will discuss their exhibition.
NEW! SPECIAL EVENT: Wong Chai Lok
Sunday, April 29, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

 

Wong Chai LokWong Chai Lok, an educator and master calligrapher from Hong Kong, will present a special demonstration and public workshop. His work is on view in the Wait Family Gallery on the Museum's 5th floor.

 

Above: Wong Chai Lok (b. 1924), The Art of Learning.
Hanging scroll: ink on paper. Zhuanshu (seal script).  

SUNDAY ARTBREAK: Art Outside Part III
Sunday, April 29, 3:00-4:00 p.m.

 

In the final session of this special series, explore how art and ecology can intersect.

 

Exhibits On View  
Memory and the Photographic Image
Walker Evans, Untitled, ca. 1936

April 14-September 9      

 

Memory plays a role in a photographer's choice of subject and its interpretation, creating images that could become the only record of a moment passed. But photographs can be manipulated, so is this record truthful? This exhibition looks at the ways artists translate personal memories onto film.

 

[space]: Constructing the Intangible
Richard Estes, Untitled, 1981

April 14-July 22       

 

The annual History of Art Majors' Society exhibition explores new concepts of space in visual culture and fine art.

 

 

Age of Discontent: German Expressionist Works
from a Private Collection
Max Beckmann, Die Nacht

April 7-July 29      

 

Artists including Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and others created powerful images with figural distortion and a bold graphic style to describe the devastating aftereffects of WWI in Germany.
Witness: 20th-Century Photographic Images from the Collection of Gary and Ellen Davis
Dorothea Lange, Damaged Child

April 14-August 12       

 

Works by some of the greatest and most incisive photographers of the 20th century, including Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Garry Winogrand, and others.

 

Cornell Art Faculty
Maria Park

April 14-August 12       

 

Every two years the Johnson Museum invites members of Cornell's Department of Art to participate in a faculty exhibition featuring recent work.
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