| Details | This panel explores the key role museums can play today in enhancing public understanding of world cultures. It also addresses how the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art educates global audiences about Chinese art and culture, building on a history of excellence in scholarship, programming, and international collaboration. This event is co-organized with the Committee of 100.
Panelists:
Chase F. Robinson is the Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, which together form the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. He joined the museum in December 2018. As director, he is leading the museum through the implementation of a five-year strategy that will expand its renowned collections of the arts of East Asia, South Asia, and the Islamic world; celebrate its century-long association with American art; introduce new audiences and technologies; and foster a greater understanding of the arts, cultures, and societies of Asia.
Jan Stuart is the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer and Sackler, where she recently curated the exhibition Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912 in 2019. She was head of the Asian art department at the British Museum from 2006 to 2014. Jan began her career after holding a Mellon Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chinese art, language, and culture.
Gao Hong is a Chinese performer, composer, and educator who is a master of the pear-shaped lute, the pipa. She began her career as a professional musician at age twelve and later graduated from China's premier music school, the Central Conservatory of Music, in Beijing. Since coming to the United States, she has performed at the Lincoln Center Festival, Carnegie Hall, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival and at festivals in Paris, Caen, Milan, and Perth. In 2017, she became the first Chinese musician to play the national anthem at an NBA basketball game, which she did on pipa for the Minnesota Timberwolves in Minneapolis.
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