Join associate curator Sarah Laursen for a lecture on opium and Chinese art-two influential commodities traded in China, the British Empire, and Massachusetts between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
This lecture is offered in conjunction with the exhibition "Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade" (September 15, 2023-January 14, 2024), which explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. These two commodities-acquired through both legal and illicit means-had profound effects on the global economy, public health, immigration law, education, and the arts that are reverberating still today.
Speakers:
+ Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art;
+ Introductory Remarks by Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums.
Explore the exhibition: harvardartmuseums.org/exhibit...
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This program is presented in partnership with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Support for "Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade" is provided by the Alexander S., Robert L., and Bruce A. Beal Exhibition Fund; the Robert H. Ellsworth Bequest to the Harvard Art Museums; the Harvard Art Museums’ Leopold (Harvard M.B.A. ’64) and Jane Swergold Asian Art Exhibitions and Publications Fund and an additional gift from Leopold and Jane Swergold; the José Soriano Fund; the Anthony and Celeste Meier Exhibitions Fund; the Gurel Student Exhibition Fund; the Asian Art Discretionary Fund; the Chinese Art Discretionary Fund; and the Rabb Family Exhibitions Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Additional support for this project is provided by the Dunhuang Foundation.
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