Center for the History of Collecting

Ilona Katzew: "Sense of Mission, Aesthetic Sense: Why Build a Collection of Spanish Colonial Art?"

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May 16, 2014 
Ilona Katzew, Curator and Department Head, Latin American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, presents "Sense of Mission, Aesthetic Sense: Why Build a Collection of Spanish Colonial Art?" during the two-day symposium titled The Americas Revealed, Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States. This event was organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection.

Ronda Kasl: "An American Museum: Representing the Arts of Mexico at the Metropolitan Museum"

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May 16, 2014
Ronda Kasl, Curator of Colonial Latin American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents "An American Museum: Representing the Arts of Mexico at the Metropolitan Museum" during the two-day symposium The Americas Revealed, Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States. This event was organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection.

Welcome to The Americas Revealed, Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States

Link to video of Ian Wardropper and Inge Reist introducing the symposium 'The Americas Revealed, Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States'

May 16, 2014 WELCOME

Ian Wardropper, Director of The Frick Collection and Inge Reist, Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Art Reference Library, introduce the two-day symposium The Americas Revealed, Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States. This event was organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection.

Edmund de Waal: "Start Again: Collections and Memory"

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The Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection celebrates the inauguration of its Fellows Program with a lecture Start Again: Collections and Memory by Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance.

Jane DeBevoise and Uli Sigg: "Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art, a Conversation"

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March 16, 2012, Jane DeBevoise, Chair, Asia Art Archive, New York and Hong Kong, with Uli Sigg, collector of contemporary Chinese art, Lucerne present "Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art, a Conversation" for the symposium 'The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.

Christine Guth: "Collecting Japanese Prints in America..."

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March 16, 2012, Christine Guth, Head, Asian Design Specialism, Royal College of Art, and History of Design Programme, Victoria and Albert Museum, London gives her lecture "Collecting Japanese Prints in America: A Taste for Democracy?" for the symposium 'The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.

Daisy Yiyou Wang: "Mammon and the Muse: International Art Dealers..."

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March 16, 2012, Daisy Yiyou Wang, Chinese Art Project Specialist, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. gives her lecture "Mammon and the Muse: International Art Dealers and Charles Lang Freer's Chinese Collection" for the symposium 'The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.

Jason Steuber: "Laurence Sickman: Pioneer and Connoisseur of Chinese Art"

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March 16, 2012, Jason Steuber, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of FLorida, Gainsville gives his lecture "Laurence Sickman: Pioneer and Connoisseur of Chinese Art" for the symposium 'The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.

Adriana Proser: "Foundations of an East Asian Canon in Postwar America..."

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March 16, 2012, Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Curator of Traditional Asian Art, Asia Society Museum, New York gives her lecture "Foundations of an East Asian Canon in Postwar America: Sherman Lee, John D. Rockefeller III, and Japan, 1946--53" for the symposium 'The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.

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