Eurasian fashion and the decorative arts 1500-1800
Date: 1 August 2022
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Location: Online via Zoom
This lecture will examine a series of artifacts that were fashions themselves: from Chinese export ceramics depicting fashions and fashionability, to reverse-painted portrait mirrors made for European traders.
This talk, based on Elly Kent’s recently published book of the same title, examines why so many artists in the world’s largest archipelagic nation choose to work directly with people in their art practices.
Exhibiting Collections at National Gallery Singapore
Date: 1 September 2022
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Location: Online via Zoom
This presentation by Russell Storer will look at how a regional art history was formulated in Singapore, and how it was positioned within global art histories through the Gallery’s program of changing exhibitions.
This lecture will examine some of the extraordinary tirtha pata made between the 15th and 20th centuries, and the fascinating cultural and historical information they hold. This lecture will examine some of the extraordinary tirtha pata made between the 15th and 20th centuries, and the fascinating cultural and historical information they hold.
Born into privilege in 1919, Maharani Kumari Gayatri Devi lived a charmed and extraordinary life that spanned the radical social and political changes of 20th century India.
