Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting
VIEW EVENT DETAILSMembers Opening Tea Reception and Lecture
Members-only opening with curator's lecture for the exhibition Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting.
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Program
4:00 pm Tea reception
5:30 pm Docent-led tour
Galleries open until 9:00 pm
6:30 pm Lecture: Walking With Tucci: A Visual History of Tibet
Join art historian and exhibition guest curator Deborah Klimburg-Salter as she introduces the extraordinary group of works from the Museum of Civilisation/Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci," Rome, featured in Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting. Deborah Klimburg-Salter, University Professor Emeritus, CIRDIS, Institute for Art History, University of Vienna, and Associate, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University is research director for the Giuseppe Tucci Photographic Archive and guest curator for the Tucci collection (MU-CIV / MAO "Giuseppe Tucci").
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Tickets for the lecture distributed at the front desk beginning at 5:00 pm
Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting is on view through May 20, 2018
Event Details
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