Cabinet of Tibetan and Newari Arts and Musical Responses
to Buddhist Thought: An Installation
Beginning Wednesday, August 31 to Monday, October 31,
2005
Opening reception Thursday, September 22, 2005, 6:00
to 8:00 p.m.
Mabel Smith Douglass Room and Gender Studies Resources Room
Mabel Smith Douglass Library
8 Chapel Drive
New Brunswick, NJ
Featuring Tibetan sculpture, paintings, masks, and musical instruments from the Fazio collection in conjunction with an audio-video installation of Patrick Gardner conducting La Koro Sutro, composed by Lou Harrison.
Admission and Information
This event is free and open to the public. For further information including
hours of operation, call 732/932-9407, ext. 23.
Through Western Eyes: Documentation of
Tibet at Special Collections and University Archives
Thursday, September 1 to Saturday, December
31, 2005
Lobby, Alexander
Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ
Admission and Information
This event is free and open to the public. For further
information including hours of operation, call 732/932-7507.
Tibet, the Mysterious Land--Learning from the East Asian Library Collection
Beginning Tuesday, September 6 to Monday, October 31, 2005
East Asian Library Entrance Area
Second Floor, Alexander Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ
Featuring the library collection on Tibet, including vernacular books and other materials (e.g. photos released by Xinhua News Agency, Tibetan prayer sheets) in Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese. The collection opens a window to the mysterious land from the aspects of religion, politics, culture, history, art, anthropology, linguistics, literature, geography, and more. A bibliography is available.
Admission and Information
This event is free and open to the public. For further information including hours of operation, call 732/932-7161.
Wednesday, September 21 to Saturday, September 24, 2005
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art
Museum
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ
Admission and Information
This event is free with museum admission, $3; no admission charge with valid Rutgers ID. Tickets are available
for purchase at the museum. For further information, contact the Zimmerli
Art Museum.
Photographs of Tibet by K.T. Miller
Beginning Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Opening reception Friday, September 23, 2005, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Art Library at Voorhees
Hall
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ
Admission and Information
This event is free and open to the public. For further information including
hours of operation, call 732/932-1696.
Exhibition of South Asian Contemporary Art
Monday, May 8 through Saturday, June 17, 2006
Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Mason Gross Galleries
at Civic Square
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ
Admission and Information
This event is free and open to the public. For further information, call
732/932-2222.
Tibetan Art Collection
An ongoing exhibition at The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ
Featuring an art collection brought from Eastern Tibet from 1911 to 1920 by American medical missionary Dr. Albert L. Shelton, as well as three other missionary collections from the same region gathered between 1928 and 1935. Also featuring rare historical photographs documenting traditional lifestyles of Tibet and its people in the first half of the twentieth century.
Admission and Information
The Newark Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free for museum members; $7 for adults; and $3 for children, seniors, and students with valid ID. For more information, contact The Newark Museum.
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