Post by Saionji Shonagon on Jul 26, 2010 23:27:31 GMT -5
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX, August 27, 2010 – January 2, 2011
www.hmns.org/exhibits/special_exhibits/silk_road.asp
and the Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA, February 5 - June 5, 2011
www.penn.museum/press-releases/786-east-coast-exclusive-from-china-qsecrets-of-the-silk-roadq.html
I had to make a trip down to LA, found out about this at the last minute and was lucky enough to fit in a visit on the final weekend of this exhibition at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. If you're interested in archaeology, particularly of Silk Road cultures, it's marvelous! The mummies and artifacts from Urumchi were fascinating and touching, but there were also a number of funerary artifacts, textiles and so forth from the T'ang Dynasty (contemporaneous with Heian Japan) that were really interesting regional (in some cases rustic) variants on the sorts of things that I'm familiar with from the Shoso-in collection. The one that had me bouncing enough to alert a curious docent was a miniature sugoroku table that bears a strong resemblance to the one from the Shoso-in, pictured on Effingham-sensei's website:
www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/sugoroku.html
The Bowers is out of copies of the exhibition catalogue, but it looks like the Penn Museum has them available through their website and museum shop already.
www.hmns.org/exhibits/special_exhibits/silk_road.asp
and the Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA, February 5 - June 5, 2011
www.penn.museum/press-releases/786-east-coast-exclusive-from-china-qsecrets-of-the-silk-roadq.html
I had to make a trip down to LA, found out about this at the last minute and was lucky enough to fit in a visit on the final weekend of this exhibition at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. If you're interested in archaeology, particularly of Silk Road cultures, it's marvelous! The mummies and artifacts from Urumchi were fascinating and touching, but there were also a number of funerary artifacts, textiles and so forth from the T'ang Dynasty (contemporaneous with Heian Japan) that were really interesting regional (in some cases rustic) variants on the sorts of things that I'm familiar with from the Shoso-in collection. The one that had me bouncing enough to alert a curious docent was a miniature sugoroku table that bears a strong resemblance to the one from the Shoso-in, pictured on Effingham-sensei's website:
www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/sugoroku.html
The Bowers is out of copies of the exhibition catalogue, but it looks like the Penn Museum has them available through their website and museum shop already.