Curators’ Conversation: Art of the Word: Calligraphy and Chinese Artists

Friday, March 7, 6 – 7 PM

Join Florida International University Curator of Chinese Art Dr. Lidi Yi and Norton Curator of Chinese Art Laurie Barnes for a discussion of two works on view by Wu Chang-shuo (1844 – 1927) and Lee Chun-yi  (born. 1965) that are based on ancient Chinese inscriptions carved in stone. Wu repeats characters that were originally carved into a famous ancient granite boulder which is part of a group of 10 stones, which are the oldest known surviving Chinese stone inscriptions and national treasures. Lee dab-prints the text of the Heart Sutra, which was translated into Chinese by the monk Xuanzang in 649 after his pilgrimage to India from 629 to 645 to secure Buddhist scriptures.

Space is limited; online registration required (available January 25 members and February 1 for non-members).

Cost: Museum Admission/Members FREE

ArtSpeaks: Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation

Friday, March 7, 6:30 – 8 PM

Drawn from Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese's latest book, Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation (Duke University Press, 2024), this lecture examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States. Saggese will focus on the case of Australian heavyweight boxer Peter Jackson, known as “the Black Prince,” and a series of nude photographs taken of him in San Francisco in 1889. Connecting to the themes of the exhibition Strike Fast, Dance Lightly on view at the Norton Museum of Art, she will explore how these unconventional renderings of Jackson’s body set the stage for contemporary discussions about the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport in the United States.

Space is limited; online registration required (available January 25 members and February 1 for non-members).

Cost: Museum Admission/Members FREE

Artist Panel Discussion: Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing

Saturday, March 8, 2 – 3:30 PM

This discussion features artists Cheryl Pope, Rose Marie Cromwell, and Jared McGriff, whose work is in Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, in conversation with Jordana Saggese, Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art History, and Archaeology and Director, David C Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora and Arden Sherman, Glenn W. and Cornelia T. Bailey Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton.

Space is limited; online registration required (available January 25 members and February 1 for non-members).

Cost: Museum Admission/Members FREE

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