The Yale Club of London cordially invites you to:
Art Circle: ‘Asian Art in London’ Gallery Crawl
with
your guide Nixi Cura (SY ’88)
with
your guide Nixi Cura (SY ’88)
Sunday, 4 November 2018
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Sotheby’s
5:00 pm
Gallery crawl in St James’s
Lecture at Christie’s by Ivy Chan (Specialist) on
‘Colour, Form and Design: Chinese-Islamic Exchange in Blue and White’
followed by a reception
7:30 pm
Gallery crawl in St James’s meet at Sotheby’s
34-35 New Bond Street
Mayfair
London W1A 2AA
Please note:
Due to tight spaces in some galleries, the group is limited to 8 registrants.*****
YCL General Admission: Free!(Registration required, spaces limited)
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About the EventJoin YCL Art Circle for an ‘Asian Art in London’ gallery crawl curated by Nixi Cura (SY ’88). The evening will include drinks at several gallery openings and entry to a lecture and private reception at Christie’s.
About ‘Asian Art in London’
During this annual event, museums, dealers and auction houses offer exhibitions, sales and lectures on Asian art. From 1-10 November, London will become the hub for curators, collectors, students and art aficionados in this field. The gallery crawl will take place during the late-night openings in St James’s; the list of participating galleries and auction houses is listed in the calendar.
About Nixi Cura (SY ’88)
Nixi Cura read East Asian Studies at Yale, then specialised in Chinese painting and Buddhist art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her current research interests include Qing art, especially during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795), collecting and antiquarian practices in the Qing, Republican and Manchukuo periods, and contemporary Chinese visual culture. Nixi serves concurrently as Senior Teaching Fellow in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of London and as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She created and ran the Arts of China postgraduate programme at Christie’s Education/University of Glasgow as its Director from 2007 to 2017.
Questions?
Contact: Kyoung Kim
Please note: Photos and other forms of recording may be taken at the event and used by the YCL website from time to time.
