Newark Museum Reinstalls Galleries and Includes a Focus on Buddhism, Taoism, Confucius

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Tahlib

Image: Guanyin, China, Song Dynasty (960-1279),
Wood, gesso, colors, gold, Herman P. and Paul E. Jaehne Collection, Gift 1939 39.370

NEW JERSEY---The Newark Museum will re-install three permanent galleries devoted to Chinese art this summer including "China's Religious Arts: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucius and the Cult of Mao" on August 8, 2012. Multiple religious arts populate the diverse regions of China. Some traditions, like Confucianism, Taoism and the Cult of Mao developed within China. Others religious traditions —Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam — entered with foreign traders, missionaries and shifting populations. Through poignant groupings of devotional objects related to most of these traditions, the distinctions and interplay of Chinese aesthetics and religious meanings will be explored.