Nassau County Museum of Art Presents its First Exhibition Devoted to Chinese Art

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Northern Qi (550-577), Head of a Bodhisattva. Sandstone, 13 3/8 x 7 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Sackler Collections.

NEW YORK---"China Then and Now" brings together exemplary Chinese works of art from the classical, early modern and contemporary periods. The exhibition explores three millennia of one of the world’s most important artistic traditions from the perspective of American collectors on Long Island, such as Childs and Frances Frick and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. The exhibition is at Nassau County Museum of Art from November 22, 2014 through March 8, 2015; it was organized by guest curators Amy G. Poster, Curator Emerita of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and Kaijun Chen, Ph.D., post-doctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science. [link]