Virtual Member Lecture: Cosmoscapes—Ink Paintings by Tai Xiangzhou

Artist Tai Xiangzhou and Tao Wang, Pritzker Chair of the Arts of Asia, curator of Chinese art, and executive director of initiatives in Asia, discuss how the artist’s works reveal a non-Western classical worldview and assert its relevance in our increasingly globalized age.

The exhibition “Cosmoscapes: Ink Paintings by Tai Xiangzhou” brings together 13 works by the acclaimed artist—including horizontal and vertical scrolls, screens, and album leaves drawn from the artist’s own collection and others in the United States—that together dissolve and even transcend distinctions between the traditional and the innovative. Tai’s extraordinary paintings are not only visual but also visionary, leading the viewer into imaginary realms and inspiring wonder toward the unknown universe.