Curator Perspectives on Empresses of China’s Forbidden City

Curator Perspectives on Empresses of China’s Forbidden City

How is a major exhibition created across two continents and three museums? Join Empresses cocurators Jan Stuart and Daisy Yiyou Wang to learn about the origins of this groundbreaking exhibition, which highlights accomplishments of women at the Qing dynasty court. Stuart and Wang will discuss the process of creating the exhibition in collaboration with the Palace Museum in Beijing. Plus, they’ll share how empresses of the period exerted influence in the arts, 宗教, 政治, and diplomacy.

Stuart is Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer|Sackler. Wang is the Robert N. Shapiro Curator of Chinese and East Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

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