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 China: 5,000 Years explores the themes of innovation and transformation during the great eras of Chinese art. Organized by the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the National Administration for Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China, the exhibition comprises approximately 500 works of art in a wide variety of media, ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the modern era. It is the first major museum exhibition to unite both traditional and modern Chinese art. The traditional section of the exhibition,
which includes major recent archaeological discoveries,
masterworks of landscape painting, rare religious
sculpture, and finely wrought luxury goods, will fill
the uptown galleries of the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum. The twentieth-century section, the first
systematic exploration of modern Chinese art by a major
North American museum, will be presented in the
large-scale spaces of the Guggenheim Museum SoHo. The works in the exhibition have been brought together from over fifty lenders in seventeen provinces and regions in China, creating an exhibition of unprecedented scope and magnitude. Many of these objects have never before been seen outside of China. |
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Sherman Lee, retired Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and a world-renowned authority on Chinese art, is the curator of the traditional section of the exhibition with Howard Rogers serving as consulting curator. Julia Andrews, a leading scholar of modern Chinese art and author of Painters and Politics in The People's Republic of China, 1949-1979, is curator of the modern section together with Kuiyi Shen, Presidential Fellow at The Ohio State University. |
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China: 5,000 Years has been organized by the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the National Administration for Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China, China International Exhibition Agency and Art Exhibitions China. |
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Significant additional support has been provided by: The Starr Foundation The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation Mori Building Company Limited This exhibition has also been made possible in part
by a major grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, expanding America's understanding of who we
were, who we are, and who we will be. |
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