EXCELLING THE WORK OF HEAVEN: PERSONAL ADORNMENT FROM CHINA will be open from October 28 - December 14, 2007 at the University of Hawai'i Art Gallery. It features nearly 700 exquisite objects of personal adornment made of silver, jade, kingfisher feathers, ivory, precious stones, and coral created predominantly during late imperial China (1368-1911) from the San Francisco-based Shyn collection, with special loans from the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
On Sunday, October 28: a special lecture by Terese Tse Bartholomew, curator of Himalayan art and Chinese decorative art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, at 1:00 p.m., followed by the opening reception from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
On Sundays beginning November 4, guided tours of the exhibition will be offered from 2:00-3:00 p.m. A catalogue of the exhibition will be available for purchase.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
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