FRAGMENTS & EMPIRE: CAMBODIAN ART FROM THE ANGKOR PERIOD

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FRAGMENTS & EMPIRE: CAMBODIAN ART FROM THE ANGKOR PERIOD
March 6 – May 6, 2016
John Young Museum of Art

SPECIAL EVENTS
All events are free and open to the public.

Sunday, March 6, 2016
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Opening reception
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Gallery walk-through with Kristin Remington, curator,
Fragments & Empire

Friday, March 11, 2016
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lecture: A Heritage of Ruins: The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation, by Dr. William R. Chapman, Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Professor

Tuesday, April 5, 2016
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Film Screening & Discussion: Phnom Penh, Rescue Archaeology: The Body and the Lens in the City
Discussion to follow by Erin Gleeson, curator and co-founding Artistic Director of SA SA BASSAC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jaimey Hamilton Faris, and Paul Lavy

Sunday, April 10, 2016
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Panel Discussion: John Young, Artist as Collector, with Roger Bellinger, Co-Founder of the John Young Foundation and Victor Kobayashi, Professor Emeritus and Founding Dean of Outreach College, UHM

Fragments & Empire examines Cambodian (or Khmer) art of the Angkor Empire, which dominated much of mainland Southeast Asia from the ninth through the fifteenth centuries. It includes examples of sandstone architectural fragments, ceremonial bronzes, and stoneware vessels associated with the styles of the imperial capital as well as their transmission into peripheral regions in modern-day northeastern Thailand.

This exhibition highlights and brings together for the first time the collection of Cambodian art from the John Young Museum of Art (JYMA) and a significant portion of John Young’s collection from the Honolulu Museum of Art (HMA). It offers an opportunity to study the historical works as a comprehensive collection. Twenty-four artworks from the JYMA and eleven digital images from the HMA are featured. The digital images will be viewable on electronic tablets.

This exhibition is curated by Kristin Remington as part of her MA thesis in South and Southeast Asian art history.

SPONSORS

John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu Museum of Art, Department of Art + Art History, UHM Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program, UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UHM Student Activity and Program Fee Board

Gallery hours:
Mon. – Fri. 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. or by appointment
Closed: Sat. – Sun.; Spring Break, Mar. 21–24; Prince Kūhiō Day & Good Friday, Mar. 25.
Free admission. Donations are appreciated. Parking fees may apply.

Image:
Architectural relief, Angkor, 11th-13th century, sandstone
Collection of the John Young Museum of Art
Photographer: Brandon Ng. Courtesy University of Hawai‘i Art Galleries