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Korean Treasures at Harvard Series
Sarah Laursen
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University
Sarah Laursen is the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art at the Harvard Art Museums and oversees the Chinese art collection as well as parts of the Korean and Central, South, and Southeast Asian collections. A specialist in early medieval China, her research interests include East Asian archaeology, digital humanities, technical art history, collecting history, and contemporary Asian and Asian American art. She co-curated Earthly Delights: 6,000 Years of Asian Ceramics with Chief Curator Soyoung Lee (summer 2022) and worked with students to curate Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade (fall 2023) and the virtual exhibition Reframing Tianlongshan (spring 2021).
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Abstract:
The Harvard Art Museums possess an extraordinary collection of more than 1,400 Korean works of art, ranging from second-century ceramics to 21st-century paintings, porcelains, and textiles. Yet at any given time, only a handful of these precious works are on view. In this talk, curator Sarah Laursen outlines recent plans to increase the visibility of Korean art at the museums, with particular attention to the ceramics, goldsmithing, and Buddhist art of Korea’s Three Kingdoms period.
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Generously supported by the Jeffrey D. and Jean K. Lee Fund at the Korea Institute, Harvard University