Guest Lecture: Orianna Cacchione on Contemporary Chinese Art

Art & Architectural History invites you to the upcoming guest lecture 鈥淭o Enter Art History – Determining the Canon and Institutional Critique in Contemporary Chinese Art鈥� by Orianna Cacchione (Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Smart Museum and Lecturer Contemporary Art, Asian Art, University of Chicago), which takes place next Friday, Feb 5, 11:30 am 鈥� 12:30 pm on zoom (Join Zoom Meeting: )
The lecture considers how Chinese artists conceptualized their relationship to Western art and art history in the late 1980s, with a particular focus on how conceptions of Western art history catalyzed a shift from the jubilant experimentation and development of a new Chinese art to an urgency to canonize a domestic history of contemporary art.