Tuesday, September 21, 2010

This Week at the IU Art Museum

September 20, 2010

Be among the first to check out the IU Art Museum's newest exhibitions! Celebrate the opening of From the Steppes and the Monasteries: Arts of Mongolia and Tibet and African Reinventions: Reused Materials in Popular Culture at a special reception this Friday at 6:30 p.m. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. The event is free, so don't miss it!

Please note that the student-produced fashion show, Our Deco: Then & Now, listed in the IU Art Museum's September printed calendar has been cancelled.

Opening Reception

From the Steppes and the Monasteries: Arts of Mongolia and Tibet

African Reinventions: Reused Materials in Popular Culture

Friday, September 24
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Thomas T. Solley Atrium

Special Exhibition

From the Steppes and the Monasteries: Arts of Mongolia and Tibet

September 25 through December 19, 2010
Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor

Mongolia. Flint Striker, 19th-20th century. Bronze, leather, silver. Promised gift, IU Art Museum LTL 5047.115.2

Spanning a time period from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century, this exhibition offers a tantalizing glimpse of the arts of Tibet and Mongolia, whose practice of Buddhism has joined them together at key moments in their history.

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