Lecture and Q&A at DePaul Art Museum at 935 W. Fullerton Ave.

Free

Each artist in Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now reflects, challenges, and furthers the living practices within the Himalayan region, but where do these traditions come from? What role do objects play in these traditional and ongoing practices? How do sacred objects, though beautiful, differ from art? On January 23rd, Robert Linrothe, Associate Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art History at Northwestern University and the first curator of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, will share his in situ research on these traditional objects, analyzing the techniques used to make these relics, the rituals they connect to and the visual heritage imbued across generations. Join us this Thursday at the DePaul Art Museum from 6 PM to 7 PM for a lecture, followed by a Q&A.

About the speaker

Robert Linrothe is the Associate Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art History at Northwestern University and former curator at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. He is a specialist in the Buddhist art of the Himalayas. He received a PhD in art history from the University of Chicago and, through his fieldwork, has concentrated on the premodern painting and sculpture of Ladakh and Zangskar (Northwest India) and the contemporary revival of monastic painting in Amdo (China, eastern cultural Tibet). In 2016–2017, Linrothe received a Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies to do fieldwork in eastern India on 8th to 13th-century sculpture in Bihar, West Bengal, and Odisha. Linrothe has published extensively including Visible Heritage: Essays on the Art and Architecture of Greater Ladakh, ed. Rob Linrothe and Heinrich Pöll; and Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and its Legacies (2015) and “‘Utterly False, Utterly Undeniable’: The Akaniṣṭha Shrine Murals of Takden Phuntsokling Monastery,” Archives of Asian Art (2017).

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