October 16, 2021 | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} + Zoom – Presented as part of the Faith in Arts Institute. This talk by Pamela D. Winfield examined the tensions and tactics involved in exhibiting Buddhist visual culture in modern museum spaces. It first critically examined the ideological divide between sacred and secular that reduced powerful Buddhist icons into aesthetic objects within 19th century Euro-American collections of Asian “art.” If the 19th century transferred the temple ou...
