Basil Gray Curator: Chinese Paintings, Prints and Central Asian Collections @britishmuseum / all tweets are my own
London
Joined March 2013
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Please apply! Several wonderful programs, including one based in London to study the Stein collections of paintings and manuscripts with @ImreGalambos and me
[Call For Application]: 2022 FROGBEAR Phase 2 Research Cluster Activities: bit.ly/3juNmsa | Application deadline April 15, 2022 or until spaces are filled! Apply online bit.ly/3O3PwwF
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Landscape, or ‘shanshui’ (literally ‘mountains and waters’), has long been the subject of artistic and cultural expression in China.
👀 Zoom in to see the figures on this 15th-century painted scroll
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ALT A mid-brown painted hanging scroll showing mountains and trees, with a small group of figures in the bottom left hand corner.
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#Museum30 Day 17 & 18 Time for a #celebration🎉of our newly published paper on #textile borders in Asian paintings in @Heritage_MDPI by a collaborative team from @britishmuseum led by @DiegoTamburini1. Read it free & #openaccess here: mdpi.com/2571-9408/4/4/240
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Fully funded AHRC Collaborative PhD:
@UoMICP & @britishmuseum
Decolonising the Sacred: Acknowledging colonial experiences of Tibetan Buddhist collections in the British Museum. Deadline 25th June.
Open to Home and International Students jobs.ac.uk/job/CFZ770/ahrc-c…
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#Lecture: The Stein Collection in the British Museum by Luk Yu-ping @YPLuk (Dunhuang Foundation), 15 April 2021 (1:00 PM ET)
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#Art #AsianArt #BuddhistArt #Dunhuang #BritishMuseum #OnlineLecture
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Registration is open for our second joint webinar on #EastAsianArt #artmarket #provenanceresearch!! This time we will focus on ‚Yamanaka&Co‘: April 15 | 2.30-6 ECT | @FreerSackler @kulturSPK @PPR_Dahlem #MuseumfürAsiatischeKunst : smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/…
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For more on the pioneering women that inspire us 💪@britishmuseum, check out the blog👇@MVandenbeusch @YPLuk @EleanorGhey @CatherineDaunt @aurelia_masson, Duygu Camurcuoglou, Jeannette Plummer Sires & Ann Lumley @boodlemum #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2021 blog.britishmuseum.org/pione…
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Aurel Stein's acquisitions at Dunhuang: a taster of a forthcoming article. silkroaddigressions.com/2021…
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"Inscribed Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the British Museum" - talk by Dr Yi Chen, at Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London, 13 Dec 2019 ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/events…
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After our winter object rotation, the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia has now reopened. Be sure to look round on your next visit and see what new objects you can spot on display!
Explore the gallery online wherever you are here: ow.ly/I2IG30pXBCv
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As the colour fades from our own landscapes this December, Wen Zhengming's 'Wintry Trees' depicts a scene that is fittingly wan and bare.
Follow the link below to watch this #henitalk with @CraigClunas
bit.ly/WintryTrees
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45 years (OMG) after the Cambridge photo (left), some of us held a reunion on the occasion of HIH Princess Takamado’s visit to the renovated BM Japanese Gallery. This post explores our diverse and changing perceptions of China in the 1970s and since stephenjones.blog/2017/11/14…
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Sir Aurel Stein's publications are available online and may be downloaded for free at this website: archive.org/search.php?query…
From Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
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Bodhisattvas of Wisdom & Compassion by a Chinese & a Tibetan hand respectively. Dating to 12th-13th c AD, both paintings were uncovered by Russian excavator Kozlov from a hidden library in a pagoda in the Gobi desert, testifying to multiculturalism of the ancient Tangut kingdom.
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馬國俊《敦煌書法藝術研究》（文物出版社，2018, ISBN 9787501052219）- Ma Guojun on calligraphy at Dunhuang mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qkc9YLUQU…
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A calligraphy master preserves Hong Kong’s lost art of signwriting buff.ly/2mG4Q7w
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Cleveland Museum of Art announced a conservation center dedicated to Chinese paintings with the $1.5 million gift artforum.com/news/cleveland-…
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Thanks for all the tweets about my Mao badge catalogue (2008). It’s in the @britishmuseum Research Publications Series - one of over 200 books, many available online (a few by me) #openaccess - britishmuseum.org/research/p…
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Managed to fit in a brief trip to @Tate Tate Modern to see one of their new acquisitions, Xiao Lu's 'Dialogue' 1989 remade 2015. Great to see this iconic work in the gallery.
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Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of oriental art treasures ; exhibited at the Yamanaka[...] (1916) archive.org/stream/illustrat…
