Berkeley Art Museum - Museum Theater
2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

November 18 2010, 5 pm

Lecture by Jeff Watt:
Traditional Tibetan Art: Beyond Iconography and Religion

Copresented by UC Berkeley’s Center for Buddhist Studies

Followed by a special viewing of Tibetanpaintings on loan to BAM/PFA.

Jeff Watt was the founding curator at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York and is currently the director and chief curator of Himalayan Art Resources (HAR ), a website and virtual museum.

In conjunction with Himalayan Pilgrimage
Explore the journey of Buddhism across several centuries and from India into Tibet through exceptionally beautiful objects of sculpture and painting dating from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries