SOLD OUT “On Power and Beauty”: An exhibition preview talk with Robert Wilson and Liu Yang

Overflow seating in Wells Fargo Community Room.

Hear about the inspiration and first-of-its-kind collaboration behind “Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty,” an exhibition that engages the senses and evokes the dramatic world of the Qing court through rare art objects and experimental design, opening Saturday, February 3.  Renowned designer Robert Wilson and curator Liu Yang will be in conversation to discuss elements of the art and installation.

SOLD OUT Talk is free; tickets required, limited to 2 per person.  Call (612)870-3000 or click here to reserve.

A Mark and Mary Goff Fiterman Lecture

About the Speakers

Robert Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His collaborators have included Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed and Jessye Norman and Philip Glass, with whom he wrote the opera Einstein on the Beach (1976). Wilson is the founder and artistic director of the Watermill Center, a laboratory for the arts in Water Mill, N.Y. His work has been honored with a Pulitzer Prize nomination, two Premio Ubu awards, the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, and an Olivier Award.

Liu Yang. Ph.D. is Mia’s curator of Chinese art and head of the Department of Chinese and South and Southeast Asian Art. At Mia, his exhibitions have ranged from contemporary ink paintings by Liu Dan—one of China’s most renowned living artists—to a second terracotta warriors exhibition, which became the most popular show at the museum in nearly 25 years. Recently, with the help of Chinese artisans, he supervised the installation of a traditional residential courtyard gate outside Mia’s Chinese galleries.