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Huntington Library to open Chinese Garden s new art gallery in August
Xinhua
04 Jun 2021, 05:05 GMT+10
LOS ANGELES, June 3 (Xinhua) The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, announced Thursday that it would open a new art gallery in its Chinese Garden this August with an exhibition of Chinese calligraphy as its inaugural installation. The new gallery, the Studio for Lodging the Mind, or Yu Yi Zhai in Chinese, located at the north end of the garden, according to the famous collections-based research and educational institution in Southern California, the gallery is a 160-square-meter, light-and climate-controlled gallery space suitable for the display of works of art on paper or silk.
Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man And Shakuhachi Master Kojiro Umezaki s Album Flow To Be
Wu Man, the world s finest player of the pipa (The New York Times), is joined by one of her Silkroad Ensemble bandmates, shakuhachi virtuoso Kojiro Umezaki, on a new album, Flow (流芳), released by In a Circle Records (ICR). The album is currently available for pre-order on Bandcamp (digital and physical) and will be available Friday, February 19, through Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, and other major outlets.
Drawing upon folk tunes, contemporary styles, elements of improvisation, and the timbral interplay between these two ancient Chinese and Japanese instruments, the solo and duo works on this album are meant to evoke the changes of season in a traditional Eastern garden. Wu Man said:
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
Imagine sitting in a splendid 15-acre Chinese garden such as might be found in the ancient city of Suzhou, sipping jasmine tea in a shaded pavilion and listening to a young woman plucking the strings of a guzheng.
Then imagine you’re also in the heart of Southern California and can see on the horizon the purple-hued ridges of the San Gabriel Mountains, towering palms and the terracotta-tiled rooftops of Spanish-style houses.
Liu Fang Yuan (Garden of Flowing Fragrance), located at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in the city of San Marino, is a newly built masterpiece of Chinese flora, stone and wood.
Revamped garden blooms in California By LIU YINMENG in Los Angeles | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-14 07:28 Share CLOSE Liu Fang Yuan, also known as the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, in San Marino, Los Angeles County, California, United States, reopens to the public in October with 4.6 hectares of new landscape. [Photo/Xinhua]
For Mei-Lee Ney, a Shanghai-born immigrant and a major donor to the garden, it is a place where she can share her heritage with her community. I just thought it was a wonderful thing to do, to bring the Suzhou garden－to bring a part of China－to the United States, and it was wonderful that it was coming to my hometown, said Ney, president of an investment advisory company in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, who migrated to the US at age 2.