UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE 2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley, California 94720 tel: (510) 642-0808, 642-1124; fax: 510 642-4889 internet: www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
		•Face of the Buddha: Sculpture from India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia November 8, 2000 - through 2003
			Graceful stone figures from China on long-term loan from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in New York, together with small Buddhist sculptures from the Berkely Art museum's collection, form an intense if literally fragmentary picture of the spread of Buddhist devotions throughout Asia.
		•Face of the Buddha Lecture: Sunday, January 21, 3:00 p.m.
			Sheila Keppel (Adjunct Curator for Asian Art) discussed the exhibition of small Buddhist sculptures arranged to give a view of the breadth of Buddhist devotions throughout Asia, focusing on two Chinese sculptures from the Northern Wei period, and a lovingly painted late Tang period image of the bodhisattva Guanyin, newly arrived from the Sackler Foundation in New York.
		•Tall Landscapes of the Late Ming December 8, 2000 - February 18, 2001
			This exhibition provides an apportunity to examine an outstanding and unique group of paintings from the museum's own collection -- a selection of very tall and attenuated, sometimes heaped and piled mountain landscapes. The search for originality may be a driving force behind the explosion of these works painted a few years before the country fell to Manchu invaders in 1644.
		•Tall Landscapes of the Late Ming Gallery Talk: Sunday, January 28, 3:00 p.m.
			Katharine Burnett (University of California, Davis) will explore some of the reasons these landscapes proliferated in the waning years of the Ming Dynasty.
		•The Further Eye: Painting of India Through February 18, 2001
			This changing exhibition features delicate, intensely colored paintings from the museum's holdings, including works from the Jean and Francis marshall Collection. In particular, the exhibition illustrates the convention of the "further eye," an important landmark of early Indian painting. Featured from the 17th century are the flat pattened traditional paintings of the state of Mewar contrasted by the representational, historical paintings of hte Mughal court.
		•The Further Eye: Painting of India Lecture: Sunday, December 3, 2000, 3:00 p.m.
			Caroline Duke (Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley) will present a tour of the Indian miniature paintings and drawings on view in this exhibition. Duke, who specializes in the painting of South India, will focus on the "further eye" convention, a landmark in early Indian painting, while discussing a number of works in the exhibition that demonstrate the striking range of Indian painting.
		•Ink Guests and Town Painters in Japanese Art February 24 - May 27, 2001
			Paintings, prints and ceramics in this exhibition are divided between the art styles developed in Japan's newly urban centers of hte 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and the work of those painters who traveled to the countryside, living in monasteries or as "ink guests" of wealthy farmers or merchants. A highligh of the exhibiti is the large screen and a small painting by Yosa Buson, who was perhaps the most well-known poet and artist of Nanga or Bujinga painting of the 18th century.
		•Chinese Ceramics: The First Three Thousand Years Ongoing
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