ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM Harvard University Art Museums 485 Broadway Cambridge, Massachusetts 01238 Tel: (617) 495-9400 internet:www.artmuseums.harvard.edu
		•Antoin Sevruguin and the Persian image November 3, 2000 - June 10, 2001
			Fifty photographs of rulers, courtiers, commoners and daily life in Iran from the late 1870s to 1930s juxtapose the extraordinary and the familiar in this display. Antoin Sevruguin (late 1830s -1933) was one of Iran's most creative and prolific early photographers. The exhibit includes modern prints made from his original glass-plate negatives, and is presented in thematic groupings that focus on the royal court, Iranian landscape and antiquities, everyday life, ethnographic photographs, women, and Western fantasy. Sevruguin's photographs are clearly inspired by both European and Iranian models and provide a chronicle of an unprecedented period in Iranian history in which modernity and tradition stood side by side. To add further context to the works by Sevruguin, the exhibition will include a photographic album assembled by Ronald William Graham, a member of the British Legation at Tehran at the turn of the century. The album contains original albumen and gelatin silver commercial prints by Sevruguin, interspersed with Graham's own snapshots. Also on display will be an album containing an additional 15 images from the larger collection housed at the Freer & Sackler archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
		•Streams and Mountains Without End: East Asian Landscape Painting November 25, 2000-August 26, 2001
			The exhibit will display an impressive array of East Asian landscape paintings from the SacklerUs permanent collection and other private collections. Typically comprised of towering mountains and flowing streams, landscapes emerged as the principal subject of Chinese painting by the Song dynasty (960-1279) and have remained preeminent amongst the arts of East Asia for over 1000 years. These landscapes, whether real or imagined, reflect the philosophical search for the principles underlying the unity and harmony of nature, a search intricately linked to Taoism.
		Lecture: May 19, 2001, 11:30 a.m. Streams and Mountains Without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan Anne Rose Kitagawa (Arthur M. Sackler Museum)
		•The Sensuous and the Sublime: Representations of Love in the Arts of the Middle East and Southern Asia July 7 - December 30, 2001
			This exhibition presents many facets of love, sacred and profane, as expressed in the artwork of Iran, India, Tibet, and Nepal, produced during the 13th to 19th centuries. Inspired by sacred literature, lyric poetry, and folk tales, artists often created paintings and sculptures that could be read alternately as visualizations of overt sensuality or as symbols of spiritual union.
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