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Members’ Day Trip to the Staten Island Snug Harbor Cultural Center’s Chinese Scholar’s Garden and the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Saturday, June 9, 2012
11:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Join fellow members for special guided tours to the Snug Harbor Cultural Center’s New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, an authentic classical Chinese garden, and the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art.
Ticket Prices
$45 member / $55 non-member
Space is limited. Advance registration required.
To purchase tickets, click HERE.
Ticket price includes transportation by private coach, admission fees, and guided tours; bring your lunch or snacks.
Private coach leaves from China Institute at 11:30AM SHARP and returns to NYC by 6:00PM.
For more information, please call Jenny Liao at 212-744-8181 x137 or email jliao@chinainstitute.org.
Members’ Day Trip to ArtFarm in Hudson Valley, Upstate NY
Saturday, August 11, 2012
10:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Join fellow members for a visit to Chambers Fine Art’s ArtFarm, located in the scenic Hudson Valley of upstate New York. Built as a storage facility and annex to Chambers Fine Art, the ArtFarm was commissioned from HHF Architects and renowned Chinese artist/architect, Ai Weiwei, in 2006. The gallery space houses selections from gallery inventory and Mao’s private collection, and hosts thematic exhibitions. A reception follows our guided tour. During our trip, we also will visit the Terhune Orchards and Farm Stand nearby for some fruit picking and buying.
Ticket Prices
$45 member / $55 non-member
To purchase tickets, click HERE.
Ticket price includes transportation by private coach and guided tour; bring your lunch or snacks. Private coach leaves from China Institute at 10:30AM SHARP and returns to NYC by 7:00PM.
For more information, please call Jenny Liao at 212-744-8181 x137 or email jliao@chinainstitute.org.
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Members’ Holiday Party
Friday, December 3, 2010
6:00 – 8:00 PMChina Institute
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY
Join us for our Annual Members’ Holiday Party in appreciation of our loyal China Institute members!
Calligraphy and Brush Painting demonstrations
Wine tasting
Raffles
Chinese and holiday music
Guided tours of our current exhibition, Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language
Wine and dim sum
Ticket Prices
Members FREE / Guest of Member $20 (limit one guest per member)For more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
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Pieces of China
Discussion and Book SigningThursday, November 18, 2010
6:30 – 8 PMChina Institute
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY
Join fellow members for a special discussion and book signing about Pieces of China, China Institute Trustee Peter Lighte’s memoir which offers snapshots of bygone days. Told in a deceptively breezy voice by an unlikely Ming scholar and unlikelier banker, the stories about China in the 80’s illuminate shadows of the Cultural Revolution, the hilarity of bureaucracy, the complexity of relationships and the daily adventures of a young man who thinks he somehow fits into a world beyond the looking glass. Peter Lighte received his PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and was a professor prior to becoming a banker. He speaks Chinese and is a calligrapher, mosaicist, painter and writer, and an adoptive parent of two Chinese girls. He was the founding Chairman of JPMorgan Chase bank (China) from 2007–2010, and is currently the Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Global Corporate Bank (China). He is a Trustee of China Institute and Half The Sky. All profits from Pieces of China will be donated to Half the Sky, a foundation which seeks to bring a caring adult into the life of each orphan in China.
Ticket Prices
FREE Members / $10 Non-MembersFor more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
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Members’ Trip to ArtFarm
In Hudson Valley, Upstate NYSaturday, October 2, 2010
12:00PM – 6:00PMJoin fellow members for a visit to Chambers Fine Art’s ArtFarm, located in upstate New York, in the scenic Hudson Valley. Built as a storage facility and annex to Chambers Fine Art, the ArtFarm was commissioned from HHF Architects and renowned Chinese artist/architect, Ai Weiwei, in 2006. The gallery space houses selections of contemporary Chinese art from Chambers’ gallery inventory and Christophe Mao’s (owner of Chambers Fine Art) private collection, and hosts thematic exhibitions. Our trip will also give members an opportunity to view the beautiful fall foliage. A reception follows our guided tour at Mr. Mao’s home nearby.
Ticket Prices
$35 member / $40 non-member
$20 member / $25 non-member (without transportation)Space is limited. Ticket price includes transportation by private coach; bring your lunch or snacks.
Private coach leaves from China Institute at 12:00 noon SHARP and returns to NYC by 6:00 pm.
For more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
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The President and Trustees of China Institute in America cordially invite you to a reception and preview of
Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008:
Towards a Universal Pictorial LanguageWednesday, September 15, 2010
6:00PM – 8:00PMChina Institute
125 East 65th Street, New York, NYThough China has had a long history in woodcuts and printing, the western woodcut, printed with oil-based ink, was adapted in the early 20th century by Chinese artists searching for a simplified pictorial language that would resonate with the illiterate masses. They not only created the beginnings of communist art in China, but laid the foundation of modern Chinese art in the most general sense. While past scholarly publications and survey exhibitions have familiarized wider audiences with aspects of the modern Chinese woodcut movement, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to present a comprehensive overview of the beginnings and development of this important art form during the modern period of Chinese history from the 1930s to the present.
Ticket Prices
This invitation admits two
Additional guest $20 per person
RSVP by Friday, September 10, 2010For more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
Chinese Art Tour at Christie’sSunday, September 12, 2010
4:00PM – 8:00PMChristie’s
20 Rockefeller Plaza, 49th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
New York, NYPlease join fellow China Institute members for an afternoon of Chinese Art at the world renowned auction house, Christie’s. This exclusive event will include a private tour by Christie’s specialists, featuring the upcoming New York Chinese Works of Art sale, and highlights of the Sze Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection. A panel discussion on Chinese Contemporary Art and a reception will follow the tour.
Ticket Prices
FREE Members / Members OnlySpace is limited. This event has SOLD OUT.
For more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
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A Visit to the Staten Island Snug Harbor Cultural Center’s
New York Chinese Scholar’s GardenSaturday, May 15, 2010
2:00 – 3:30 PMSnug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY
Join fellow members for a special guided tour of Snug Harbor Cultural Center’s New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden. The New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, opened in 1999, is an authentic classical Chinese garden, based on the original design of leading Chinese garden designer Zou Gongwu.Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, a distinguished Smithsonian Affiliate, is Staten Island’s premier destination for culture and entertainment. Set within a stunning 83-acre park-like setting, Snug Harbor presents a unique blend of gardens, museums, theaters, educational opportunities, and seasonal festivals.
Ticket Prices
$15 member / $20 non-memberSpace is limited. Ticket price includes admission fees and a guided tour.
For more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
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Rank Badges and the Chinese Civil Service Examination Process
Friday, March 26, 2010
6:30 – 8:30 PMChina Institute
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY
Join fellow members for a special lecture by Dr. David Hugus on rank badges and the Chinese civil service examination process. Dr. Hugus is an internationally renowned rank badge expert and is co-author of Ladder to the Clouds. He has had rank badge articles published in Arts of Asia magazine and the Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. He has lectured at museums in San Francisco, Oakland and Hong Kong, Asian Societies in Los Angeles and Hong Kong and the preservation society in Long Beach, California.
Dr. Hugus will lecture on the Chinese civil service examinations that were a prerequisite for wearing a rank badge and tell us how to identify the various birds and animals that denoted ranks among the Chinese Imperial bureaucrats. An examination on identifying birds and animals will be a part of the lecture.
Members are encouraged to bring their own rank badges for viewing and discussion.
Ticket Prices
FREE Members / $10 non-memberFor more information, please contact Jenny Liao at 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
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The President and Trustees of China Institute in America
cordially invite you to a reception and preview ofConfucius
His Life and Legacy in ArtWednesday, February 10, 2010
5:30 – 7:30 PMChina Institute Gallery
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065RSVP by February 5, 2010
This invitation admits two. Additional guests $20 per person.
For more information, please email or call 212-744-8181 x137.
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Members’ Holiday Party
Thursday, December 10, 2009
6:30 – 8:30 pmChina Institute
125 East 65th Street, New York, NYJoin us for our third Annual Members’ Holiday Party in appreciation
of our loyal China Institute members!* Calligraphy demonstration *
* Tea tasting *
* Raffles *
* Chinese and holiday music *
* Guided tours of our current exhibition
Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography *
* Wine and dim sum *
Ticket Prices
Members Free / Guest of Member $20 (limit one guest per member)
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The President and Trustees of China Institute in Americacordially invite you to a reception and preview ofHUMANISM IN CHINAA Contemporary Record of PhotographyWednesday, September 23, 20095:30 – 7:30 PMChina Institute Gallery125 East 65th StreetNew York, NY 10065RSVP by September 18, 2009
Individual, Renwen Society, Young Associate Members may bring a guest.
Dual/Family Members may bring up to TWO guests.
Red Envelope, Silk Purse, Jade Box and Scholar’s Circle members may bring up to FOUR guests.
Friends of the Gallery may bring up to FOUR guests.
CURATOR’S LECTUREMultiple Lenses
Humanism: A Contemporary Record of Photography was curated by museum professionals, photographers and scholars who will discuss the concept behind the exhibition, the selection process of the photographs and how to contextualize the images for an American audience.Jerome Silbergeld is a China Institute Gallery Committee member and P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History at Princeton University.
He selected the photographs and wrote the accompanying English catalog for China Institute’s installation of Humanism.
Thursday, September 24 ~ 6:30–8 PM
$10 member / $ 15 non-member
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Celebrating Chinese Music at Carnegie Hall
Join fellow China Institute members for special performances at Carnegie Hall for its first China Music Festival, Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture.
Monday, October 26 ~ 7:30 PM
Ensemble ACJW playing chamber music from the Class of 1978In 1978, after the Cultural Revolution, Chinese music conservatories once again opened their doors to a new generation of composers. This program features chamber music by these extraordinary figures who have since revitalized contemporary Chinese music: CHEN QIGANG Instants d’un Opéra de Pékin for Solo Piano; CHEN YI Qi for Flute, Cello, Percussion, and Piano; BRIGHT SHENG String Quartet No. 3; GUO WENJING Parade for Six Peking Opera Gongs, Op. 40; ZHOU LONG Taigu Rhyme for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Percussion.
Friday, October 30 ~ 8 PM
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra playing Chinese music in western orchestral configurationThe Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, one of the world’s leading symphonic ensembles of traditional Chinese instruments, performs arrangements of traditional music as well as newly composed works: LAW WING-FAI Flowing Phantasm; GUO WENJING Three Melodies of West Yunnan; ZHAO JIPING Zhuang Zhou’s Dream; CHENG DAZHAO The Yellow River Capriccio.
Tuesday, November 10 ~ 8 PM
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Lang LangThe incomparable pianist Lang Lang joins China’s oldest Western-style orchestra, founded in 1879, for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The program closes with a contemporary Chinese classic, Chen Qigang’s Iris Unveiled.
Ticket Prices:
October 26: $25 per ticket Members and Guests
October 30: $56 per ticket Members and Guests
November 10: $76 per ticket Members and Guests
All three performances $152
Ticket prices include service fees, orchestra seating for all performances.For more information, please call Jenny Liao at 212-744-8181 x137 or email jliao@chinainstitute.org.
Events at China Institute
Thursday, October 22 ~ 6:30 – 8 PM Calligraphy and the Qin
Thursday, November 5 ~ 6:30 – 8 PM Traditional Chinese Music in the 21st Century
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Shen Wei Dance Arts
Re- (I, II, III)Saturday, July 11, 2009
8:00 pmAlice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
1941 Broadway (at 65th St.),
New York, NYJoin your fellow China Institute members for a special event presenting Shen Wei Dance Arts at Lincoln Center Festival at the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall.Hailed by the New York Times as “startlingly imaginative”, Shen Wei Dance Arts (SWDA) creates interdisciplinary, cross-cultural performance for forward-looking audiences. Each work by Artistic Director Shen Wei develops an original dance vocabulary incorporating visual and storytelling elements from the theater, Chinese opera, Eastern philosophy, traditional and contemporary visual art, and sculpture. The result, at turns figurative and abstract, combines performance with strong scenic elements to create a “fascinating fantasy in movement” (Sydney Herald Sun).Artistic Director Shen Wei is a choreographer, director, dancer, painter and designer, and is widely recognized for his defining vision of an intercultural, interdisciplinary, utterly original mode of movement-based performance. For more info about Shen Wei Dance Arts, please go to .
For this performance, Shen Wei has created a three-part work to include an updated version of his captivating Re- I (Tibet), the equally compelling Re- II (Angkor Wat), and Re- III (New Silk Road), a piece that reflects his journey to China and back. This performance is approximately two hours and ten minutes with two intermissions.
Please note: There is no late seating.
Ticket Prices:
$38 per ticket Members and GuestsFor more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
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Members’ Holiday Party
Friday, December 9, 2011
6:00 – 8:00 PMJoin us for our Annual Members’ Holiday Party in appreciation
of our loyal China Institute members!
Calligraphy and Brush Painting demonstrations - Chinese and holiday music
- Guided tours of our current exhibition:
Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974–1985 - Raffles
- Wine and dim sum
Ticket Prices
Members Free / Guest of Member $20 (limit one guest per member)
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Members’ Day Trip to ArtFarm
in Hudson Valley, Upstate NYSaturday, October 29, 2011
10:30 AM – 7:00 PMJoin fellow members for a visit to Chambers Fine Art’s ArtFarm, located in the scenic Hudson Valley of upstate New York. Built as a storage facility and annex to Chambers Fine Art, the ArtFarm was commissioned from HHF Architects and renowned Chinese artist/architect, Ai Weiwei in 2006. The gallery space houses selections from gallery inventory and Mao’s private collection, and hosts thematic exhibitions. The current exhibition at ArtFarm is Characters: Works by Gu Wenda, Yang Jiechang, Wang Tiande, Qiu Zhijie, Feng Mengbo, Song Dong, Cui Fei and Hong Lei. A reception follows our guided tour. Our trip will also give the members an opportunity to view the beautiful fall foliage in the Hudson Valley and visit a working farm nearby for some pumpkin picking.
Ticket Prices
$45 Members / $50 Non-membersTicket price includes transportation by private coach; bring your lunch or snacks.
Private coach will leave from China Institute at 10:30am SHARP.For more information, please call Jenny Liao at 212-744-8181 x137 or email jliao@chinainstitute.org.
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The President and Trustees of China Institute in America
cordially invite you to an opening reception and preview ofBlooming in the Shadows
Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985Wednesday, September 14, 2011
6:00 – 8:00 PMChina Institute Gallery
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
RSVP by September 9, 2011
212.744.8181 ext. 112This invitation admits two
Additional guests $20 per person
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A Visit to the Storm King Art Center
Hudson Valley, Upstate NYSaturday, April 30, 2011
12:00 – 6:00 PMJoin fellow members for a special visit to the Storm King Art Center in upstate New York’s scenic Hudson Valley. Widely known as one of the world’s outstanding sculpture parks, Storm King Art Center’s permanent collection of sculpture, dating from 1945 to the present, includes works by Maya Lin, the well-known Chinese American artist, environmentalist and designer of the Veteran’s Memorial in Washington D. C., whose 11-acre, undulating, and ocean-like Storm King Wavefield (with “waves”) reaches as high as 15 ft., and Mark di Suvero, Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, Andy Goldsworthy, and David Smith. There will be a guided tour and leisure time to explore the Center.
Ticket Prices
$45 Members / $50 Non-membersSpace is limited. Ticket price includes transportation by private coach, admission fee and a guided tour; bring your lunch and camera. Private coach leaves from China Institute at 12:00 noon SHARP and returns to NYC by 6:00 pm
For more information, please call Jenny Liao at 212-744-8181 x137 or email jliao@chinainstitute.org.
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Rank Badges of the Yongzheng Emperor’s Reign
Saturday, March 19, 2011
4:00 – 6:00 PMChina Institute
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
Join fellow members for a special lecture by Dr. David Hugus on rank badges of the Yongzheng Emperor’s reign. Dr. Hugus is an internationally renowned rank badge expert and is co-author of Ladder to the Clouds. He has had rank badge articles published in Arts of Asia magazine and the Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. He has lectured at museums in San Francisco, Oakland and Hong Kong, Asian Societies in Los Angeles and Hong Kong and the preservation society in Long Beach, California.
Dr. Hugus will lecture on the evolution of the rank badge design during an unusually dynamic artistic period of the Qing Dynasty. The lecture will cover the topics in an article that was recently published by Drs. Hugus and David S. Yee in the January-February 2011 issue of Arts of Asia.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their own rank badges for viewing and discussion.
Ticket Prices
FREE Members / $10 Non-membersFor more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
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The President and Trustees of China Institute in America
cordially invite you to an opening reception and preview ofALONG THE YANGZI RIVER
Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from HunanWednesday, January 26, 2011
6:00 – 8:00 PMChina Institute Gallery
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
This invitation admits two
Additional guests $20 per personFor more information, please call 212-744-8181 x137 or email .
Photos from Member Events
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Chinese Art Tour at Christie’s
Sunday, March 18, 2012
3:00 – 5:00 PMChristie’s
20 Rockefeller Plaza (49th Street)
New York, NY
In celebration of Asia Week in New York, join fellow members for a special tour to view the Chinese Works of Art and Asian Art at the renowned auction house.
Ticket Prices:
FREE member / member’s guest $20 per person
Space is limited. Advance registration required.SOLD OUT
For more information, please call Jenny Liao at 212-744-8181 x137 or email jliao@chinainstitute.org.
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The President and Trustees of China Institute in America
cordially invite you to an opening reception and preview ofTHEATER, LIFE, AND THE AFTERLIFE:
Tomb Décor of the Jin Dynasty from ShanxiWednesday, February 8, 2012
6:00 – 8:00 PMChina Institute
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
RSVP by February 3, 2012
212-744-8181 ext. 112This invitation admits two
Additional guests $20