SAN JOSE, California (March 16, 2011)—The San Jose Museum of Art’s free Lunchtime Lecture series will continue on Wednesday, April 6, at 12 noon, with a talk by Santhi Kavuri-Bauer. Kavuri-Bauer is associate professor at San Francisco State University, where she specialized in modern and contemporary Asian art history. In her lecture, entitled “A Historical Survey of Indian Modern Art,” she will explore Indian art from the 1900s to the 1980s in the context of India’s history, culture, and politics. Her talk is offered in connection with the exhibition Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India. Admission to the lecture is free. Regular Museum admission applies to the galleries.
Kavuri-Bauer is the author of the forthcoming book Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity and Space of India’s Mughal Architecture, to be published by Duke University Press later this year. She holds an MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Lunchtime Lectures are offered on the first Wednesday of the month, September through May. Visitors are welcome to bring food and beverages; lunch is available for purchase at Café Too.
Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India, on view through September 4, is drawn entirely from eleven private collections in the San Francisco Bay Area. The exhibition showcases important works of modern and contemporary South Asian art that are rarely seen on the West Coast. Included are paintings by renowned modernists such as Maqbool Fida Husain, Tyeb Mehta, Francis Newton Souza, and Sayed Haider Raza. Today’s contemporary generation of rising talents and global trendsetters is represented by Rina Banerjee, Zarina Hashmi, Jitish Kallat, G.R. Iranna, Bari Kumar, and Surendran Nair, among others. The exhibition is sponsored by Bank of America and Applied Materials.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
The San Jose Museum of Art is a distinguished museum of modern and contemporary art and a lively center of arts activity in Silicon Valley. The leading institution in the area dedicated to the art of our time, SJMA is committed to providing access for its extraordinarily diverse populations and to pioneering new approaches to interpretation.
The San Jose Museum of Art is located at 110 South Market Street in downtown San Jose, California. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens, and free to members and children under 6. For more information, call 408-271-6840 or visit www.SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.
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Programs at the San Jose Museum of Art are generously supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, by operating support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the James Irvine Foundation; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; the Adobe Foundation; and the Koret Foundation; the MetLife Foundation; and a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose.