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  • Friday, October 3, 8:00 am – 3:30 pm – Nichols House Museum Symposium: In the House and on the Web, 21st Century Strategies for Interpreting Historic Interiors

    On Friday, October 3, five speakers from Europe and the United States will come together to share experiences from their museums and heritage sites which have successfully integrated technology into interpretations of their historic interiors and landscapes. From mobile applications to virtual recreations, learn from these 21st-century innovators and come away with cutting-edge ideas from museum professionals around the world. Please join The Nichols House Museum for this full-day event, 8 – 3:30, at The Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street in Boston. $75 fee.

    Speakers:

    Lee Glazer, PhD- Associate Curator, American Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
    Victoria Kastner – Historian, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California
    Annie Kemkaran-Smith – Curator (Art Collections) Down House, National Collections Group, London, UK (pictured below)
    John A. Sibbald – Founder and First Chairman, Virtual Hamilton Palace Trust, Hamilton, Scotland
    Loic Tallon – Senior Mobile Manager, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    Optional Activities

    Lunch is available either at the Union Club (additional $45 per person) or on your own. More information coming soon on a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to tour two recently re-installed British period rooms, the dining room from Hamilton Palace (1700) and the drawing room from Newland House (1748), with Thomas S. Michie, Russell B. and Andree Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe. Additional fee will be required.
    Cancellation Policy

    Full refunds will be given for cancellations received by Friday, September 26, 2014. No refunds will be made after September 26, 2014. Register by calling 617-227-6993, email info@nicholshousemuseum.org, or register online at www.nicholshousemuseum.org/symposium_2014.php.

  • Sunday, April 27 – Wednesday, April 30 – The 22nd Annual Newport Symposium: East Meets West, Centuries of Exchange

    Join The Preservation Society of Newport County to celebrate the centennial of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont’s Chinese Tea House at Marble House through an exploration of the complex and varied responses to the Far East “ real and imagined “ in the visual arts of Western Europe and The United States. On Sunday, April 27 – Wednesday, April 30, leading scholars will discuss the exchange of objects and the myriad interpretations of Chinoiserie through the lens of European and American architecture, furniture, painting, ceramics, textiles, gardens and collections from the 18th through the 20th centuries.

    Newport has been a nationally significant repository for treasures from the Far East from its Golden Age in the eighteenth century to the Gilded Age. Boasting examples ranging from the rich collections of China trade objects at Hunter House (c. 1748), Kingscote (1841), and Chateau-sur-Mer (1852) to the incorporation of 18th century Chinese lacquer panels into the decoration of The Elms (1902), the Preservation Society’s properties provide a uniquely focused lens through which participants will see the interplay of Eastern and Western design influences on American design and decorative arts. Featured speakers include:

    Sir Hugh Roberts
    Former Director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art
    United Kingdom

    Joan de Jean
    Trustee Professor of French, University of Pennsylvania

    Lee Glazer
    Curator of American Art, Freer-Sackler Galleries (Smithsonian)
    Washington, D.C.

    Carolyn Sargentson
    Senior Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum
    London

    Judy Bullington
    Chair, Art Department, Belmont University
    Nashville, TN

    Ronald Fuchs
    Curator, Reeves Collection, Washington & Lee University
    Lexington, VA

    Laurie Brewer
    Assistant Curator of Costume and Designs, Rhode Island School of Design
    Providence, RI

    Maggie Lidz
    Estate Historian, Winterthur Museum, Delaware

    Noel Fahden Briceno
    Category Manager, Vintage and Antiques, One King’s Lane

    Admission is $500 for Preservation Society Members, $550 for nonmembers, which includes a one-year membership. Register now at http://www.newportmansions.org/events/newport-symposium or call 401-847-1000, ext. 154. There are special room rates at the Hotel Viking: log on to www.hotelviking.com, click on Reserve, click on Enter Group/Negotiated Code under the calendar, which will take you to the online booking portal, then enter online booking code 1JU603 under Special Codes.