Norton Simon Museum ancient sculpture exhibit opens April 22

The Norton Simon Museum Presents
Where Art Meets Science:
Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu-Buddhist World
April 22-August 1, 2011

The Norton Simon Museum presents Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu-Buddhist World, a small exhibition that examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving ancient Asian sculpture.

A collaboration between the Museum's assistant curator, Melody Rod-ari, and its conservator, John Griswold, the exhibition features nine works primarily of Cambodian origin from the Norton Simon collections.

Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu-Buddhist World is on view in the Museum's small rotating exhibitions gallery on the main level from April 22 through August 1. It is organized in celebration of Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia, on view February 22 through August 14 at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center.

Programming for Where Art Meets Science includes the following free lecture:
Ancient Forms, Modern Copies: The Limits of Connoisseurship
Dr. Donald Stadtner, author of Ancient Pagan and Sacred Sites of Burma
Saturday, April 23, 4:00 p.m.

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