SYMPOSIUM TO EXPLORE CULTURAL CAPITAL EXCHANGE AND TRANSFER BY EMIGRE ARTISTS

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 16 -- "Artists in Exile: A Symposium on the Exchange and Transfer of Cultural Capital by Emigré Artists," will be offered at 5:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 25, in the Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Avenue, downtown Pittsburgh.

The event will feature a lecture on the "Culture of Exile" by Barbara McCloskey, associate professor of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. This lecture will examine current and past political upheavals internationally that have caused an unprecedented exodus of writers, artists, scientists and intellectuals to emigrate to other countries.

Following the main lecture, a panel discussion will be held that includes Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu, associate professor of East Asia Languages and Literature at Pitt; Xu Bing, conceptual artist in residence at the Wood Street Galleries; Kathy Linduff, professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Pitt, and Bing Hu, installation artist, New York City.

Participants are invited to an informal reception at Wood Street Galleries immediately after the program where they may view the works of Xu Bing and have the opportunity to meet the artist.

Presented by the Wood Street Galleries, Pitt's Asian Studies Program and the Department of The History of Art and Architecture, the symposium is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 412-648-7417.

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