Virtual lecture from the Penn Museum's Artifacts in Action series on life-sized Luohan sculptures from China, viewable online.
The Penn Museum is hosting a virtual lecture on life-sized Luohan sculptures from China on Wednesday, Jan 6. It's part of Artifacts in Action, the museum's flagship virtual lecture series, which runs on first Wednesdays from October through June. The session is aimed at anyone with an interest in history, culture, art, and craft, and it's offered live online, so you can tune in from home rather than heading into the museum.
The draw here is the VXP—the Visual Experience Platform developed by the Barnes Foundation. It's what sets these lectures apart from a standard presentation: it lets you zoom in on painted surfaces, trace hand-sewn stitches, and rotate objects in 3D, pushing well beyond what a gallery label can tell you. For this one, that means getting a close look at the Luohan sculptures—life-sized figures of the disciples of the Buddha—in a way you wouldn't be able to if you were just standing in front of them in a gallery.
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If you're a museum member, you get free access to every lecture in the series, along with year-round admission to the museum. Otherwise, a single lecture is $15. The session is on Wednesday, Jan 6, as part of the museum's first-Wednesday schedule that runs from October through June.
