''The Yale University Art Gallery announced this week that it would add a curatorial department devoted to Indo-Pacific art. The initiative is the brainchild of Thomas Jaffe, a Yale alumnus and collector who is giving the university about 500 examples of Southeast Asian tribal sculpture from his collection. He also recently bought for Yale a collection of Indonesian textiles put together by two experts in the field, Jeff Holmgren and Anita Spertus. In addition Hunter and Valerie Thompson, collectors from Toronto, have donated their collection of Javanese gold jewelry and sculpture to the university ...
"The new Indo-Pacific department will mean the creation of a curatorial position. Ruth Barnes, textile curator in the department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, will join the faculty, first as a consultant in April and full time in 2010. And a new gallery devoted to Indo-Pacific art is scheduled to open around 2012, once the three buildings that house all of the Yale University Art Gallery are renovated ... ."
Reblogged from the New York Times Inside Art column, By CAROL VOGEL, Published: March 12, 2009
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