<div class="gmail_quote"><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Announcing New Curator of Indo-Pacific Art at Yale<br>Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:46:18 -0500<br>From: Southeast Asian Studies <<a href="mailto:seas@yale.edu">seas@yale.edu</a>><br>
Reply-To: <<a href="mailto:seas@yale.edu">seas@yale.edu</a>><br>Organisation: Southeast Asian Studies<br>To: Southeast Asian Studies <<a href="mailto:seas@yale.edu">seas@yale.edu</a>><br><br><br><br>
*Dr. **Ruth Barnes, *currently Textiles Curator at the Ashmolean Museum,<br>Oxford, has accepted the invitation to join the staff of the Yale<br>University Art Gallery as the new* Curator of Indo-Pacific Art. *<br><br>The collection of Pacific Arts for which this department will be<br>
established is a new promised gift from one of the world's most renowned<br>private collectors of this area. It consists of indigenous sculpture,<br>masks, and architectural ornaments primarily from the islands of<br>
Southeast Asia as well as textiles from Indonesia.<br><br>Dr. Barnes will begin her appointment in the fall of 2009, and will have<br>the opportunity to create a department under the aegis of the department<br>of Asian art and to design and mount a permanent installation in a large<br>
designated gallery, as a part of the Art Gallery's ambitious project of<br>renovation and expansion.<br><br>For information on Dr. Barnes' research and background, you can visit<br>her current web site at the University of Oxford:<br>
<a href="http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/iw/rbarnes.html" target="_blank">http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/iw/rbarnes.html</a><br><<a href="http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/iw/rbarnes.html%20%20" target="_blank">http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/iw/rbarnes.html%20%20</a>><br>
<br>Professor Joseph Errington <mailto:<a href="mailto:j.errington@yale.edu">j.errington@yale.edu</a>> represented the<br>Southeast Asia Studies Council on the Search Committee for this<br>position, and can answer any questions regarding the appointment and the<br>
gift collection.<br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><br>Council on Southeast Asia Studies<br><br>The MacMillan Center<br><a href="http://www.yale.edu/seas" target="_blank">www.yale.edu/seas</a> <<a href="http://www.yale.edu/seas" target="_blank">http://www.yale.edu/seas</a>><br>
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