{"id":3429,"date":"2014-05-13T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T16:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2014-05-13T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T16:28:50","slug":"halle-oneal-to-present-lecture-at-cheekwood-on-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2014\/05\/halle-oneal-to-present-lecture-at-cheekwood-on-may-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle O&#8217;Neal to Present Lecture at Cheekwood on May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/2014\/05\/13\/halle-oneal-to-present-lecture-at-cheekwood-on-may-15\/bamboo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2014\/05\/bamboo.jpg\" alt=\"bamboo\" width=\"220\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3435\" \/><\/a>Celebrated for its flexibility and strength, the perennial bamboo has enjoyed diverse lives in Japanese art and culture&#8212;from delectable edibles and delicately carved tea utensils to bold ink splashes and conceptual sculptures. <\/p>\n<p>Hallie O&#8217;Neal, Mellon Assistant Professor of History of Art, will explore these various manifestations, many of which balance on the edge of function and art, in a lecture at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art on Thursday, May 15, at noon. Her lecture, entitled &#8220;Bending Blades of Grass: Bamboo in Japanese Art and Culture,&#8221; is part of the Lunch and Lecture series and will be held in the Potter Room of Botanic Hall (also known as the Visitor Center). <\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neal&#8217;s lecture is coordinated with a current exhibit at Cheekwood, &#8220;Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art,&#8221; that explores the rising awareness of bamboo as an innovative art form.<\/p>\n<p>*Uematsu Chikuyu, <em>Sound of Wind<\/em>, 1991. Bamboo (madake), rattan, lacquer.<br \/>\nPhoto \u00a9 Susan Einstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated for its flexibility and strength, the perennial bamboo has enjoyed diverse lives in Japanese art and culture&#8212;from delectable edibles and delicately carved tea utensils to bold ink splashes and conceptual sculptures. Hallie O&#8217;Neal, Mellon Assistant Professor of History of Art, will explore these various manifestations, many of which balance on the edge of function&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hart","category-hart-in-nashville","category-lectures","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}