Date: Fri 04-Sep-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: CAROLL

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Virginia Museum Names Asian Curator

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RICHMOND, VA. -- Dr Zhixin Sun has been named the E. Rhodes and Leona B.

Carpenter curator of East Asian art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,

director Katharine C. Lee has announced.

Sun will be responsible for the museum's collections for China, Japan and

Korea from ancient to modern times. He will also be responsible for the care

of the artwork, exhibitions, research, and cultivation of donors. He will

assume his duties in November.

Since 1993, Sun has been the Far Eastern Archive curator at Princeton

University where he is responsible for research, acquisitions, cataloguing and

maintenance of the archives. He is also the Asian art bibliographer at the

Marquand Art Library at Princeton, where he is responsible for the acquisition

and maintenance of materials about Asian art.

From 1989 to 1990, Sun worked as a curatorial assistant in the department of

Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he conducted

research in preparation for an exhibition on Chinese decorative art.

Although he focused on jade carving for his dissertation, he has also worked

on many other subjects in Chinese art. He has published his work on jades,

bronzes, metalwork, and the history of Chinese archaeology. His most recent

work is a chapter on Chinese calligraphy for the catalogue of a forthcoming

Chinese calligraphy exhibition at Princeton.