BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen X-WR-TIMEZONE:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596378480 DTSTART:20230427T160000Z DTEND:20230427T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596381553 DTSTART:20230428T160000Z DTEND:20230428T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596383602 DTSTART:20230429T160000Z DTEND:20230429T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596386675 DTSTART:20230430T160000Z DTEND:20230430T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596388724 DTSTART:20230501T160000Z DTEND:20230501T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596389749 DTSTART:20230503T160000Z DTEND:20230503T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596391798 DTSTART:20230504T160000Z DTEND:20230504T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596394871 DTSTART:20230505T160000Z DTEND:20230505T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596397944 DTSTART:20230506T160000Z DTEND:20230506T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596399993 DTSTART:20230507T160000Z DTEND:20230507T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596402042 DTSTART:20230508T160000Z DTEND:20230508T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596404091 DTSTART:20230510T160000Z DTEND:20230510T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596407164 DTSTART:20230511T160000Z DTEND:20230511T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596409213 DTSTART:20230512T160000Z DTEND:20230512T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596411262 DTSTART:20230513T160000Z DTEND:20230513T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596413311 DTSTART:20230514T160000Z DTEND:20230514T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596415360 DTSTART:20230515T160000Z DTEND:20230515T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596418433 DTSTART:20230517T160000Z DTEND:20230517T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596420482 DTSTART:20230518T160000Z DTEND:20230518T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596422531 DTSTART:20230519T160000Z DTEND:20230519T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596424580 DTSTART:20230520T160000Z DTEND:20230520T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596426629 DTSTART:20230521T160000Z DTEND:20230521T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596428678 DTSTART:20230522T160000Z DTEND:20230522T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596430727 DTSTART:20230524T160000Z DTEND:20230524T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596432776 DTSTART:20230525T160000Z DTEND:20230525T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596434825 DTSTART:20230526T160000Z DTEND:20230526T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596436874 DTSTART:20230527T160000Z DTEND:20230527T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596439947 DTSTART:20230528T160000Z DTEND:20230528T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596441996 DTSTART:20230529T160000Z DTEND:20230529T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596445069 DTSTART:20230531T160000Z DTEND:20230531T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596447118 DTSTART:20230601T160000Z DTEND:20230601T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596449167 DTSTART:20230602T160000Z DTEND:20230602T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596451216 DTSTART:20230603T160000Z DTEND:20230603T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596453265 DTSTART:20230604T160000Z DTEND:20230604T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596455314 DTSTART:20230605T160000Z DTEND:20230605T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596458387 DTSTART:20230607T160000Z DTEND:20230607T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596460436 DTSTART:20230608T160000Z DTEND:20230608T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596462485 DTSTART:20230609T160000Z DTEND:20230609T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596464534 DTSTART:20230610T160000Z DTEND:20230610T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596466583 DTSTART:20230611T160000Z DTEND:20230611T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596468632 DTSTART:20230612T160000Z DTEND:20230612T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596470681 DTSTART:20230614T160000Z DTEND:20230614T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596472730 DTSTART:20230615T160000Z DTEND:20230615T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596474779 DTSTART:20230616T160000Z DTEND:20230616T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596477852 DTSTART:20230617T160000Z DTEND:20230617T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596479901 DTSTART:20230618T160000Z DTEND:20230618T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596481950 DTSTART:20230619T160000Z DTEND:20230619T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596485023 DTSTART:20230621T160000Z DTEND:20230621T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596487072 DTSTART:20230622T160000Z DTEND:20230622T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596489121 DTSTART:20230623T160000Z DTEND:20230623T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596491170 DTSTART:20230624T160000Z DTEND:20230624T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596494243 DTSTART:20230625T160000Z DTEND:20230625T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596496292 DTSTART:20230626T160000Z DTEND:20230626T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596498341 DTSTART:20230628T160000Z DTEND:20230628T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596501414 DTSTART:20230629T160000Z DTEND:20230629T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596503463 DTSTART:20230630T160000Z DTEND:20230630T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596506536 DTSTART:20230701T160000Z DTEND:20230701T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596508585 DTSTART:20230702T160000Z DTEND:20230702T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596510634 DTSTART:20230703T160000Z DTEND:20230703T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596512683 DTSTART:20230705T160000Z DTEND:20230705T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596514732 DTSTART:20230706T160000Z DTEND:20230706T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596517805 DTSTART:20230707T160000Z DTEND:20230707T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596519854 DTSTART:20230708T160000Z DTEND:20230708T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596522927 DTSTART:20230709T160000Z DTEND:20230709T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596526000 DTSTART:20230710T160000Z DTEND:20230710T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596530097 DTSTART:20230712T160000Z DTEND:20230712T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596533170 DTSTART:20230713T160000Z DTEND:20230713T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596535219 DTSTART:20230714T160000Z DTEND:20230714T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596538292 DTSTART:20230715T160000Z DTEND:20230715T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596540341 DTSTART:20230716T160000Z DTEND:20230716T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596542390 DTSTART:20230717T160000Z DTEND:20230717T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596544439 DTSTART:20230719T160000Z DTEND:20230719T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596547512 DTSTART:20230720T160000Z DTEND:20230720T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596549561 DTSTART:20230721T160000Z DTEND:20230721T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596551610 DTSTART:20230722T160000Z DTEND:20230722T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596553659 DTSTART:20230723T160000Z DTEND:20230723T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T083231Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43076596556732 DTSTART:20230724T160000Z DTEND:20230724T220000Z DESCRIPTION:“If you meet the Buddha on the road\, kill him.” So said a Zen master in an iconoclastic koan—a paradoxical statement to provoke a disciple into understanding\, in this case to warn against a doctrinal con ception of Buddhism. From its roots in ninth-century Japan to its existenc e as a modern global phenomenon\, Zen\, or rather our understanding of it\ , has dramatically transformed. “Killing the Buddha”: Reconstructing Z en investigates the dynamic shifts in Zen and Zen-adjacent art from the se venteenth century to the post–World War II period. Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s twentieth-century collection\, this installatio n addresses three themes: meditation\, movement\, and reinterpretation. Th ese categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historica l practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls\, the global spr ead of Zen concepts and its Western artistic interpretations\, and the mut ability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic m ovements\, including Gutai and Abstract Expressionism. Weaving together th e works of Zen monks and nuns—such as Sengai Gibon and Ōtagaki Rengetsu —with Zen-inspired works by Franz Kline\, Yoshihara Jiro\, Yoko Ono\, an d others—this exhibition illuminates the outsize yet understated role of Zen in the canon of modern art.\n\n“Killing the Buddha” is curated by Alexandra Crotty (AB ’23)\, Endie Hwang (AB ’24)\, and Jingxian Glori a Jin (AB ’23)\, the recipients of the 2022 Arthur Greenberg Undergradua te Curatorial Fellowship. \n\nThe Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatoria l Fellowship is a competitive program offered every three years that provi des upper-level undergraduate art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum’s Teaching Gallery. This year’s advisors are Kristina Kleutghen\, David W. Mesker Associate Professor in the Depart ment of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences\, and Meredith Malone \, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. GEO:38.647134;-90.302536 LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum SUMMARY:'Killing the Buddha': Reconstructing Zen URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/killing_the_buddha_reconst ructing_zen CATEGORIES:Exhibits END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR