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11

Chinamania

Freer Gallery of Art—through August 2011

“Chinamania: Whistler and the Victorian Craze for Blue-and-White” looks at the significance of Chinese export porcelain in Victorian England, where it was first an object of serious aesthetic inspiration for artists such as James McNeill Whistler but soon proliferated as an inspirational commodity.

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Posted: 11 August 2010
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.