Followed by a conversation with director Eros Zhao and Freer|Sackler curators Stephen Allee and Jan Stuart
A Taiwanese scholar, collector, artist, and educator, Fu Shen is one of the most distinguished traditional connoisseurs of Chinese painting—and one of the last practitioners of this demanding discipline. Directed by his final pupil, this documentary explores Fu’s extraordinary career, including his time as a curator here at the Freer|Sackler from 1979 to 1994. A conversation with director Eros Zhao and F|S curators Stephen Allee and Jan Stuart, who worked with Fu while he was here, follows the screening. (Dir.: Eros Zhao, United States/Taiwan, 2018, 65 min., DCP, Mandarin and English with English subtitles)