Upcoming Lecture:
The EFEO Center in Siem Reap will be hosting a lecture on Thursday 2 January 2025, at 5.30pm, titled ‘Khmer Art at the Art Institute of Chicago: Rediscovering a Southeast Asian Legacy’. Nicolas Revire, who teaches in Bangkok, is a senior researcher of the Art Institute of Chicago museum, and will host the free-to-attend presentation in English. He recently played a major role in a pilaster of Krishna being returned to Thailand and the temple of Prasat Phnom Rung, from the museum. The Art Institute of Chicago is the second-largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with around 35,000 objects in their Asian section. The majority of their Khmer artifacts were donated by the ultra-wealthy husband and wife duo, James and Marilynn Alsdorf, two examples are shown here, while four more were scooped up by the museum directly from the EFEO in Cambodia in 1924.Credit By :Andy Brouwer