Art historian to discuss garden rocks of China

Art historian Philip K. Hu will give a lecture titled "No Stone Left Unturned: Mi Wanzhong (1570-1628) and the Culture of Rocks in Late Ming China" on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 1:35 p.m. in Arts 215 at Union College.

The talk, free and open to the public, is sponsored by Union's Department of Visual Arts and the East Asian Studies program.

Hu, formerly a research fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and now at the Art Department at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., will discuss the fascination that collector, painter, and tastemaker Mi Wanzhong held for the twisted and perforated garden rocks of China.