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Mandala Lab
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Oct 01, 2021 to Oct 30, 2027
Detail: An Interactive Space for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning

The Mandala Lab, located on the Museum’s remodeled third floor, invites curiosity about our emotions. Consider how complex feelings show up in your everyday life and imagine how you might have the power to transform them.
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Gateway to Himalayan Art
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Jun 11, 2022 to Aug 03, 2025
Detail: Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces you to the main forms, concepts, meanings, and traditions of Himalayan art represented in the Rubin Museum collection.

The exhibition opens with a large map that highlights regions of the diverse Himalayan cultural sphere, including parts of present-day India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia. Gateway invites you to explore exemplary objects from the Museum’s collection, organized and presented in thematic sections: Figures and Symbols, Materials and Techniques, and Purpose and Function.

In addition to sculptures and paintings, objects such as a stupa, prayer wheel, and ritual implements demonstrate how patrons sought the accumulation of merit and hoped for wealth, long life, and spiritual gains, all to be fulfilled through the ritual use of these objects and commissioning works of art.

Among the featured installations are a display that explains the process of Nepalese lost-wax metal casting and a presentation of the stages of Tibetan hanging scroll painting (thangka). You will also encounter life-size reproductions of murals from Tibet’s Lukhang Temple, photographed by Thomas Laird and Clint Clemens.
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A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Jul 02, 2022 to Feb 17, 2025
Detail: More than a hundred remarkable objects from the Heber Bishop collection, including carvings of jade, the most esteemed stone in China, and many other hardstones, are on view in this focused presentation. The refined works represent the sophisticated art of Chinese gemstone carvers during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) as well as the highly accomplished skills of Mogul Indian (1526–1857) craftsmen, which provided an exotic inspiration to their Chinese counterparts. Also on view are a set of Chinese stone-working tools and illustrations of jade workshops, which will introduce the traditional method of working jade.
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Embracing Color: Enamel in Chinese Decorative Arts, 1300–1900
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Jul 02, 2022 to Jan 04, 2026
Detail: Enamel decoration is a significant element of Chinese decorative arts that has long been overlooked. This exhibition reveals the aesthetic, technical, and cultural achievement of Chinese enamel wares by demonstrating the transformative role of enamel during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. The first transformational moment occurred in the late 14th to 15th century, when the introduction of cloisonné enamel from the West, along with the development of porcelain with overglaze enamels, led to a shift away from a monochromatic palette to colorful works. The second transformation occurred in the late 17th to 18th century, when European enameling materials and techniques were brought to the Qing court and more subtle and varied color tones were developed on enamels applied over porcelain, metal, glass, and other mediums. In both moments, Chinese artists did not simply adopt or copy foreign techniques; they actively created new colors and styles that reflected their own taste. The more than 100 objects on view are drawn mainly from The Met collection.

Rotation 1: July 2, 2022–April 30, 2023
Rotation 2: May 20, 2023–March 24, 2024
Rotation 3: April 13, 2024–Feb 17, 2025
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Ganesha: Lord of New Beginnings
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Nov 19, 2022 to Jun 16, 2024
Detail: Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, is a Brahmanical (Hindu) diety known to clear a path to the gods and remove obstacles in everyday life. He is loved by his devotees (bhakti) for his many traits, including his insatiable appetite for sweet cakes and his role as a dispenser of magic, surprise, and laughter. However, Ganesha is also the lord of ganas (nature deities) and can take on a fearsome aspect in this guise.

The seventh- to twenty-first-century works in this exhibition trace his depiction across the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Featuring 24 works across sculptures, paintings, musical instruments, ritual implements, and photography, the exhibition emphasizes the vitality and exuberance of Ganesha as the bringer of new beginnings.
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Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings
Place: Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Feb 25, 2023 to Apr 28, 2024
Detail: Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings is the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Anyang, the capital of China’s Shang dynasty (occupied ca. 1250 BCE–ca. 1050 BCE). The source of China’s earliest surviving written records and the birthplace of Chinese archaeology, Anyang holds a special connection with the National Museum of Asian Art. In 1929, one year after Academia Sinica began archaeological work at the Bronze Age site, Li Chi assumed leadership of the excavations. At the time, he was also a staff member of the Freer Gallery of Art (1925–30). To promote archaeological practice in China, the Freer supported Li Chi and his first two seasons of work at Anyang. This collaboration, predicated on the advancement of scientific knowledge and the protection of cultural patrimony, marks an important chapter in the history of Sino-American relations.
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Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Apr 08, 2023 to Jul 14, 2024
Detail: Drawn largely from The Met’s renowned collection of Japanese art, this exhibition explores the twin themes of anxiety and hope, with a focus on the human stories in and around art and art making.

The exhibition begins with sacred images from early Japan that speak to concerns about death, dying, and the afterlife or that were created in response to other uncertainties, such as war and natural disaster. The presentation then proceeds chronologically, highlighting medieval Buddhist images of paradises and hells, Zen responses to life and death, depictions of war and pilgrimage, and the role of protective and hopeful images in everyday life. In the final galleries, the exhibition’s underlying themes are explored through a selection of modern woodblock prints, garments, and photographs.
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Jakhodo Today
Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
Date: Aug 24, 2023 to Aug 24, 2024
Detail: Jakhodo Today by Dave Young Kim (American, b. 1979) was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum for the Lawrence and Gorretti Lui Hyde Street Art Wall and installed in 2023. Kim’s composition draws inspiration from Korean folk paintings of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). The tiger and magpie pairing appears so frequently in Korean art that it comprises its own genre: jakhodo, paintings depicting tigers and magpies. As tigers were believed to expel evil spirits and magpies represented bearers of good news, paintings of this duo were sometimes placed on the front gates or doors of houses to bring good luck. In time, a political dimension also emerged: caricatured as a foolish oaf, the tiger became a symbol for the aristocratic yangban, while the dignified magpie represented the common people; the display of such imagery allowed villagers to quietly rebel against the ruling class. The mural’s saekdong (colorful stripes) are a decorative element often used to adorn clothes and traditionally thought to summon good fortune. Their five or seven colored stripes originated with the concept of eumyang-ohaeng, or yin and yang, and the five elements.

The tiger and magpie appear on several artworks in the museum’s collection of Korean art. Kim notes that many Korean Americans may have grown up with such imagery without being privy to the symbolism behind it. “It speaks of the familiarity of gleaned tradition without having knowledge of the deeper context or ancestral culture,” says Kim; “this is the immigrant story.”

Dave Young Kim is a Los Angeles-based artist with Bay Area roots. A co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective, Kim often uses the specific to address universal ideas of the human condition in his artwork. Fundamentally, he explains, his work speaks to the premise that “we are all looking for a place to call home.”
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Park Chan-kyong: Gathering
Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 28 - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Oct 07, 2023 to Oct 13, 2024
Detail: Seoul-based artist Park Chan-kyong has gained international recognition for his use of photography and film to examine the complex history of modern Korea. Park Chan-kyong: Gathering will be the first solo presentation of his work in a major US museum. The exhibition features a range of works that highlight his masterful use of the photographic medium to explore the enduring traces of tradition, history, and disaster in contemporary society. A multichannel video, Citizen’s Forest, anchors this exhibition of five recent works.

Park Chan-kyong: Gathering is the inaugural exhibition in the National Museum of Asian Art’s new modern and contemporary galleries, opening as the museum celebrates its centennial year and embarks on its next century. The galleries will become a space dedicated to engaging visitors in the myriad formats and media employed by artists to examine Asian society from the late twentieth century to today.
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Deities, Paragons, and Legends: Storytelling in Chinese Pictorial Arts
Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
Date: Oct 13, 2023 to Jul 08, 2024
Detail: This selection of paintings, textiles, and lacquerware illustrates well-known historical stories and love romances, tales of popular deities and heroic figures, and anecdotes of filial sons and celebrated scholars in Chinese art. For centuries, these fascinating images and their inscriptions were used to inform, entertain, and instruct various audiences, whether for religious persuasion, social engagement, cultural statement, or moral teaching. A showcase of these narrative or figural images in various mediums illuminates the deeply rooted visual cultural tradition that has existed in Chinese society across dynasties.
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Japanese Tastes in Chinese Ceramics
Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, USA
Date: Nov 17, 2023 to May 06, 2024
Detail: Exquisite Chinese and Chinese-influenced ceramics from the Kyoto National Museum demonstrate the importance of Chinese art to Japanese tea culture.
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Ruth Asawa: Untitled (S.272)
Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
Date: Nov 17, 2023 to Feb 24, 2025
Detail: A chance to intimately encounter one of Ruth Asawa’s most celebrated works.
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Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea
Place: Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Dec 09, 2023 to Dec 09, 2026
Detail: Japan’s rich history of ceramic artistry developed in large part alongside the culture of drinking tea. The practice of preparing and serving matcha, powdered green tea, was called chanoyu (literally, “hot water for tea”) and gained popularity in the sixteenth century. Japanese tea practitioners initially used Chinese and Korean antique ceramics as tea bowls but began using newly made Japanese tea bowls, such as Raku ware, in the sixteenth century. Raku ware shares its name with the family that has made these ceramics in Kyoto since the sixteenth century. Unlike most tea bowls, Raku ceramics are built by hand—a process described as “knotting clay”—as opposed to using a wheel. Sixteenth-century potters are said to have collaborated closely with their tea-practitioner patrons to create distinctive vessels best-suited for tea drinking.

Over the next four centuries, a network of Japanese potters incorporated Raku techniques into their practice; these techniques were later adopted in the 1950s by the American studio pottery movement. Raku wares are now internationally recognized as a Japanese ceramic style and continue to inspire artistic creativity worldwide. Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea explores these distinctive, hand-molded ceramics and their close relationship to Japanese tea culture. This exhibition features tea bowls, water containers, and other vessels in the museum’s permanent collection that demonstrate the glazes and forms unique to Raku ware.
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Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting
Place: Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., California, USA
Date: Dec 17, 2023 to Aug 04, 2024
Detail: The act of coming together to partake of a meal is a practice shared by all cultures. Food defines us—we are what we eat. Dining with the Sultan is the first exhibition to present Islamic art in the context of its associated culinary traditions. It will include some 250 works of art related to the sourcing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food, from 30 public and private collections in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East—objects of undisputed quality and appeal, viewed through the universal lens of fine dining. The exhibition will stimulate not only the eyes but also the appetite, reminding visitors of the communal pleasure of food—both its taste and its presentation. It will provide much-needed information on the enormous class of luxury objects that may be broadly defined as tableware and demonstrate how gustatory discernment was a fundamental activity at the great Islamic courts.
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Japanese Ink Paintings
Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
Date: Dec 21, 2023 to May 06, 2024
Detail: Highlights from the collection illustrate how Japanese artists from the 15th to the early 17th century engaged with Chinese ink painting styles.
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Into View: New Voices, New Stories
Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
Date: Jan 19, 2024 to Oct 17, 2024
Detail: Recently acquired work by fourteen contemporary artists whose alternative narratives of mythology, history, and identity speak to a radically reimagined future.
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Jian Yoo Iridescent Hue
Place: The Korea Society - New York, 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, USA
Date: Jan 25, 2024 to Apr 18, 2024
Detail: Working in the precise and fine medium of mother of pearl — jagae in Korean – Jian Yoo’s iridescent art bridges historical and contemporary, nature and artificial, arts and crafts. Made of thousands of mother-of-pearl pieces layered in intricate patterns, Yoo’s art respectfully acknowledges the long tradition of master craft workers while reinventing the genre with distinctively modern sensibilities.
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Korean Treasures from the Chester and Cameron Chang Collection
Place: Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., USA
Date: Feb 25, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024
Detail: Korean Treasures presents 35 artworks recently donated to LACMA by Drs. Chester and Cameron C. Chang (M.D.), selected from the largest gift of Korean art in the museum’s history. Chester Chang (Chang Jung Ki) was born in Seoul in 1939 and first moved to the United States as a child with his family in 1949, when his father, Chang Chi Whan, was appointed General Secretary to the first Consul General of Korea in Los Angeles. The bulk of the Chang family collection has been intact for over a century. This introductory exhibition presents traditional Korean paintings, calligraphic folding screens, mid-20th century oil paintings from both North and South Korea, and ceramics of the Goryeo (918–1392) and Joseon (1392–1897) dynasties.
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Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork
Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 22 - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Mar 02, 2024 to Jan 02, 2026
Detail: Metalworking is at once powerful and delicate. Immense labor and heat are required to extract pure metals from ore to form alloys that are then made into flat metal sheets. The technique of hammering introduces powerful blows to create a shape, yet it can also soften and refine metal through the gentle warmth of rhythmic strikes. Traditional Japanese metalworking evolved to produce functional items, such as vessels and tools. Hammering was primarily applied to create water containers for making tea, gongs for both religious and secular use, bells, swords, and armor. Over time, the development of alloys, patination methods, and the infusion of foreign decorative techniques, such as chasing and inlay, expanded the visual and aesthetic potential of hammered metalwork.

Contemporary Japanese metalworking breathes life into traditional methods that have been passed down and practiced over generations. The artists featured in Striking Objects create masterpieces that combine tradition with creativity and innovation. The exhibition highlights works from the collection of Shirley Z. Johnson (1940–2021), distinguished lawyer, philanthropist, and former board member of the National Museum of Asian Art. Her passion for contemporary Japanese metalwork and her visionary gift have made the National Museum of Asian Art home to the largest collection of such works in the United States.
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Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Mar 15, 2024 to Oct 06, 2024
Detail: Contemplate and celebrate what Himalayan art means now with a Museum-wide exhibition of artworks by over 30 contemporary artists, many from the Himalayan region and diaspora and others inspired by Himalayan art and cultures.
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Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980
Place: Freer Gallery of Art | Galleries 5, 6, 6a, 7, 8 - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Mar 16, 2024 to Sep 15, 2024
Detail: During the Edo period (1603–1868), feudal Japan was largely closed off from the outside world. For three hundred years, a loose movement of Japanese artists, often referred to as literati, turned to neighboring China—variably a source for emulation and a source of rivalry—for inspiration. Through painting and calligraphy, they created immersive environments in which artists and viewers alike could mentally withdraw from worldly affairs. As disparate and diverse as the literati movement was, its members were united by a common language that embraced diverse notions of “China”—a place both familiar and foreign, as much imagined as it was known. Throughout a period of modernization during the Meiji era (1868–1912) and after, when all facets of life in Japan were radically changing, China’s historic role in helping shape the fabric of Japanese history and culture remained a touchstone for Japanese artists, even in the context of imperialism and war.

Imagined Neighbors presents Japanese artworks from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, given to the National Museum of Asian Art between 2018 and 2022. The Cowles Collection is arguably the largest and most comprehensive group of Japanese literati works outside of Japan. The paintings and calligraphy in this exhibition fuse reality with imagination and remain important to understanding the continuing, complex engagement of Japanese artists with China, to them both a real and an imagined place.
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Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints
Place: Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Mar 23, 2024 to Oct 06, 2024
Detail: Throughout Japanese cultural history, the boundary between the real world and the world of supernatural beings has been remarkably porous. Certain sites, states of mind, or periods in the lunar cycle made humans particularly vulnerable to ghostly intervention. The Edo period (1603–1868) was a crucial stage in the development and solidification of ideas about the supernatural. Many of the beliefs that gained currency at this time are still held as conventional wisdom in Japan today.

Supernatural entities came to life especially during noh and kabuki theater performances. Explore—if you dare—the roles that ghosts and spirits play in the retelling of Japanese legends and real events. Staging the Supernatural brings together a collection of vibrant, colorful woodblock prints and illustrated books depicting the specters that haunt these two theatrical traditions.
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Do Ho Suh: Public Figures
Place: National Museum of Asian Art | Freer Plaza - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Apr 27, 2024 to Apr 29, 2029
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Japan: Myths to Manga
Place: Young V&A - London, Cambridge Heath Road, United Kingdom
Date: Apr 14, 2024 to Sep 08, 2024
Detail: Take an exciting and atmospheric trip through Japan – and explore how landscape and folklore have influenced Japanese art, technology and design.
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Hazara dress and embroidery from Afghanistan
Place: V&A South Kensington - London, Cromwell Road, United Kingdom
Date: Apr 14, 2024 to Apr 14, 2025
Detail: Afghanistan has always been home to many peoples and cultures. The Hazara people speak Hazaragi, a language related to Persian, and make up the third largest ethnic group in the country. In the past, they lived in many areas of Afghanistan. But today, many have been displaced and they continue to face persecution. In the face of hostility, embroidery and dress help to maintain a sense of communal identity for the Hazara people, both in Afghanistan and among diaspora communities. The vibrant examples in this display reveal the technical and design skills of the Hazara dressmakers and embroiderers.
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Textile Masters to the World: The global desire for Indian cloth
Place: Asian Civilisations Museum - Singapore, 1 Empress Pl, Singapore 179555, Singapore
Date: Mar 24, 2023 to Jan 24, 2025
Detail: From 24 March 2023
Daily, 10am - 7pm | Fridays, 10am - 9pm
Asian Civilisations Museum, Level 3, Fashion and Textiles Gallery

The Asian Civilisations Museum presents Textile Masters to the World: The global desire for Indian cloth with a selection of exquisite garments and textiles at its Fashion and Textiles Gallery. Featuring 27 pieces from the National Collection and loans, the exhibition spotlights the historic global impact of textile production in India, and its role as evidence of trade and cultural exchange between India and regions such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe from the fourteenth to nineteenth century. From fashion and furnishing, to gift exchange and heirlooms, visitors can marvel at the artistry and craftsmanship of early textile masters, and discover how Indian textiles influenced local designs, materials and fashions wherever they were traded.
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Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer
Place: National Gallery Singapore - Singapore, Singapore
Date: Apr 05, 2024 to Sep 29, 2024
Detail: 5 April 2024 - 29 September 2024
City Hall Wing, Level B1, Ngee Ann Kongsi Concourse Gallery, National Gallery Singapore
Admission is Free

Step into the fusion of art and science at National Gallery Singapore’s Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer, the first of four major exhibitions at the Gallery in 2024, spotlighting Singaporean artists. From 5 April 2024 to 29 September 2024, this groundbreaking showcase featuring over 40 artworks from Cheong Soo Pieng’s artistic career marks Southeast Asia’s first exhibition that delves so thoroughly into the artist’s practice and material research.

Free for all, Layer by Layer invites visitors of all ages to embark on an immersive voyage through Cheong’s creative realm with interactive stations that seek to engage visitors through touch, play, and investigation. Engage with Cheong’s innovative techniques by visiting tactile stations that allow visitors to explore the textures of his artworks. Play with a 3D-printed puzzle, and assume the role of a researcher by conducting investigations with a sliding stereo microscope. Through these fun and engaging hands-on activities, visitors will learn more about what goes into creating fundamental elements of a painting and catch a glimpse into the world of art conservation through material analysis techniques such as infrared photography and x-ray scanning.

For more information on the exhibition, please visit: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/see-do/programme-detail/945986590/cheong-soo-pieng-layer-by-layer

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Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers from the Chris Hall Collection
Place: Peranakan Museum - Singapore, 39 Armenian St, Singapore
Date: Apr 19, 2024 to Sep 29, 2024
Detail: Daily, 10am–7pm | Fridays, 10am–9pm
Peranakan Museum
$6 for Singaporeans and Permanent Residents; $16 for Foreigners

Why and how do we give gifts? The act of gifting is deeply ingrained and takes many forms across histories and cultures. In Japan, the practice of formally presenting gifts with silk covers called fukusa began in the Edo period (1603–1868). These covers were draped or folded over gifts for a variety of occasions, from seasonal festivities to important personal events, and are some of the finest examples of Japanese textile artistry.

Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers from the Chris Hall Collection celebrates a major gift of Japanese art from the renowned collector Chris Hall. With over 80 fukusa, kimonos, and related textiles displayed, the exhibition explores craft; trade and exchange between Japan, China, and the West; and the act of gifting across cultures, as seen through a presentation of Peranakan textiles from the National Collection. Visitors are invited to draw connections between gift customs of the past and present through an interactive digital programme, and to participate in hands-on workshops, performances, and tours.

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From Here and Beyond, Part I
Place: Idemitsu Museum of Arts - Tokyo, 9th Floor, Teigeki Bldg., 3-1-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
Date: Apr 23, 2024 to May 19, 2024
Detail: At the museum inaugural exhibition in 1966, the gallery rooms showcased major works of Chinese ceramics and bronze, ko-garatsu (old ware from the Karatsu region), and Zen master Sengai’s paintings. Today, fifty-eight years since its public opening, all the rooms remain with their original structure and style. To begin the museum’s final year in its current Teigeki building, this first exhibition revisits the museum inaugural exhibition and features masterpieces that continue to represent the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts.
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From Here and Beyond, Part II
Place: Idemitsu Museum of Arts - Tokyo, 9th Floor, Teigeki Bldg., 3-1-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
Date: Jun 01, 2024 to Jul 07, 2024
Detail: The first museum director Idemitsu Sazo (1885-1981) was known for building close relations with artists from his period and their creative activities. Itaya Hazan (1872-1963) and Kosugi Hōan (1881-1964) are representative artists whom Sazo had engaged with. This exhibition presents Hazan’s ceramics with the elegant, luminous design and Hōan’s works that reflect the “Eastern ideal” through oil and Japanese painting, alongside works by Sazo’s contemporaries Georges Rouault (1871-1958) and Sam Francis (1923-94).
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From Here and Beyond, Part III
Place: Idemitsu Museum of Arts - Tokyo, 9th Floor, Teigeki Bldg., 3-1-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
Date: Jul 20, 2024 to Aug 25, 2024
Detail: It was in 1910 that Idemitsu Sazo (1885-1981) discovered the beauty of Chinese ceramics during his corporate expansion in Northeastern China. The fondness he nurtured toward such works eventually inspired him to collect precious ceramics and crafts. Under the guidance of internationally known researchers Koyama Fujio (1900-75) and Mikami Tsugio (1907-87), Sazo further aspired to enrich his collection. We hope you enjoy the best of the arts and crafts works from the museum collection including Chinese, Japanese and East Asian ceramics as well as lacquer and bronze ware.
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From Here and Beyond, Part IV
Place: Idemitsu Museum of Arts - Tokyo, 9th Floor, Teigeki Bldg., 3-1-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
Date: Sep 07, 2024 to Oct 20, 2024
Detail: This year marks around the 120th year since Idemitsu Sazo (1885-1981) first obtained Zen master Sengai’s work. Since the museum’s opening until today, the collection underwent processes of re-evaluation and growth, housing a wealth of works that cover histories of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy and painting. This exhibition showcases masterpieces of yamato-e (Japanese style painting), butsu-ga (Buddhist painting), suiboku-ga (ink painting), bunjin-ga (literati paintings), ukiyo-e, rimpa, and calligraphy while retracing the museum’s research and collecting practices.
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Festival of Joy
Place: Klyde Warren Park - Dallas, 2012 Woodall Rodgers Fwy, Texas, USA
Date: Apr 27, 2024
Detail: Kick off spring with a colorful celebration of spirituality and Indian culture at the fifth annual Festival of Joy. The festival will kick off with a parade procession and culminate with a live headline stage performance from 7 p.m. on.

Presented by acclaimed East Dallas restaurant Kalachandji’s, Festival of Joy brings together thousands of families, young adults and dignitaries for a fun-filled day of bright colors, beautiful flowers and a free vegetarian feast, along with riveting music, dance, and interactive holistic living and cultural exhibits. A variety of ethnic vegetarian foods will also be available for purchase.

New this year is an evening stage performance by popular Indian artist Gaura Vani, an internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist fluent in music, film and the visual arts. Vani performs a genre of traditional Indian kirtan music with Western elements such as 12-string guitar, gospel choruses and hip-hop rhythms.

The Festival of Joy, also celebrated as Ratha Yatra or Festival of Chariots, has its roots in the ancient Indian bhakti tradition. It has been observed annually for more than 3,000 years in the holy city of Jagannatha Puri in the South Indian state of Orissa, making it the world’s longest-running street festival. It is now held in major city centers worldwide, including New York City’s Fifth Avenue and London’s Piccadilly Circus.

The festival will start at 11 a.m. with a welcome ceremony at Klyde Warren Park, followed by a parade at 11:30 a.m. through the Dallas Arts District and back to the park at 1:30 p.m. Hundreds of festivalgoers, pilgrims and faith leaders will pull the colorful chariot carrying the sacred deities of Jagannatha, Subhadra and Balarama along the route. Hundreds more will dance, sing sacred mantras and play traditional musical instruments. Devotees believe that if they get the opportunity to pull the ropes of the giant chariot carrying Lord Krishna, known as Jagannatha or the Lord of the Universe, they can obtain eternal service to the Lord in the spiritual world.

After the procession returns to Klyde Warren Park, families and guests can enjoy a free vegetarian feast and live stage entertainment, sample regional Indian street food favorites, visit an ethnic clothing bazaar, and explore holistic living exhibits revealing the spiritual heart of India, featuring Ayurveda, yoga, traditional crafts, mehndi, try-a-sari, ask-a-monk, vegetarian cooking and more.

At 7 p.m., Vani will be featured in a concert performance on the main stage with kirtan (musical mantra meditation) and bharat-natyam (classical Indian dance).

Although the free feast and some activities will close at 5 p.m., the Indian street food concessions will remain open during the evening concert.

Festivalgoers who would like to experience more can get info on the Kalachandji Konnect program of daily philosophy classes and kirtan, and continuing education programs in meditation, yoga, Ayurveda and vegetarian cooking.

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Civilisations Brussels Art Fair
Place: Sablon area - Brussels, Belgium
Date: Jun 05, 2024 to Jun 09, 2024
Detail: Civilisations Brussels Art Fair presents the finest Tribal, Asian, & Oriental art, focusing on the ever-evolving eclectic taste of international clients and collectors.

As a new cultural beacon in the heart of Europe, the organisation strives to bring new synergies to the art world in Brussels with numerous distinguished galleries opening their doors in the lively Sablon district.
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Lui Shou-Kwan
Place: Alisan Fine Arts - New York, 120 East 65th Street, USA
Date: Feb 29, 2024 to Apr 27, 2024
Detail: ASIA WEEK OPENING RECEPTION
March 14, 2024, 5-8pm
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A Discovery of Dragons
Place: Kaikodo LLC - The Big Island, 27-760 Old Onomea Road, Hawaii, USA
Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Apr 18, 2024
Detail: Our upcoming Asia Week New York online exhibition will showcase a Chinese Cizhou-ware Ceramic Pillow with Double-phoenix Décor. This stoneware pillow is a breathtaking example of a technique for producing ceramic decoration perfected by Cizhou potters during the 11th century of the Song dynasty in northern China. The remarkable precision apparent in the production of the rare double-phoenix design on the headrest of the pillow and the density and intricate placement of the stamped rings forming the ground are exemplary, producing an effect that is as close to refined metalware decoration as a potter could get.
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Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Painting
Place: Shibunkaku - New York, 39 East 78th Street, Suite 401, USA
Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Apr 19, 2024
Detail: We are pleased to present Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Painting for this season’s Asia Week New York. The exhibit will focus on contemporary paintings by the artist Sekine Yoshio, who participated in the founding of the Gutai Art Association. He left Gutai in 1959 and pursued the creation of abstract canvases using real-life objects as motifs which attracted attention to his unique style, a “hybrid of figurative and abstract art,” We look forward to welcoming you to our exhibit at Joan B Mirviss LTD, 39 East 78th Street in New York.
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Eternal Partnership: Japanese Ceramics in Blue & White
Place: Joan B Mirviss LTD - New York, 39 East 78th Street, USA
Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Apr 19, 2024
Detail: Special Asia Week Hours: Saturday March 16 11am-5pm and Sunday, March 17 12-5pm

The most visually striking color combination for centuries, blue and white has been paired effectively in all types of Japanese art, but most prominently and successfully in its ceramics. For Asia Week New York 2024, we present the enduring legacy of this timeless aesthetic, and its dynamic expressions in Japanese contemporary clay, through the lens of the esteemed Kyoto-based Kondō family. Across multiple generations, their mastery of sometsuke (cobalt blue-and-white porcelain) culminates in the work of our celebrated gallery artist, Kondō Takahiro, who broke free of his forefathers’ traditions with his patented gintekisai “silver mist” overglaze on dramatic sculptural work.

Eternal Partnership: Japanese Ceramics in Blue & White includes masterful work by twenty additional Japanese ceramic artists applying blue and/or white across a wide range of innovative forms and styles.
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Asian Arts / 5000 Years
Place: Sotheby's - Paris, 76, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, France
Date: Apr 23, 2024
Detail: Embracing 5000 years of Asian art history, this season’s ‘Asian Art / 5000 Years’ sale features a wide variety of ceramics, sculptures and jade spanning the length and breadth of Asia. A notable highlight of the sale is a number of Chinese artefacts from the estate of Father Émile Ducarme (杜嘉猷) including an exceptionally rare illuminated Ming dynasty manuscript, the Beidoujing 北斗經, commissioned by the wife of the Jiajing Emperor in 1542; two ink rubbings with extracts from the ‘Qianlong Stone Classics’ stele; and a number of personal effects including scholar artefacts and jades.

Born in Raismes on 2 April 1884, Ducarme was among a small group of seminary students sent to China in 1903. Ordained in Jiaxing in April 1905, Father Ducarme went on to serve as the first priest of Changxindian, the director of the entire Nantang district of Beijing and, finally, as curé of the Église Saint-Michel which stands to this day in the former French Legation.
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Arts of the Islamic World and India
Place: Sotheby's - London, 34-35 New Bond Street, United Kingdom
Date: Apr 24, 2024
Detail: Our Spring auction of Islamic Art epitomises the rich cultural heritage and artistic brilliance of civilisations that lived and coexisted under the principles of Islam. This meticulously curated selection includes a diversity of artworks spanning a large range of mediums and epochs. Each is a testament to the unparalleled craftsmanship and profound aesthetic sensibilities that have defined Islamic art through the ages.
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Modern & Contemporary Middle East
Place: Sotheby's - London, 34-35 New Bond Street, United Kingdom
Date: Apr 25, 2024
Detail: This April, Sotheby's London is thrilled to present its bi-annual Modern & Contemporary Middle East sale opening April 11th and closing April 25th. This tightly curated selection will include some of the most culturally significant Artists from the regions encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Turkey, and North Africa, as well as sought after works by emerging talents.
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Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets
Place: Christie's - London, 8 King Street St. James 's, United Kingdom
Date: Apr 25, 2024
Detail: This April, Christie’s London will present the live auction Art of the Islamic and Indian Words including Rugs and Carpets. Leading the sale is an extensively illustrated and illuminated copy of the Khamsas of both Nizami and Dihlavi, a splendid example of 17th century Safavid manuscript production. Alongside this are a number of important private collections including Gardens of Silk, which led by an exceptional Safavid figural velvet panel. Further highlights include early Iranian ceramics from a Private American Collection as well as Persian and Indian paintings from the Collection of Charles and Regina Slatkin which includes a rare work by the Bukhara artist Mahmud Muzahhib.
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Art d'Asie
Place: Christie's - Paris, 9 Avenue Matignon, France
Date: Jun 13, 2024
Detail: Auction times
13 Jun 10:30 AM (CEST)

Viewing
7 Jun 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
8 Jun 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
9 Jun 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
10 Jun 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
11 Jun 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
12 Jun 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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The Ten Perfections - Qing Imperial Ceramics from the Wang Xing Lou Collection
Place: Christie's - No. 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hall 3D-3G, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Date: May 30, 2024
Detail: Christie's Hong Kong Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Department is proud to announce ‘The Ten Perfections - Qing Imperial Ceramics from the Wang Xing Lou Collection’, a dedicated sale featuring 10 exceptional Imperial porcelain masterpieces. These museum-quality pieces were created during the Yongzheng (1723-1735) and Qianlong (1736-1795) reigns, representing over 70 years of imperial ceramic production. The collector and Christie's have meticulously chosen these pieces for their remarkable artistic quality and pristine condition. This carefully curated selection showcases the technical mastery and adherence to the timeless tradition of Chinese ceramics, highlighting the innovative motifs and techniques popular during that era.
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