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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old Colorful Korea: The Lea R. Sneider Collection
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Jan 01, 2025 to Feb 16, 2026
Detail: Over the course of forty years, Lea R. Sneider (1925–2020) formed a significant collection of Korean art that challenged established norms. While appreciating literati art, she was particularly drawn to lively and colorful forms connected to everyday life, resulting in a diverse collection that illustrates Korea’s vibrant material culture. This exhibition features a substantial gift and loans from the Lea R. Sneider Collection, generously provided by her children. Through approximately 100 pieces from the fifth century to the present, including paintings, ceramics, furniture, textiles, and funerary and ritual objects, the exhibition highlights the pervasiveness of auspicious symbolism and the unpretentious dynamism in Korean art. Sneider has said that the works reflect the vitality and warmth of the people who engaged with them, a sentiment that her collection, with its emphasis on cultural and everyday relevance, underscores.
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Old Ai Weiwei: Water Lilies
Place: Seattle Asian Art Museum - Seattle, 1400 East Prospect Street, USA
Date: Mar 19, 2025 to Mar 15, 2026
Detail: Nearly 50 feet in length and made from 650,000 LEGO blocks, Ai Weiwei’s Water Lilies (2022) is the artist’s largest and most ambitious LEGO work to date. This reinterpretation of Claude Monet’s iconic triptych from the Museum of Modern Art in New York offers an equally immersive experience, merging the lush beauty of Monet’s water lilies with Ai’s personal history.

Visitors can experience this work—displayed in one long panel on a single wall—up close in an intimate gallery at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. This is the first time this work has been shown in the US; it debuted in 2023 at the Berlin art gallery neugerriemschneider.

The piece has a connection with the Seattle Art Museum’s history. An actual Monet Water Lilies work was loaned to the museum in 1956 by Walter P. Chrysler Jr., who purchased it from the Monet estate and toured it around the United States. The painting was displayed in the Fuller Garden Court of the Seattle Asian Art Museum, the original home of the Seattle Art Museum
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Old Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped
Place: Freer Gallery of Art | Gallery 8 - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Apr 12, 2025 to Apr 26, 2026
Detail: Japanese tea practice, chanoyu, centers on the appreciation of tea utensils used to prepare and consume powdered green tea, called matcha. Chanoyu elevates these utensils, which include ceramic tea caddies, tea bowls, and hanging scrolls of calligraphy, into objects of aesthetic admiration. The objects in this exhibition accumulated significance over generations through their continued use and display at tea gatherings. Tea practitioners have also cherished the accompanying boxes, documents, and textiles that demonstrate an object’s accrued layers of historical and cultural meaning.

Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped presents eleven historic tea utensils and accessories, including ceramics, hanging scrolls, boxes, and wrapping cloths. Finding their way from China, Korea, and South Asia into Japanese tea rooms, these objects tell a story of trade and exchange across Asia. This exhibition unveils how chanoyu brought together these different cultural elements through networks of tea practitioners.
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Old Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia
Place: LACMA, Resnick Pavilion - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., USA
Date: May 11, 2025 to Jul 12, 2026
Detail: Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia presents an international survey of Buddhism and Buddhist art, beginning with the religion’s origins in India and following its spread through mainland and island Southeast Asia (Myanmar [Burma], Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia), the Himalayas (Kashmir, Nepal, and Tibet), and East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan). Incorporating 180 masterpieces of pan-Asian Buddhist art, the exhibition introduces key concepts of Buddhist thought and practice viewed through the prism of rare and extraordinarily beautiful Buddhist sculptures, paintings, and ritual objects.
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Old Risham Syed: Destiny Fractured
Place: The Newark Museum - Newarj, 49 Washington St., New Jersey, USA
Date: May 16, 2025 to Mar 07, 2027
Detail: The sixth artist to develop an exhibition of works based on The Newark Museum of Art’s collection, Risham Syed addresses colonialism, capitalism, and climate change.

Some of the inspirational artworks from the NMOA collection include American landscapes, Chinese scroll paintings, and the period rooms in The Ballantine House. The artist has created new artworks for the exhibition that will be presented alongside her previous installations and NMOA collection objects in the Global Contemporary galleries as well as in the landscape gallery in Seeing America. Syed has produced art in a variety of mediums, including videos, embroidered silk panels, installations with paintings and objects, and printed textiles.
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Old Yoshida Hiroshi: Journeys through Light
Place: The Ringling - Sarasota, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Florida, USA
Date: Jun 21, 2025 to Jan 11, 2026
Detail: Renowned for his evocative renderings of light, mist, and glowing colour, visionary artist Yoshida Hiroshi (Japanese, 1876–1950) gathered his subject matter from his travels across the Americas, Europe, north Africa, and Asia. Back in his studio, he translated his sketches into the medium of polychrome woodblock printing — an artform perfected over 200 years of Japanese history.

Drawing from The Ringling’s extensive holdings and local private collections, this exhibition focuses on Yoshida’s betsu-zuri or “separate printings,” referring to multiple color versions of single designs. Yoshida, or an artisan working under his close supervision, would print a single design using the same set of wooden printing blocks in different palettes of color and textures to suggest varying times of the day, climactic conditions, and emotional states. Further variation may result from the colorants being prepared, applied, and printed by hand, the paper, sizing treatments, moisture levels, and wear sustained by the blocks. Although a single design may be produced in the hundreds, each impression is unique.

Highlights of the exhibition include seven versions of Acropolis (1925) depicting Athens’s ancient citadel in daylight and under the night sky. Also on view are rare trial printings bearing Yoshida’s annotations, a preparatory drawing, and a process set of the print Lugano that demonstrates over 40 steps required to complete this single design. These give visitors a rare and memorable opportunity to learn about Yoshida’s exacting process.
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Old Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs
Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 25 - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Jun 21, 2025 to Feb 22, 2026
Detail: Leave your assumptions about prints and photographs behind. In this exhibition, flat surfaces expand outward. Images aren’t simply printed—they are worked, reworked, and then reworked again. Paper artworks accumulate layers of unusual materials like plastic, foam, glue, and tape. In our era of media endlessly copied, reproduced, and loaded to screens, these photographs and prints beg to be viewed in person.

Cut + Paste showcases seventeen Japanese artists who pushed the limits of printmaking and photography. By combining techniques, these artists created multilayered images that challenge distinctions between mediums, art-making traditions, and notions of fine art and commercial design.
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Old New Japanese Clay
Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, USA
Date: Aug 15, 2025 to Feb 02, 2026
Detail: Playful colors, otherworldly surfaces, adventurous and gravity-defying shapes — the world of contemporary Japanese ceramics is brimming with dynamic approaches to the medium of clay. From rugged works that mimic chunks of earth or stone to delicate forms imitating folds of paper or billowing textiles, the unconventional techniques in New Japanese Clay will expand your idea of what is possible in this time-honored art form.

The exhibition also introduces visitors to the makers behind the works on view. “This new generation of potters from Japan are building on the legacy of the mingei (folk art) movement while charting their own boldly experimental courses,” says Chief Curator and exhibition curator Dr. Robert Mintz, who notes that many of the featured artists also maintain social media accounts offering behind-the-scenes looks at their studio process.

“The artists in New Japanese Clay are challenging the conventions of functional ceramics and pivoting toward a purely sculptural experience,” Dr. Mintz notes. “Their creations are meant to intrigue and delight; the vessel form is just a point of departure for spectacular experimentation. Through a wide range of innovative materials and methods, these artists are reimagining ceramics for the 21st century.”
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Old Light as Air: The Buoyant Sculptures of Mariko Kusumoto
Place: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens - Delray Beach, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Florida, USA
Date: Nov 06, 2025 to Apr 04, 2026
Detail: The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens invites you to Light as Air: The Buoyant Sculptures of Mariko Kusumoto, a special exhibition celebrating the sustained devotion to traditional craft as interpreted by the innovative contemporary artist, Mariko Kusumoto. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Kusumoto grew up in a 400-year old temple in Japan. The beauty of the landscape and the textures of the aging temple always intrigued the emerging artist. She studied painting and printmaking at Musashino Art College in Tokyo and at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. After several years of working in metal sculpture, Kusumoto began to experiment with tsumami zaiku, the ancient art of folding and pinching fabric. Mariko Kusumoto’s fiber creations are inspired by a range of phenomena, from organic to man-made. Many of the diaphanous forms seem to be floating in water, eliciting images of a lush aquatic garden. In Light as Air, Kusumoto will expand the scale of her transparent sculptural forms to create a unique, on-site installation that will meander and float into all dimensions of the gallery space.
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Old Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared
Place: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave SW, USA
Date: Nov 08, 2025 to Feb 01, 2026
Detail: Collecting is a timeless passion—an enduring way to preserve memories, express one’s taste, and safeguard traditions for generations to come. Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared honors this practice by presenting a remarkable selection of masterpieces generously donated to the Korean nation by the family of Lee Kun-Hee, the late chairman of Samsung Group.

Spanning ancient times to the present, the works featured in this exhibition embody the depth and diversity of Korea’s artistic legacy. Once held in private, these treasures now belong to the public, reflecting the Lee family’s profound commitment to preserving Korea’s cultural heritage and making it accessible to all.

The objects on view were originally created for a range of settings, including royal palaces, Buddhist temples, Confucian academies, scholars’ studios, and modern art spaces. Together, the works trace the evolution of Korean innovation, revealing shifts in style, power, belief, and technology over time. In Korean Treasures, the voices of those who made, used, and collected paintings and objects are displayed through letters, inscriptions, and dedications—offering glimpses into their lives and insights into the meanings these objects held before and now.
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Old Circumference of the Sun
Place: Heritage Museum of Asian Art - Chicago, 3500 S Morgan St, 3F, USA
Date: Nov 15, 2025 to Jan 15, 2026
Detail: Circumference of the Sun is a solo exhibition by Kioto Aoki that considers the body through cultural, material, and temporal archives through photographic avenues and techniques. Mythological ancestry and technical etymology converge in this exhibition through visual, formal, temporal, and process-based series of works that propose the various configurations between the body, light, photography, and the sun. The sun is a central entity in Japanese culture and mythology. The origin story recounts the lineage of Japanese people to the Shinto goddess of the sun, Amaterasu. Photography means “drawing with light” and is now the word used to describe the general process of exposing light upon light-sensitive materials. Another word was once proposed to also describe this process: photogene, meaning “produced by light.”Light-produced, descending from light, like the people of Japan.
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Old More Things Japanese
Place: Heritage Museum of Asian Art - Chicago, 3500 S Morgan St, 3F, USA
Date: Nov 15, 2025 to May 31, 2026
Detail: More Things, Japanese is an encyclopedic exhibition that showcases the richness and diversity of traditional Japanese art, spanning from the 6th–7th centuries through the 20th centuries. Featuring a wide array of historical objects—including ceramics, textiles, paintings, woodblock prints, and religious artifacts—this exhibition invites audiences to engage more deeply with Japan’s visual, material, and spiritual culture.

The title More Things, Japanese is both a gentle provocation and a generous invitation. While many Chicagoans may feel acquainted with Japanese culture through sushi restaurants, ramen shops, gardens, and seasonal festivals, this exhibition offers a chance to go further—to explore more things, more stories, and more perspectives.

As part of the Heritage Museum of Asian Art’s ongoing commitment to amplifying underrepresented narratives within the Asian American experience, the exhibition also honors the history and contributions of Japanese Americans in Chicago. In the wake of World War II and Japanese internment, many families resettled in the Midwest, including here in Chicago. Over time, their presence has become less visible. Through this exhibition and its related programs, we seek to re-center those stories and celebrate the enduring cultural legacy of the Japanese American community.

Highlights include masterworks of early Japanese art, Edo-period prints and scrolls, and domestic and ceremonial objects that speak to everyday life and philosophical tradition. Accompanying the main exhibition, a rotating pop-up series will present works by local Japanese and Japanese American artists—showcasing how Japanese art and culture have continued to thrive across both geographic and generational boundaries. A robust slate of public programs—including workshops, artist talks, and community events—will celebrate the ongoing influence of Japanese aesthetics, philosophy, and craftsmanship within Chicago’s contemporary art and cultural landscape.
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Old Mythical Creatures: The Stories We Carry
Place: USC Pacific Asia Museum - Pasadena, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, California, USA
Date: Feb 14, 2026 to Sep 06, 2026
Detail: A major exhibition that transforms USC Pacific Asia Museum into an immersive journey through myth and the immigrant story, Mythical Creatures: The Stories We Carry is sweeping in scale and deeply personal in tone, its narrative written in verse in a voice evocative of a wise elder to a loved one. The exhibition draws approximately 100 objects from USC PAM’s significant collection—which spans more than 5,000 years and includes art from East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, and the Pacific Islands and their diasporas— blending them with new media technology and works by more than 20 contemporary artists, including several commissions. The result is an interdisciplinary experience in which visitors engage with the past not only through didactic explanation, but through creative activations of pan-Asian mythology that ignite feeling and memory.

Contemporary artists represented include Dinh Q. Lê, Lily Honglei, Wendy Park, Momoko Schafer, Kyungmi Shin, Sanjay Vora, and Lauren YS.
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Old Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy
Place: Asia Society - New York, 725 Park Avenue, USA
Date: Mar 18, 2026 to Jan 03, 2027
Detail: In celebration of Asia Society’s 70th anniversary, Asia Society Museum presents Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy.

Displaying seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States drawn from Asia Society’s permanent collection, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of bronzes, ceramics, and metalwork thoughtfully assembled between the 1950s and the 1970s by John D. Rockefeller 3rd (1906-1978) and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (1909-1992). John D. Rockefeller 3rd founded Asia Society in 1956 with the mission to promote greater knowledge of Asia in the United States; the bequest of the collection to Asia Society in 1979 underscores the Rockefellers’ conviction that an aesthetic encounter with great works of art promotes deep cross-cultural understanding.

With highlights including spectacular Buddhist and Hindu sculptures, and rare Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ceramics, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon celebrates historic achievements in Asian art spanning more than two millennia. The exhibition foregrounds the transformative power of faith and the catalyzing potential of international trade in the creation of great works of art across Asia.

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon presents a special opportunity for museum visitors to experience the unparalleled quality of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at its home at Asia Society Museum in New York City.
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Old Into the Waters with Senju and Bingyi: Two Contemporary Paintings
Place: Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Galleries 25 - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Apr 02, 2026 to Aug 23, 2026
Detail: Water is more than subject or inspiration for contemporary artists Hiroshi Senju and Bingyi—it’s a method, a material, and a philosophy. Be among the first to see their paintings, which offer two distinct, hypnotic visualizations of water.

Senju and Bingyi reimagine their cultures’ rich artistic traditions with their own bold experiments. Senju reconfigures traditional Japanese painting with contemporary techniques and abstracts real waterfalls into idealized images. Often painting outdoors, Bingyi intuitively channels raw nature but also pulls on historical Chinese ink painting and philosophy. This exhibition puts the artists’ two paintings in context with their unique methods, influences, and ethos.

Across three hanging scrolls, Bingyi’s painting bears layers of splashed ink, the sea breeze’s effects, and careful brushwork that conjures a whorl of water and petals. Senju’s folding screens recall the dripping ceramic glazes and waterfall prints in our museum’s collections. By evoking water’s essence, these artists call us to ask: How is nature both permanent and vulnerable? How does water nurture and also destroy? What beauty and mystery can we find in the very resources we rely on? And what happens when we abandon the line between artist and environment?

Step into the gallery and feel the power and beauty of water.
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Old Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India’s Himalayan Kingdoms
Place: Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Galleries 23 - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Apr 18, 2026 to Jul 26, 2026
Detail: The tallest mountains on earth rise from the plains of northern India in a series of steep hills, snowy peaks, and narrow valleys. From the same Himalayan region arose some of the world’s most beautiful—yet least understood—works of art.

Discover the extraordinary beauty and unique history of paintings made for Hindu kings in India’s Pahari (hill) region between the 1620s and 1830s. Pahari artists worked in radically different styles ranging from lyrical and naturalistic to boldly colored and abstracted. Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India’s Himalayan Kingdoms illuminates new scholarship on the collaborative artist communities in which most painters worked. Learn about the political, cultural, and religious contexts of these forty-eight exquisite works, and look closely to enter a world of fine detail that delights and astounds.

Of the Hills celebrates the remarkable collection of Pahari paintings the museum acquired from renowned art historian Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim. Some of these artworks have never been exhibited publicly before. We’ve brought these rare pieces into conversation with our historic collections and paintings on loan from the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Old Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema
Place: Mingei International Museum - San Diego, Balboa Park, 1439 El Prado, California, USA
Date: Oct 10, 2026 to Apr 04, 2027
Detail: Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema exhibition highlights one of Japan’s most fascinating folk painting traditions, ema – house-shaped wooden votive plaques offered as prayers in Japan’s Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Most ema are small and traditionally feature hand-painted imagery of deities, animals, or objects, representing wishes as general as good fortune for the coming year or as specific as the removal of warts. The objects are overflowing with color, hope, and humor, including some very surprising visual puns. For centuries, worshippers have inscribed these ema with impassioned prayers and hung them up on wooden stands outside shrine and temple halls, hoping that the gods will read them and grant their wishes before the end of the year, when the plaques are ritually burned. Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema will present the history of this religious painting tradition, explain the different uses of large and small ema, and introduce the many different categories of images and the prayers associated with each of them. Curated by Japanese art historian Meher McArthur, this will be the first museum exhibition in the United States to present such an extensive and varied display of ema, both large and small, ranging from the 18th century to the present day.
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Old Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts
Place: V&A South Kensington - London, Cromwell Road, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 28, 2025 to Sep 27, 2026
Detail: In the 1980s, Chinese artists began to reimagine craft as a medium for artistic expression. This display explores the dimensions of studio craft practice in China today, and the innovations which have grown from China's longstanding craft tradition.
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Old Engage with history through art at Temple, National Gallery Singapore’s first rooftop installation integrating kinetic motion and sound
Place: National Gallery Singapore - Singapore, 1 St Andrew's Road, Singapore 178957, Singapore
Date: Oct 25, 2025 to Oct 11, 2026
Detail: Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery, Level 5

Embark on a meditative experience at Temple, a new participatory artwork by Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Commissioned by National Gallery Singapore for its Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series and presented as part of Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention, Temple invites visitors to reflect on history and contemplate the impact of war through a multisensorial experience that blends kinetic motion and sound – underscoring the Gallery's mission to connect the art of Singapore and Southeast Asia to the world and foster critical dialogue on global issues through art.


Featuring bells and mobiles crafted from recovered and defused unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the Vietnam War, visitors are encouraged to strike the defused shells, gongs, and chimes, creating a meditative soundscape. Through this transformation of weapons of war into instruments of peace, Nguyen inspires ideas of karmic balance, reincarnation, and the memories embedded within materials, offering a powerful lens for healing and reconciliation.


Temple is the eighth edition of the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission.
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Old Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega: Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest
Place: Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark - Singapore, 39 Keppel Road, Singapore 089065, Singapore
Date: Jan 16, 2026 to May 31, 2026
Detail: Artists Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega explore how the demands of a relentless extraction, from plantations to electric futures, cast a shadow on the very "breath of the Earth."



Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega: Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest imagines the afterlives of materials that persist long after their use, outlasting our time in this age of excess. Plantations, mining sites, and the promise of electric vehicle technologies become places where the stories of tomorrow are formed, bound by Indonesia’s extractive economies whose resources sustain the pulse of today’s global demand.
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Old Momentary Pulses: Art in the Central Business District
Place: Various sites across Singapore’s CBD (from Raffles Place to Tanjong Pagar) - Singapore, Singapore
Date: Jan 30, 2026 to Dec 31, 2027
Detail: Date: 30 January 2026 – 31 December 2027
Venue: Various sites across Singapore’s CBD (from Raffles Place to Tanjong Pagar)
Admission: Free

Presented by The Everyday Museum (a public art initiative by Singapore Art Museum), Momentary Pulses is a public art trail that invites you to slow down and encounter art in the daily flow of life. Spanning overlooked and interstitial public spaces like linkways, open plazas and MRT passages, seven newly commissioned installations by Singapore based artists respond to the sights, sounds and commercial pulse of the Central Business District (CBD) — turning routine journeys into moments of reflection and imagination.

Featuring works by Song-Ming Ang, Finbarr Fallon, Catherine Hu, Zul Mahmod, collaborative duo Teow Yue Han and Federico Ruberto, Yang Jie and Immanuel Koh, the trail reveals the textures and histories embedded within Singapore’s urban core. The works will be launched in two phases, with the first phase featuring five installations by Song-Ming Ang, Finbarr Fallon, Catherine Hu, Zul Mahmod, and the collaborative duo Teow Yue Han and Federico Ruberto. The remaining two works by Yang Jie and Immanuel Koh will be introduced in the later part of 2026. Each installation is sited within walking distance in the CBD, including stops near OUE Link (Raffles Place), One Raffles Quay (North Tower), Asia Square (Tower 1), Shenton House, and Tanjong Pagar MRT (Exit G). Look out for kinetic and sound-based installations, AI-driven works, sculptural interventions, and site-specific gestures that reframe how we perceive the city’s everyday infrastructures. Together, these works offer distinct lenses on movement, memory, technology and transformation — encouraging new ways of seeing a district in constant motion.

As part of the public art trail’s opening, The Everyday Museum launches Story Scape (30 January – 8 February 2026), a festival organised in collaboration with StoryFest. The festival extends the trail through exciting storytelling performances, artist talks and an evening audiovisual experience at RASA Space. Programme details will be announced on SAM’s channels.
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Old S.E.A. Focus 2026: The Humane Agency
Place: Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands - Singapore, 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018956, Singapore
Date: Jan 23, 2026 to Jan 25, 2026
Detail: In a world shaped by shifting borders, changing climates, and diaspora, how do we choose to respond? S.E.A. Focus returns for its eighth edition under the curatorial theme, The Humane Agency.

Curated by John Z.W. Tung, with artistic consultation by Emi Eu, Executive Director of STPI, the presentation highlights the quiet yet urgent force of artists who choose compassion over detachment. Instead of framing people as mere symbols of crisis, the works foreground human connection—as a site of relation, care and resilience.

Spanning a variety of formats, scale and media, galleries and artists from across Southeast Asia and beyond reflect on three pressing global currents: the persistence of conflict and our longing for peace, the intensifying ecological crisis, and the movement of communities across and beyond nation-states. Together, the works slow us down, deepen our capacity to feel and remind us that empathy is not optional—it is a method, an urgency and first step toward imagining a more connected, less estranged future.

Commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC), S.E.A. Focus 2026 will be organised by and held at ART SG 2026 for the first time at the iconic Marina Bay Sands. Audiences are invited to experience how artists today act not just as observers of the world, but as active participants in shaping it.

More information on S.E.A. Focus can be found at https://seafocus.sg/.
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