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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.
Washington, D.C. – The National Museum of Asian Art is presenting “Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings,” the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Anyang, the capital of ancient China’s Shang dynasty (occupied ca. 1250 BCE–ca. 1050 BCE), the source of China’s earliest surviving written records, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the birthplace of Chinese archaeology.
Born in Hawaii to parents of Okinawan ancestry, Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was a technically masterful and innovative artist best known for her ceramic sculptures, which she treated as abstract paintings in the round.
“The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Dwelling in Tranquillity—Reinventing Traditional Gardens” reinvents the traditional Chinese garden through a contemporary lens. The earliest garden appeared in the eleventh century BCE.
Bringing together artwork, archival material and architectural research from across the Global South, ‘Guest Relations’ examines the historical, political, social and cultural transformations accompanying processes of intense touristification.
In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Met’s Arts of Korea gallery, Lineages: Korean Art at The Met showcases highlights of the Museum’s collection paired with important international loans of Korean modern and contemporary art.
As early as 600 B.C.E., Chinese women’s roles in society were primarily centered within the home. These roles were informed by Confucianism, which promoted their view of a harmonious societal order, elevating men as the household authorities and assigning women to domestic roles. As a result, women’s contributions to society were largely overlooked.
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) will proudly present Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics, co-organized with the National Museum of Korea (NMK), from Dec. 3, 2023, to Dec. 7, 2025. Perfectly Imperfect will be on view in the museum’s William Sharpless Jackson Jr. Gallery and the Korea Gallery on level 5 of the Martin Building and will be included in general admission.
Craft Across Continents features more than 50 objects from the private collection of Lorne Lassiter and Gary Ferraro. Lassiter and Ferraro say they collect for the fun of it — visiting artists’ studios, art fairs, galleries and museums here and abroad — but they are serious-minded collectors with a deep knowledge of contemporary craft.
The thematic exhibition of the Hong Kong Palace Museum “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Stories Untold — Figure Paintings of the Ming Dynasty from the Palace Museum” is the first ever exhibition of historical Chinese figure paintings in Hong Kong.
Exquisite Chinese and Chinese-influenced ceramics from the Kyoto National Museum demonstrate the importance of Chinese art to Japanese tea culture.
This exhibition will explore the theme of diversity by comparing mythical creatures from different cultures. While these fantastical animals may look different, they serve a similar purpose – to help humans make sense of the world.
The KYOCERA Museum of Art in Kyoto City which celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2023, is pleased to present Takashi Murakami Mononoke Kyoto, a large-scale solo exhibition of works by leading contemporary artist Takashi Murakami (b. 1962–).
Drawn from the M+ Collections, this exhibition explores the complex connections between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world. Rotating displays will periodically renew the dialogues among the works and with the natural and urban environments beyond the museum itself.
As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability.
Over the course of sixty years, British artist Howard Hodgkin (British, London 1932–2017 London) formed a collection of Indian paintings and drawings that is recognized as one of the finest of its kind.
From the dragon’s first appearance in art some eight to nine thousand years ago, during the early Neolithic period, these ferocious beasts have occupied an honored place in Chinese culture.
The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will present Momentous Mountains: The Artistic, Philosophical and Cultural Engagement with Chinese Landscape Painting from February 28, 2024 to June 2, 2024.
The inaugural edition of maltabiennale.art is brought to you by MUŻA National Museum of Art, on behalf of the main organising bodies Heritage Malta and Arts Council Malta, and with full cooperation of The Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade and the Malta Tourism Authority.
To commemorate the grand opening of the Hong Kong Palace Museum in 2022, many Hong Kong collectors and artists generously supported the Museum's mission of promoting Chinese culture by donating important works of art.
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.
Para Site presents ‘Soft breath’, a solo exhibition of Trevor Yeung, co-commissioned in partnership with Gasworks, London; and Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao. Taking queer experiences that have shaped multi-species entanglements as a starting point, ‘Soft breath’ evokes the fluid interplay between night and day, public and private life, and hidden and visible desires.
Shedding new light on Yuanming yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) by featuring over 190 spectacular paintings, architectural models, and other works associated with this once-magnificent Qing dynasty imperial garden-palace, which served as the principal residence of five Qing emperors.
On the centennial anniversary of the birth of artist Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011), The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum announced its forthcoming major touring retrospective and monograph centered on her work and life.
Throughout Japanese cultural history, the boundary between the real world and the world of supernatural beings has been remarkably porous.
In the Meiji era (1868–1912), Japan became active on the global stage, embracing new technologies, fashions, and design trends from the Western world.
Japanese print culture, which had flourished for more than a century with the production of color woodcuts, dramatically changed course in 1868 following the overthrow of the shogun and the elevation of an emperor who promoted modernization and engagement with the West.
Woodcut — where prints are made from the raised surface of a carved wooden block — is the oldest printmaking technique, developed in China in the 5th century.
The Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) is proud to present Memories of Time: Leo Hee Tong时光印迹: 梁其栋, an exhibition showcasing the works of iconic Singaporean painter Leo Hee Tong. Featuring close to 50 paintings, both early and recent works from the NAFA alumnus will be on display. Held from 16 to 28 April 2024 at The Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries, the exhibition affords audiences a glimpse into the visual panorama of the artist’s life, memories, and imagination. This exhibition will be Leo’s sixth solo after a decade, and his first at his alma mater.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is pleased to announce Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then, an exhibition featuring new works by renowned artist Zeng Fanzhi (b. 1964) to be opened concurrently with the 2024 edition of La Biennale di Venezia.
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) today announced details of The Rooted Nomad, a unique exhibition on India’s most iconic contemporary artist, M.F. Husain (1915–2011). Presented at the Magazinni del Sale in Venice beginning April 18 and running through November 2024, this dual-format independent project, part exhibition and part immersive, resonates with the 2024 Venice Biennale’s theme of “Foreigners Everywhere.”
Based on recent archaeological discoveries, Phoenix Kingdoms reveals the previously unknown splendor, sophistication, and extravagance of two kingdoms that flourished at the end of China’s Bronze Age.
The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, will open to the public from Saturday April 20 to Sunday November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale.
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, the contemporary art fair for photography, announces today its gallery and exhibitor line-up, alongside programming highlights for its forthcoming ninth edition, including a collaborative showcase with PHOTOFAIRS New York.
Drawing Time: Duets presents new and historical works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, exploring the expanded range and possibilities of drawing as a practice. On view from 4 May to 4 August 2024 at Gallery 4 of Al Mureijah Art Spaces, this exhibition, which grew out of a two-year research project into conserving paper, seeks to re-examine the very nature of drawing as a culturally situated disciplinary practice—one that begins in the mind and extends into myriad material forms.
We are pleased to announce the Spring Edition of Civilisations Brussels Art Fair, which will take place from June 5th to 9th, 2024. International galleries will exhibit Tribal, Asian, and Oriental art in the dynamic Sablon district, renowned as one of Europe's cultural landmarks, and a hub for art dealers from around the world to participate.
The year 2024 marks 150 years since the first “Impressionist” exhibition was held in Paris. To celebrate this anniversary, the Normandie Impressionniste Festival, held in Normandy since 2010, has this year scheduled over 120 exhibitions and performing arts programs.
M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, will present I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture, the first major institutional retrospective to fully appraise the work of Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019), widely known as I. M. Pei, one of the most influential architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Generously supported by Lead Sponsor Bank of China (Hong Kong), this Special Exhibition will be held in the museum’s West Gallery and open to the public on Saturday, 29 June 2024.
Bringing together around exceptional galleries from around the globe to one of the most dynamic and active art and design scenes in the world, Tokyo Gendai is an exciting platform for commercial, artistic and intellectual exchange, and a nexus of cross-cultural discovery.
SAN MARINO, Calif.—A new exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will explore the potential of gardens as spaces that not only delight the senses and nourish the body but also inspire the mind—both intellectually and spiritually.