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Named after Maya Angelou’s famous collection of poetry, And Still I Rise brings together a group of culturally diverse women artists living in Australia, many of whom are internationally recognised, if less familiar at home.

Five fearless women. One unified vision of art & empowerment from Southeast Asia.

By placing ceramics in dialogue with related art forms—including lacquers, textiles, paintings, and woodblock prints—the display inspires curiosity about the multiverse of Japanese ceramics and its broader cultural contexts.

Celebrating the Year of the Horse brings together works from The Met collection to explore the horse’s enduring nature and vital place in Chinese civilization.

This year-long special display brings together childhood textiles of Hong Kong from the 1930s to the 2020s – from heirloom garments and ready-made fashion to mass produced toys and artisanal dolls. Play, touch and let a ruffle of fabric, like an unexpected scent, bring you back to a moment you didn’t know you missed.

Navigating Through Centuries surveys the complex trajectory of art in Korea, which was significantly impacted by socio-political upheaval and cultural developments from the fifth century to the present.

To see the collections is also to be grateful that institutions like Ayala Museum and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas not only want to protect this legacy but also work together to share them with Filipinos and the world.

Sherpa brings a personal perspective to migration in his art, asking how the spirits of Himalayan Buddhism with which he grew up and whom he learned to depict as a young artist might adapt to the stresses and opportunities of migration as they move through today’s world together with the Himalayan people.  

A new body of paintings exploring notions of home and love, displayed alongside Tate works, The Lovers and The Spaghetti House

Enjoy over 150 works selected from the Huaihaitang Collection, of late Kangxi to the early Jiaqing period objects. The exhibition included porcelain, jade, bronzes, lacquerware, textiles, scholars’ objects, books, rubbings, and calligraphy and painting.

What do we see in museums? In vitrines and behind barriers, objects appear, above all, static. Mirae kh Rhee explores how these objects arrived at their current locations. The artist questions who collects (or collected) what and why, and what messages are conveyed through the different kinds of collections.

From the 16th to 18th century, three great empires – the Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans – shaped a vast and interconnected world across Asia.

City of Memory: Nanjing in the Seventeenth Century explores how artists lived and worked in this charged environment in the decades before and after the fall of the Ming dynasty.

When considering a color deeply embedded in the cultural imagination, "black" is often among the first to come to mind, having coexisted with human history since time immemorial.

“In Loving Memory of Prof. Lee Hon-ching”, an exhibition drawn from the significant donation of the late Professor Lee Hon-ching (1938–2025), Honorary Fellow of CUHK.

Famed characters from the world’s longest-running theatrical art form take center stage in colorful woodblock prints.

From Persia to Paisley: Global Luxury and the Kashmir Shawl – A Special Installation in the Hossein Afshar Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries at the MFAH.

Lacquer is fascinating. The material protects, preserves, and embellishes, revealing its unique aesthetic power.

Ektashif Uzbekistan brings these experiences into the Museum of Islamic Art, showcasing new work developed by the participating artists and offering audiences an opportunity to engage with Qatari artistic responses to Uzbekistan’s Islamic cultural heritage.

Renowned for his unflinching exploration of history, memory, violence, and the fragility of human existence, Ahn works across painting, sculpture, and multimedia.

China Institute of America presents Celebrating Sixty Years of China Institute Gallery: 1966-2026. Exhibition will be on from September 10, 2026 -to January 3, 2027.

A sensory journey through sixty years of innovative abstraction.

The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, is famous for holding iconic works of art, like Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Did you know it also houses one of the richest and most comprehensive collections of Islamic art in the world?

Discover 2,000 years of Korean creativity – through works spanning from around 300 BC to the present day.

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.

In the context of his first major exhibition in Portugal at Casa e Parque de Serralves, Lee s aesthetic experimentations come into potent relief.

Through a rich selection of paintings, poetry, and archival materials, the exhibition reveals how Fan dedicated himself to the practice of ink art while cultivating his identity as a scholar-artist, teacher, and steadfast master of the Chinese literati tradition.

Myths and Monsters: The Art of Fantasy in Asia explores the role of fantasy in the evolution of Asian visual culture and its global impacts.

Southeast Asia’s largest ancient bronze makes a once-in-a-lifetime stop in San Francisco.

Through artworks and archival materials, What Lingers in the Artist’s Mindtraces the group's legacy while reflecting on the devastating impact of war on Iraq's cultural memory, treating absence and fragmentation as integral to historical narrative. The exhibition is curated by Nada Shabout.