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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.
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.
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.
Sightlines highlights the imprint of Asian Americans on the physical and cultural terrain of Washington, D.C.
“Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection” includes more than two hundred gilt-bronze sculptures, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet between the 1300s and early 1900s.
Coinciding with The Noguchi Museum’s 40th anniversary in 2025, works from the Museum’s original second floor installation will return to those galleries for the first time since 2009. Against Time is curated by Matthew Kirsch, Noguchi Museum Curator and Director of Research.
Making It Matters mostly draws upon the diverse works of the M+ Collections. The artists, designers, and architects featured include John Cage, Harold Cohen, Julie & Jesse, John Maeda, Raffaella della Olga, Anna Ridler, Ki Saigon, Fujimori Terunobu, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Stanley Wong, and Võ Trọng Nghĩa Architects.
The exhibition features nearly 190 military artefacts from the Qing court in The Palace Museum’s collection, featuring a wide range of objects such as helmets, archery sets, sabres and swords, equestrian equipment, paintings, textiles, books, albums, and scientific instruments.
Eltiqa (Arabic for “encounter”) is an artist collective from Gaza City founded in 2000. For over twenty years, Eltiqa members have developed artistic practices together – including the setting up of a dedicated exhibition and workshop space in Gaza City, and supporting younger generations of artists through workshops, exhibitions and by offering a space to meet and dialogue.
In 1897, the French painter Claude Monet made four paintings of the chrysanthemums in his garden in Giverny, capturing them not in a vase but en plein air—painting the flowers as they grew. He had been an avid collector of Japanese prints since the 1870s, and his unexpected, expressive use of space in this experiment recalls the Large Flowers series of prints made between 1833 and 1834 by Katsushika Hokusai.
The world's most precious and noble metal, an object of envy, a symbol of wealth and splendour, a sign of elegance and refinement... Discovered nearly 7,000 years ago, gold has never ceased to fascinate mankind.
Asia Society Museum is showing Yang Fudong’s Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, in its entirety as a prelude to the upcoming exhibition, (Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Collection, opening in March. The work follows seven young men and women on journeys in search of their identities and ideal lives, reflecting the many urban, ideological, and economic transformations across China today.
Known for exquisite porcelain production and expansive trade, the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) represents a period of Chinese imperial rule between the fall of the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) and the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty (1644–1911).
Chinese bronzes made from the 12th to the 19th century are an important but often overlooked category of Chinese art. In ancient China, bronze vessels were emblems of ritual and power. A millennium later, in the period from 1100 to 1900, such vessels were rediscovered as embodiments of a long-lost golden age that was worthy of study and emulation.
This exhibition reintroduces key works in Asia Society Museum's Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of pre-modern Asian art through the lenses of three leading contemporary artists: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell.
This exhibition reintroduces key works in Asia Society Museum's Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of pre-modern Asian art through the lenses of three leading contemporary artists: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell. Each artist has selected a number of works in the collection within which to situate their own new and existing works, approaching historic objects in the collection through their practices and from multiple cultures, heritages, and positions.
Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art will be on view from March 6 through July 13, 2025 at China Institute Gallery at 100 Washington Street. The exhibition will showcase one of the world’s greatest collections of ancient Chinese bronzes outside of China from a crucial period in the history of human civilization.
M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, is pleased to present Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand, a large-scale installation and performance staged in The Studio at M+.
“Everything is art. Everything is politics.” Globally renowned artist Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is celebrated as a disruptor of artistic canons and a champion of free expression. In his work—ranging across performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation—he deploys humor and provocation, calling upon his viewers to examine history, society, and culture.
More than sixty masterpieces by Picasso will be on loan from Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP), which holds the largest and most significant repository of Picasso’s works in the world. They will be placed in conversation with over eighty pieces from the M+ Collections by more than twenty Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the early twentieth century to the present.
Imagine a god who appears to you as a mischievous child—you dance together in meadows, play with him, and gift him fruits and flowers. This may give you an idea of how the Hindu Pushtimarg community engages with the divine.
Food culture is naturally an important element of the Chinese civilisation. This exhibition invites visitors to enjoy a multicourse feast spanning five thousand years of Chinese history. The first part, Crossing from Life to Death , features a ceremonial meal for the deceased.
Over the course of three months, Jette Bang and ethnographer Klaus Ferdinand followed two Bedouin tribes in Qatar’s desert landscape. The outcome was over 1,200 photographs, both black and white and in colour, as well as footage for the documentary film Bedouins (1962).
Over the past four decades, Shanghai-born, Marin County–based artist Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961) has cultivated a unique practice that engages with the driving concepts and aesthetics of the Light and Space movement and East Asia’s tradition of ink painting.
National Gallery Singapore presents City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s, the first major comparative exhibition dedicated to Asian artists in the French capital city during this dynamic period in modern art history.
The personal becomes universal in recent work by pioneering Taiwanese artist Yuan Goang-Ming (b. Taipei, 1965), whose starkly poetic videos and installations examine the fragmented and surreal nature of contemporary life.
An examination of the innovations in calligraphic art, Line, Form, Qi: Calligraphic Art from the Fondation INK Collection highlights experimental works of modern and contemporary calligraphic art made by artists including Fung Ming Chip, Gu Wenda, Inoue Yūichi, Lee In, Henri Michaux, Nguyễn Quang Thắng, Qiu Zhijie, Tong Yangtze, Wang Dongling, Wei Ligang, and Xu Bing.
Storytelling is a vital part of many Asian cultures. The works in this gallery were created by Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, Indian, Persian, and Armenian artists from the 1200s to 1800s. Drawing inspiration from Asian literature, religion, and history, these artists enliven stories with their dynamic visual narratives.
The Farjam Foundation is proud to present Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes, an exhibition exploring how women have been represented—and have represented themselves—across the evolving visual landscape of the Middle East.
The exhibition highlights one of the central figures of the Japanese avant-garde, little known in France: the multidisciplinary artist Tarō Okamoto.
Hung Hsien: Between Worlds is a solo exhibition of the pioneering modern ink artist Hung Hsien (洪嫻, Margaret Chang, b. 1933). It celebrates the life and artistic legacy of one of the most important yet underrepresented contributors to the development of modern ink painting.
The exhibition includes the world-renowned terracotta army of Emperor Qin Shihuang, a dazzling array of the warrior of the Emperor Jing of Han. This exhibition highlights the political, economic, cultural, technological and cross-border transportation developments during the Qin and Han dynasties. It will run until July 7 with free admission.
'Reframing Strangeness', an exhibition that stages a selection of Hong Kong-based artist Ha Bik Chuen's (1925–2009) motherboards, collagraphs and gouache drawings, opens Friday, 9 May, at Para Site.
Rajput paintings evoke many moods and senses. They tell stories about the beliefs, desires, myths, poetry, and power that shaped the royal Rajput courts of northern India during the 16th to 19th centuries.
This exhibition, with the theme of Palace Museum patterns, draws inspiration from the intricate motifs found in the architecture, ceramics, and textiles of the Palace Museum.
Just over a thousand years ago, the scholar Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Iṣṭakhrī wrote an important book, all about the world he knew. Today the book is known by two titles, Kitāb al-Masālik wa al-Mamālik (The Book of Routes and Realms) and Kitāb Ṣuwar al-Aqālīm (The Book of the Forms of World Regions).
Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) proudly announces A Seat at the Table: Food & Feasting in the Islamic World, a large-scale exhibition exploring the cultural role of food across the Islamic world and within Muslim traditions. The compelling exhibition is organised by MIA in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and will be on view from 22 May till 8 November 2025.
2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the first terracotta army pit in the 1970s, a find that reshaped global understanding of ancient China. Both Bowers Museum’s 2008 exhibition Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor and 2011 exhibition Warriors, Tombs, and Temples: China’s Enduring Legacy captivated audiences with these awe-inspiring relics.
From the museum that brought you the U.S. premiere of China's Terracotta Warriors in 2008, Bowers proudly presents new groundbreaking discoveries with World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century! Explore China’s captivating early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province, learning why it is hailed as a cradle of ancient Chinese civilization. Traverse millennia, from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to pivotal sites of the Shang and Zhou eras, culminating in the iconic terracotta warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE.
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents the exhibition Bamboo: From Pattern to Work, through its Japanese and Chinese collections for the 8th edition of Asia Week. After focusing on a form in the exhibition Du Bol (About the Bowl) and on materials and know-how in Luxury Objects in China, the museum invites you to discover a recurring motif in Asian art: bamboo.
This exhibition brings together iconic masterworks from The Textile Museum Collection. As the museum launches its centennial year, Intrinsic Beauty celebrates textile making as one of the world’s oldest and most sophisticated art forms.
Geographical location and historical background combined to turn Hong Kong into a hub for paintings, calligraphies and other artefacts in mid-20th century.
As the Sun Appears from Beyond celebrates over 20 years of contemporary Islamic art, illuminating its enduring legacy, creativity, and spiritual resonance. Making its North American debut after opening at the 18th Al Burda Award ceremony, which took place at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the exhibition is presented in collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Culture.
As the first major Islamic art exhibition held in Hong Kong, “Wonders of Imperial Carpets: Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” features carpets from Iran, Türkiye, and India, along with ceramics, metalwork, manuscripts, and jades from the 10th to 19th centuries.
The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, is honoured to present Bamboo Baskets: Chinese Origins, Japanese Innovations, a major exhibition offering an overview of the finest achievements of bamboo art in East Asia.
Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms offers a glimpse into the dynamic graphic design scene of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), showcasing how innovative Arabic and Persian typography contribute to global visual culture. On display in the Rasheed Dhuka and Nooruddin Khawja Family Gallery, Atrium, and external façade of the Museum, the artworks bridge tradition and innovation, demonstrating the continuity of historic Islamic art in contemporary design.
Taking place in London at the height of the Summer Art Season, Eye of the Collector is a unique fair that offers a curated presentation of art and collectible design in dialogue with beautiful architectural surroundings. The next edition will take place between the 25th and 28th June 2025 (25th by invitation only).
Canton Modern presents twentieth-century Cantonese art and visual culture in its full complexity as an important chapter in global modernism. United in a shared linguistic and cultural identity, the southern port cities of Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong were historically marginal in China.
At the heart of The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower stands capsule A1305, a fully restored unit from the Tower’s top floor. The exhibition also brings together original drawings and models with ephemera, photographs, and films to explore how this unconventional structure became a hive of creativity, debate, and community.
On the occasion of The Textile Museum’s centennial, Enduring Traditions explores the cultural significance of treasures from the collection. From festival robes to palace carpets, these exceptional textiles reveal the traditions and values of communities across continents.
Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by 2007-2036 Biennial Sponsor Koç Holding, the 18th Istanbul Biennial will be curated by Christine Tohmé.
The 18th Istanbul Biennial will unfold in three distinct legs, each building on the previous one and carrying forward lines of inquiry and research from 2025 to 2027.
Every autumn Asian Art in London brings together leading international dealers and auction houses from the UK, Europe, USA and Asia. They specialise in a wide variety of ancient to modern Asian art, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Islamic and Middle Eastern, Himalayan and Central Asian, Southeast Asian.
We are thrilled to announce that the 13th edition of ART021 will take place at Shanghai Exhibition Center from November 13th to 16th, 2025. With a global vision based on local roots, ART021 commits to present outstanding art practice from leading galleries and institutions, providing an open and professional platform for galleries, artists, collectors and art lovers all over the world.
Save the date for the fourth edition of ART SG, presented by Founding and Lead Partner UBS. Southeast Asia’s leading international art fair will return to Singapore from 23 to 25 January 2026 (VIP Preview and Vernissage on 22 January), at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands.
India Art Fair is returning for its 17th edition to the NSIC Grounds in New Delhi from 5—8 FEB, 2026. Continuing our legacy of showcasing the very best of modern and contemporary art in South Asia, we’re calling on the most cutting-edge and visionary arts organisations to join us!
