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Touching the Divine: Love and devotion in Asian art explores aspects of love and devotion expressed through art created in sacred contexts across Asia.
The Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) presents Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light from August 27, 2025 through April 19, 2026. In her Pacific Northwest debut, renowned contemporary artist Anila Quayyum Agha will mesmerize visitors with her ornate light and shadow installations inspired by Islamic and world art and architecture, inviting contemplation of identity and cultural belonging.
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.
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.
Through precisely inked and animated scenes, Shahzia Sikander’s video artwork The Last Post (2010) critically considers the legacy of British colonialism in Asia, using her signature approach of infusing Indo-Persian miniature paintings with a contemporary perspective.
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.
Incorporating playable interactives, outdoor installations and more, Let’s Play! explores the rich history of games across Asia and the role they have played in shaping culture, identity, and community. Featuring works of extraordinary beauty and craftsmanship, the exhibition invites visitors to discover how the act of play continues to inspire, evolve, and connect people across time and place.
Works from the QAGOMA contemporary Asian collection complement and extend this dialogue, through the juxtaposition of religious and vernacular iconographies with contemporary reflections on belief.
The exhibition A Sounding of the Earth presents works by Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid.
A Dialogue Between Two Distinguished Private Collections, Marking the Debut of Jade Masterpieces from the K Collection.
8 November 2025–26 April 2026
Galleries 2 and 3, Photography Gallery, Al Manakh, Sharjah
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.
M+ presents Robert Rauschenberg and Asia, the first exhibition dedicated to the artist’s travels across Asia, opening in November 2025/
The Met's collection has become a key resource for the study of Chinese painting and calligraphy. This exhibition presents a rich selection of works from the collection arranged in a largely chronological display.
This exhibition presents nearly 20 kaleidoscopic Chinese patchwork textiles, which are rarely seen outside the villages where they are made. The textiles, coming from the Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Gansu, and Shaanxi provinces, reveal a wide variety of compositions, patterns, and techniques, which reflect local styles and individual aesthetics alike.
Discover how a once-coveted cloth reshaped global trade, inspired revolutions, and changed the course of history in Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution, opening at Bowers Museum on December 13, 2025. This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the story of Indian chintz—painted and printed cottons that revolutionized the way the world dressed and drove the development of modern industry.
A selection of over 150 folding fans from the Jingguanlou Collection is featured in the exhibition in two phases, complemented by Chinese paintings from the museum collection, leading visitors to appreciate the cultivated elegance of the Chinese literati.
The exhibition invites audiences to appreciate the Chih Lo Lou Collection of Chinese paintings and calligraphy from different perspectives, focusing on the diminutive and scantily outlined figures in Chinese landscape paintings.
Wu (1919-2010) was a master of the Chinese and international art scene, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century art. He travelled around the world for sketching, leaving his footprints in over 20 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
With its internationally renowned collections containing important objects from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, Museum Rietberg is one of the largest art museums in Switzerland. Complementing the collection presentation at Villa Wesendonck, the exhibition at Park-Villa Rieter showcases significant works from the collection of Indian painting as well as from the photography collection. From January 2026, it is dedicated to the significance of colour in the arts.
Architecture’s connections to concepts and mindsets known from anthropology, archaeology and geology are spotlighted in the exhibition with the two studios DnA Architecture and Design (Beijing) and ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects (Paris).
CUHK Art Museum opens annual zodiac exhibition: “Celebrating the Year of the Horse” exploring the history and culture of horses through over 40 sets of artefacts.
“Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal” explores these popular prints’ origins and powerful impacts. When Indian artists encountered the new printmaking technology of lithography in 19th-century Calcutta (today Kolkata), then the capital of British India, they used it to reinvent devotional art.
Discover the reality behind a millennium of myth at this sweeping exhibition on the legendary Japanese warriors. Tuesday, February 3 to Monday, May 4, 2026.
This exhibition examines Noguchi’s deep and dynamic relationship with New York City, exploring how its material, cultural, social, and political landscape indelibly transformed his artwork and thinking, and how he in turn transformed the city.
On view across three floors of the JC Contemporary and F Hall galleries, the second chapter of the panoramic exhibition Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008 shifts our attention from the digital world to the material one. Anchored in the new realities created by China’s unprecedented economic growth over the last four decades, artists re-examine the country’s role as the world’s centre for the production and logistics that sustain modern life.
The exhibition explores Buddhist teachings through contemporary works and Buddhist sculpture, within a dialogue about nature, collective responsibility and individual agency.
Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art is curated by Yeonsoo Chee, Korea Foundation associate curator of Korean art at the Art Institute of Chicago. This exhibition, drawn from the National Bequest of Lee Kun-Hee’s Collection, is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, the National Museum of Korea, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.
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.
In spring 2026, Japan Society Gallery will present Kawai Kanjirō: House to House , an exhibition celebrating the remarkable life and artistic career of folk potter and avant-garde artist Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966) for the first time in the United States.
Multimedia Exhibition Celebrates How a Peking Opera Superstar Captured the American Imagination in 1930
Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now is a comprehensive survey of her career to date, featuring major works from the artist’s studio and collections across Asia and beyond.
Asia Week New York Returns for 17th Annual Celebration of Asian Art. Programming Will Take Place March 19–27, 2026. Featuring Both Ancient and Contemporary Works From Across Asia.
Bringing together 14 artists from across Asia, Threading Inwards explores the deep connection between textiles and spiritual life, showcasing how the acts of weaving, dyeing and stitching form a tactile language of personal and collective memory, emotion, belief and imagination.
This thematic display explores Indanthrene Blue, the industrial dye iconically represented by ‘Miss Happiness’ in 1930s China.
Symbolising progress and speed, it is the world’s first synthetic vat dye and is known for exceptional vibrancy. The colour has since been widely adopted for school uniforms and other institutional attire.
Asia Society Hong Kong Center proudly presents Hung Hsien: Between Worlds, the first part of “Celebration of Ink” – a two-part series that celebrates the profound legacy and spirit of contemporary ink art.
Singapore Biennale 2025: More than 80 Artists to Active the Everyday with ‘Pure Intention’. Artists and thinkers enliven residential neighbourhoods and the urban core across four distinct areas of the city, inviting the public to reimagine Singapore’s rapid change through everyday encounters.
In her first solo museum exhibition in the Bay Area, Japanese installation and performance artist Chiharu Shiota explores the fragility and resilience of memory, history, and identity.
Save the date for Art Dubai 2026, the pre-eminent art fair for the Middle East, returning to Madinat Jumeirah from 16 – 19 April for its 20th anniversary edition.
Highlights from the 22nd Ceramic Art London in May 2026
Pottery inspired by Wales, Egypt and the Middle Ages in creature,
vessel and figurative form make up just some of this extraordinary fair.
Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist whose work has shaped contemporary culture for more than seven decades, will be celebrated at The Broad in Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California, organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London.
In this renewed momentum, Printemps Asiatique Paris is already looking ahead to its next major event: The 9th edition will take place from June 3 to 12, 2026.
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.
