34 Listings North America


Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Parvis Tanavoli, to 2 Oct; Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians, to 4 Jun.


Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Marking Time: Seasonal Imagery in Japanese Prints, to 12 June; Conversations: Past and Present in Asia and America, to 12 June. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada Karen Tam: With Wings Like Clouds Hung from the Sky, 3 Jun to 4 Sept Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat, to 9 Jul; New Galleries for Islamic Art, ongoing; Batik Textiles of Java, to 21 Sept; The Formation of the Japanese Print Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, to 23 Jul. Asia Society, New York City, NY Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia, to 4 Jun; Art of the Tang Dynasty (618-906): Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection, to 4 Jun; Masterpieces from the Asia Society Museum Collection, to 7 Jan 2018. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA


Saints and Kings: Arts, Culture, and Legacy of the Sikhs, to 18 Jun; The Sculptural Turn: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Kempner and Stein Collection, to 26 Nov; Flower Power, 23 Jun-1 Oct; A Journey into the Great Unknown, to 29 Oct.


Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, Ca. Sacred Realms: Temple Murals by Shashi Dhoj Tulachan from the Gayle and Eward P Roski Collection, ongoing; Anicent Arts of China: A 5,000 Year Legacy, ongoing. Empress Dowager Cixi: Selections from the Summer Palace, 12 Nov to 11 March 2018


Crow Museum, Dallas, TX Wisdom of Compassion: The Art and Science of Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917- 2002), to 11 Jun; Divine Pathways: South and Southeast Asian Art, to 25 Jun; Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney, to 25 Jun; Sculpting Nature: Jade from the Collection, ongoing; Visualizing Afterlife, Paradise and Earthly Spheres in Chinese Art, ongoing. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,TX Waxed: Batik from Jave, to 10 Sept; The Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery, to Apr 2019. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Robert and Lisa Kessler Collection, to 1 Oct. Field Museum, Chicago, IL Cyrus Tang Hall of China, ongoing; Hall of Jades, ongoing. Fowler Museum UCLA, Los Angeles Enduring Splendor: Jewelry of India’s Thar Desert, to 18 Jun. Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.


Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran, ongoing; Xu Bing: Monkeys Grasp for the Moon, ongoing; Perspectives: Michael Joo, to 9 Jul; Sculpture of South Asia and the Himalayas, ongoing; Sky Blue: Color in Ceramics of the Islamic World, ongoing; Chinamania, to 4 Jun; Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered, to 9 Jul, The Glazed Elephant: Ceramic Traditions in Cambodia, from 15 Apr. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Highlights from the Asian Collection, ongoing; Show Me the Mini, to 25 Nov Honolulu Museum of Arts, Honolulu, Mizusashi: Japanese Water Jars from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection, to 11 Jun; Shahzia Sikander: Parallax, to 30 Jul; Illustrating the Modern Novel: The Art of Mizuno Toshikata, to 18 Jun; Explorations of Late 19th-Century Japanese Photography, 22 Jun-20 Aug.


Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL Show Me the Mini, to 25 Nov Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN


Mastering Materials: Rare Objects from the IMA’s Asian Collection, to


15 Jul; Elegance from the East: New Insights from Old Porcelain, to 22 Oct. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Ambreen Dut: I Need a Hero, to 26 June


Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Sadako’s Crane, ongoing. Japan Society, New York City A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints, to 11 Jun. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY Identity Crisis: Reflections on Public and Private Life in Contemporary Javanese Photography, to 11 Jun. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR


Japanese Art of the Edo Period (1615-1868) and Beyond, to 20 Aug; Proletarian Revolution: 20th Century Chinese Propaganda, to 16 Aug. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA


Storytelling in Bali: Paintings from the Bateson-Mead Collection, to 2 Jul; Chinese Ceramics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to 22 Jul; Chinese Snuff Bottles from Southern Californian Collectors, to 1 Oct. Polished to Perfection: Japanese Cloisonné from the Collection of Donald K. Gerber and Sueann E. Sherry, to 4 Feb 2018 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY


Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, 13 June to 4 Feb 2018; Cosmic Buddhas in the Himalatas, 24 June to 10 Dec; An Artist of Her Time: Y. G. Srimati and the Indian Style, to 18 Jun; Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 220), to 16 Jul; Asian Art at 100: A History in Photographs, to 6 Aug; Show and Tell: Stories in Chinese


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June; Asian Art Galleries, ongoing. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT


Modern Art from the Middle East, to 16 Jul. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA


Renaissance Woman in Asia: Florance Waterbury and Her Gifts of Asian Art, to 20 Aug; Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang, 24 Jun to 12 Nov.


Europe


Tate Modern, London Fahrelnissa Zeid 13 June to 8 October


Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats, to 4 Jun; Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, to 28 Jan 2018. Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Miss


Emperors, Scholars and Temples: Tastemakers of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, until 17 July. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana Orientalism: Taking and Making, to 31 Dec.


Newark Museum, Newark, N.J From Meiji to Modern: Japanese Art Goes Global, ongoing; The Art of Japan, ongoing; Korea: Land of the Diamond Mountains, ongoing; Arts of Asia Overview, ongoing; Red Luster, ongoing; Tibet Collection Exhibitions, ongoing; Gods, Guides and Sacred Symbols of India, ongoing; Influences of the Indic World: India and Nepal, ongoing; Southeast Asia: Art of a Cultural Crossroads, ongoing; Tiaras to Toe Rings: ents, ongoing; Musical Arts of Asia, to 26 Feb 2018. The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center, to 7 Jan 2018.


Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA MegaCity: India’s Culture of the Streets, to 31 Dec; Importing Splendor: Luxuries from China, to 31 Dec; Double Happiness: Celebration in Chinese Art, to 31 Dec. Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Phulkari: The Embroidered Textiles of Punjab, to 9 July; Designing Japan, ongoing.


Metropolitan Museum, New York Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, 13 June to 4 Feb 2018


Painting, to 6 Aug; Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, to 4 Sept; Splendors of Korean Art, to 17 Sept; Company School Painting in India (ca. 1770–1850), to 1 Oct; Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer, 14th to 19th Century, to 9 Oct; From the Imperial Theater: Chinese Opera Costumes of the18th and 19th Centuries, to 9 Oct; Colors of the Universe: Chinese Hardstone Carvings, to 9 Oct.


Middlebury Museum of Art, Vt Robert F Reiff Gallery of Asian Art, ongoing.


Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA Kanban: Traditional Shop Signs of Japan, to 8 Oct.


Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN


Embroidering an Ordered Cosmos: Chinese Daoist Priest Garments of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), to 3 Sept; A World of Radiant Awakening: Buddhism and the Painting of China, to 5 Nov; Boundless Peaks: Ink Paintings by Minol Araki, 7 Oct to 12 Feb 2018 Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, FL


A Legacy: Gifts from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection, 9 Jun-17 Sept.


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston New Women for a New Age: Japanese Beauties, 1890s to 1930s, to 20 Aug; China’s 8 Brokens: Puzzles of the Treasured Past, 17 Jun-29 Oct Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX


ASIAN ART SUMMER QUARTER 2017


Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ Samurai: Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection, to 16 Jul; Virtue and Valor: Sikh Art and Heritage, to 10 Sept.; Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet, 23 Sept to 18 Feb 2018


Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI


Asian Galleries, ongoing. Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, to 10 Sept.; Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads, opens 9 June Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, NY


Gateway to Himalayan Art, to 27 Jun; Sacred Spaces: Himalayan Wind and the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, to 5 Jun; Henri Cartier-Bresson, India in Full Frame, to 4 Sept; The World is Sound, from 16 Jun San Antonio Musum, San Antonio TX Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism, 16 June to 10 Sept; The Magic of Clay and Fie: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics, though autumn 2017 San Jose Museum of Art, CA Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City, to 24 Sept.


Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Carved Paper: The Art of the Japanese Stencil, to 11 June Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Common Pleasures: Art of Urban Life in Edo Japan, to 22 Oct; Awakened Ones: Buddhas of Asia, ongoing; Porcelain Room, ongoing; Ai Weiwei: Colored Vases, ongoing; Europe Imagines the East, ongoing; Pure Amusements: Wealth, Leisure, and Culture in Late Imperial China, ongoing.


Smart Museum, Chicago, IL The Other Side: Osaka Prints from the Brooks McCormick Collection, to 10


Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland Material Traces: Conserving and Exploring Textiles, to 12 Nov Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Chinese Coins from the Scholar’s Study, to 25 Sept; Collecting the Past: Scholars’ Taste in Chinese Art, to 22 Oct; Beyond the Brush: Abstract Ink Paintings since 1960, to 28 Aug.


Barbican Art Gallery, London


The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945, to 25 Jun. Baur Foundation, Geneva


A Chinese Adventure: A Swiss family in pursuit of success in the Celestial Empire, to 2 Jul; Permanent collections of Japanese and Chinese art. British Museum, London Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave, 25 May- 13 Aug; Iranian Voices: recent acquisitions of works on paper, to 21 May; Permanent Asian and Islamic art collections. Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London Celebrating Art and Music: The SOAS Collections, to 24 June. Cernuschi Museum, Paris


Lee Ungno, the Man of Crowds, 8 June to 19 Nov


Chester Beatty Library, Dublin The Art of Friendship: Japanese Surimono Prints, to 27 Aug.


Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asian Arts, Budapest


When the Gates of Asia Open Up, ongoing; Ukiyo-e,Japanese Wood Carvings from the collection owned by the Count Vay Péter, ongoing; Cindery Peach and Mohammedan Blue : Chinese porcelain exhibition, ongoing. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from Antiquity to the Present, to 1 Oct; From Kabul to Kolkata: Highlights of Indian Painting in the Fitzwilliam Museum, to 3 Sept


Guimet Museum, Paris


Holy: Carte Blance with Prune Nourry, to 18 Sept; Porcelain Highlights from the Ise Collection, 21 June to 4 Sept; Japanese Landscapes from Hokusai to Hasui, 21 June to 2 Oct; Gold objects from MNAAG Collection, 21 June to 4 Sept Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2 or 3 Tigers by Ho Tzu Nyen Hepworth Wakefiled, Wakefiled Howard Hodgki: Painting India,1 July to 8 Oct


House of Illustration, London Anime Architecture: Backgrounds of Japan, to 10 Sept Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Sheela Gowda, 16 Jun-3 Sept. Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris 100 Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art, to 2 Jul; Islamic Treasures in Africa: 13 centuries of history, to 30 Jul Lady Lever Art Gallery, Merseyside Edo Pop: Japanese Prints, to 24 Sept MAK, Vienna


Reinstallation: MAK Permanent Collection Asia, ongoing.


Museo d’Arte Orientale, Torino From ancient to the new Silk Road, to 2 Jul. Museum Center Vapriikki, Finland Forbidden City: Life in the Court of Chinese Emperors, to 1 Oct. Museum der Kulturen, Basel Asian art collections. Museum of Asian Art, Nice Asian art collections; The Sculptors of Mahabalipuram: Photographs by Séverine Moureaud, to 24 July. Museum of East Asian Art, Bath Hong Ling - Selected, to 2 July. Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin Faces of China. Chinese Portrait Painting of the Ming and Qing dynasty (1368-1912), from 12 Oct 2017 to 7 Jan 2018


Museum of East Asian Art, Stockholm Permanent collections of Asian art. National Portrait Gallery, London Double Take: Akram Zaatari and the Arab Image Foundation, to 3 Sept


Palais de Tokyo, Paris


Hayoun Kwon, 14 June to 10 Sept Rietberg Museum, Zurich The Many Faces of an Ideal: Women in Indian Paintings, to 17 Sept; Alice Boner in India, 23 Sept to 14 Jan 2018 Troppen Museum, Amsterdam Aleppo, opened April; Permanent collections of Asian art. Victoria & Albert Museum, London Permanent Asian and Islamic Collections.


Asia


Adachi Museum Of Art, Chugoku Animal Guide Book, to 30 Aug Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ongoing Chinese Collections Asia Society, Hong Kong Breathing Space: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong, to 9 Jul Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore


South Asia and the Islamic World: Highlights from the Collection, to 31 Aug; Ancient Religions, ongoing; The Scholar in Chinese Culture, ongoing; A Space for Contemporary Art, ongoing; Tang Shipwreck, ongoing Idimitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo Utensils of Cha no yu: The World of Japanese and Chinese Tastes, to 4 June; The Winds of Suiboku- ga: Hasegawa Tohaku and Sesshu, 10 June to 17 July; Forms and Expressions of Prayer: Introduction to Buddhist Art, 25 July to 3 Sept Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka


Chasing Light, to 17 June Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, Reunions: A Collector’s Journey, to Feb 2018.


Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto Kyoto National Museum 120th Blades of Brilliance: Celebrated Japanese Swords from the Naga Fujio Collection, 13 Jun-17 Jul; The Connoisseur’s Eye: Painting and Calligraphy from the Ban Minoru Collection, 13 Jun-17 Jul Anniversary Commemorative Special Exhibition National Treasures: Masterpieces of Japan, 3 oct to 26 Nov Maritime Museum, Hong Kong To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Ancient Maritime and Overland Trade, to 30 June Miho Museum, Shigaraki


The Beauties of Japanese Glass: The Bindeisha Collection, to 18 Jun; Bliss of the Anicent Orient: From Egypt to China, to 18 June Mori Art Museum, Tokyo N. S. Harsha: Charming Journey, to 11 June; MAM Collection 004: Imagining the Unknown Stories, to 11 June; MAM Screen 005: Niwa Yoshinori Selected Video Works, to 11 June.


National Gallery, Singapore Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Danh Vo, to 31 Aug; Wu Guanzhong: A Walk Through Nature, to Dec; Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hai Lou Collection, to 4 Dec; Strokes of Life: The Art of Chen Chong Swee, to 4 Dec. National Museum of China, Beijing A History of the World in 100 Objects, to May; Permanent exhibitions. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Mastery of an Art: Van Cleef & Arpels: High Jewelry and Japanese Crafts, to 6 Aug. Nezu Museum, Tokyo Technique and Expression in Japanese Traditional Art: Decorated Paper, to 2 Jul


Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Imaginarium, to 27 Aug Suntory Museum, Tokyo The First Showing of the Box with Fusenryo Design in Mother-of-Pearl Inlay and Maki-e (a National Treasure) after Its Restoration A Sacred Treasure Box, to 17 Jul. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Celebrating 130 Years of Amity between Japan and Thailand Thailand: Brilliant Land of the Buddha, 4 Jul to 27 Aug; Chanoyu - The Arts of Tea Ceremony, The Essence of Japan, to 4 June. UMAG, Hong Kong


Robert Lettner: In Dialogue with the Chinese Landscape, to 18 Jun.


Australia


Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney


Glorious: earthly pleasures and heavenly realms, through 2018; Passion and procession: art of the Philippines, 24 Jun-12 Nov. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, ‘Ilm: Art and Knowledge in Islam, ongoing; Awakening: Art of Buddhism, to 1 Oct.


Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Brisbane


Anish Kapoor, to 3 Dec. Events


Denver Art Museum, Denver Asian Art Association and Curator’s Circle Lecture Series: What was the Terracotta Army For?, 6.30pm, 21 June.


Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles Symposium: Pathways to Korean Art History, 9am, 3 June; Concert: Aditya Prakash Ensemble, 3pm, 18 June. Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C., Beyond Images of Beauty: Women’s Lives in Edo-Period Japan, 2pm, 10 June; Utamaro: Songs from the Japanese Musical, 1pm, 30 June. Japan Society, New York City Annual Sake Lecture & Tasting: 20th Anniversary, 6.30pm, 5 June; Edo Extravaganza, 9pm, 9 June. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, 2pm, 18 June.


Rubin Museum of Art, New York City Voices of the Himalayas: Language, Culture, and Belonging in Immigrant New York,, 6.30pm, 7 June; Tendor + Tenzin Choeying: Spiral Music, 6pm, 7 June; Sanjoy Banerjee with Namami Karmakar: Rhythms of India, 7pm, 9 June; Sumie Kaneko + Haruna Fukazawa: Spiral Music, 6pm, 21 June; Sinha, Lowe + Yeh: Music, 7pm, 23 June; Sound is Divine: Concert, 9.30pm, 23 June. British Museum, London


Special event: Live woodblock printing by Takahashi Atelier, 4pm, 2 June; Lecture: The wave that swept the world: Hokusai, Japonisme and the west, 6.30pm, 2 June; Film: British Museum presents Hokusai, 3pm, 4 June; Gallery talk: Hokusai’s Edo period: woodblock printing in 19th- century Japan, 1.15pm, 6 June; Joint Middle East Department/Palestine Exploration Fund Lecture Series: 20 years of survey and excavations at Zoara in the Ghor es-Safi, Jordan 1997–2017, 4pm, 8 June; Lecture: Curator’s introduction to Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave, 1.30pm, 10 June; Gallery talk: Hokusai in the world, then and now, 1.15pm, 16 June; The Vladimir G Lukonin Memorial Lecture: Over the hills and far away: interaction across southern Iran in late prehistory, 6pm, 16 June; Performance: Music of Iraq, 6pm, 16 June; Gallery talk: Islam expressed in art, 1.15pm, 21 June; Lecture: Hokusai’s thought: worlds seen and unseen, 1.30pm, 22 June. Nezu Museum, Tokyo Aoyama tea ceremony, 10am, 3 June; Lecture: Appreciation of antique art for the first time, 1.30pm, 9 June; Exhibition lecture: Kagaku Kitagawa’s decoration of paper, 2pm, 17 June.


Last Chance


Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Saints and Kings, Arts, Culture, and Legacy of the Sikhs, to 25 June


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