34 Listings North America


Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Parvis Tanavoli, to 2 Oct; Art of the East: Highlights of Islamic Art from the Bruschettini Collection, 23 Sept to 21 Jan 2018


Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Chinese Paintings, to 10 Dec; A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Persian and South Asian Paintings and Manuscripts, to 10 Dec; A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Japanese Prints, to 27 May 2018 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL India Modern: The Paintings of M. F. Husain, to 4 March; City and Country: Views of Urban and Rural Japan, 14 Oct-31 Dec. Asia Society, New York City, NY After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History, to 21 Jan 2018 Masterpieces from the Asia Society Museum Collection, to 7 Jan 2018; Masterpieces from the Asia Society Museum Collection, to 7 Jan 2018 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, The Sculptural Turn: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Kempner and Stein Collection, to 26 Nov; Flower Power, to 1 Oct; A Journey into the Great Unknown, to 29 Oct; Philippine Art: Collecting Art, Collecting Memories, to 11 Mar. Bard Graduate Center, New York John Lockwood Kipling Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London, to 7 Jan 2018


BAMPFA, Berkeley


Buddhist Realms, to 8 Oct; A Golden Age of Chinese Cinema, 1947–52, to 21 Oct; Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou, 25 Oct-28 Jan 2018. 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, to 11 March 2018 The Broad Museum, Los Angeles Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors, 21 Oct to 1 Jan 2018. Charles B Wang Center, New York The Way of Tea in Asia, to 10 Dec; OM Lab, to 10 Dec; Simplicity Over Complexity, long-term installation China Institute, New York Dreams of the Kings: A Jade Suit for Eternity, Treasures of the Han Dynasty from Xuzhou, to 12 Nov Crow Museum, Dallas, TX Hidden Nature: Sopheap Pich, to 7 Jan 2018; Styled with Poise: Figures in Japanese Paintings and Prints, to 7 Jan; 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; Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 1 Oct-25 Feb 2018. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Robert and Lisa Kessler Collection, to 1 Oct; Ganesha: The Playful Protector, 1 Oct to 28 Oct, 2018


Field Museum, Chicago, IL Cyrus Tang Hall of China, ongoing; Hall of Jades, ongoing. Fowler Museum UCLA, Los Angeles How to Make the Universe Right: The Art of Priests and Shamans from Vietnam and Southern China, to 7 Jan; Conserving Treasures: Jamini Roy and Modern Indian Art, to 11 March; ClayCurvyCool, ongoing Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C. Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan, to 29 Oct; Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt, from 14 Oct; Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia, from 14 Oct; Resound: Ancient Bells of China, from 14 Oct; Subodh Gupta: Terminal, from 14 Oct; Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran, from 14 Oct. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Highlights from the Asian Collection, ongoing; Show Me the Mini, to 25 Nov.


ASIAN ART OCTOBER 2017


Honolulu Museum of Arts, Honolulu, Maki Haku and the Poetry of Form, to 22 Oct.


Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN


Elegance from the East: New Insights from Old Porcelain, to 22 Oct; Mastering Materials: Rare Objects from the IMA’s Asian Collection, 20 Nov-15 Jul; Hiroshige: Famous Views in the 60-Odd Provinces, to 1 Apr Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Sadako’s Crane, ongoing; Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo, to 25 Feb Japan Society, New York


Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, 20 Oct to 17 Nov


Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY Power, Haunting, and Resilience, to 17 Dec.


Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR


Graphic Ideology: Cultural Revolution Propaganda from China, to 31 Dec. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA


Chinese Snuff Bottles from Southern Californian Collectors, to 1 Oct; Unexpected Light: Works by Young Il Ahn, to 1 Oct; Polished to Perfection: Japanese Cloisonné from the Collection of Donald K. Gerber and Sueann E. Sherry, to 4 Feb; A Tale of Two Persian Carpets (One by One): The Ardabil and Coronation Carpets, to 8 July 2018.


Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY


Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer, 14th to 19th Century, to 9 Oct; From the Imperial Theater: Chinese Opera Costumes of the18th


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Europe


Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland Material Traces: Conserving and Exploring Textiles, to 12 Nov Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Collecting the Past: Scholars’ Taste in Chinese Art, to 22 Oct; Old Traditions New Visions: Art in India and Pakistan after 1947, to 8 March 2018; Contemporary Japanese Tea Wares, to 1 Jan 2018; Imagining the Divine, 19 Oct-18 Feb 2018. Baur Foundation, Geneva Yoshikawa Masamichi, to 15 Oct British Museum, London


British Museum, London


Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia, to 14 January 2018


Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, to 28 Jan 2018.


Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City Revealing a Hidden Treasure: A Jain Shrine from India, to 18 Apr 2018; More than Words: The Art of Calligraphy across Asia, from 21 Oct. New Orleans Museum of Art Regina Scully | Japanese Landscape: Inner Journeys, to 8 Oct; 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: 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.


Metropolitan Museum, New York Landscape Traditions in China, to 8 October


and 19th Centuries, to 9 Oct; Colors of the Universe: Chinese Hardstone Carvings, to 9 Oct; Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, to 4 Feb 2018; Arms and Armor from the Islamic World, to 3 Dec; Cosmic Buddhas in the Himalayas, to 10 Dec; Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, to 6 Jan 2019; Portable Storage: Tribal Weavings from the Collection of William and Inger Ginsberg, to 7 May 2018; Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs, 11 Oct-2 Jan.


Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA Kanban: Traditional Shop Signs of Japan, to 8 Oct; Indonesian Shadow Puppets, to 18 March; Portable Storage: Tribal Weavings from the Collection of William and Inger Ginsberg, to 12 Nov; Kantha: Recycled and Embroidered Textiles of Bengal, 28 Oct-25 March. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN A World of Radiant Awakening: Buddhism and the Painting of China, to 5 Nov; Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture, 24 June 2018; Boundless Peaks: Ink Paintings by Minol Araki, to 24 June 2018. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston China’s 8 Brokens: Puzzles of the Treasured Past, to 29 Oct; An Enchanted Land A Century of Indian Paintings at the MFA, to 7 Jan


Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX


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 Designing Japan, ongoing. Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet, to 18 Feb 2018; Warriors or World War 1, Sikh Art and Heritage, 18 Nov to 15 April 2018 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Designing Traditions Biennial V: Student Explorations in the Asian Textile Collection, to 14 Jan 2018; Asian Galleries, ongoing. Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads, 1 June Rubin Museum of Art, New York Henri Cartier-Bresson, India in Full Frame, to 29 Jan 2018; Gateway to Himalayan Art, to 11 Dec; Sacred Spaces with the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, to 16 Oct; The World is Sound, to 8 Jan 2018; Masterworks of Himalayan Art, to 26 March 2018. San Antonio Musum, San Antonio TX The Magic of Clay and Fire: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics, through autumn 2017


San Jose Museum of Art, CA The Propeller Group, 27 Oct to 25 March 2018.


Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Story-Telling: Narrative Paintings in Asian art, opens 1 Oct Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Common Pleasures: Art of Urban Life in Edo Japan, to 22 Oct; Ongoing: Awakened Ones: Buddhas of Asia, ongoing; Porcelain Room; Europe Imagines the East; Pure Amusements: Wealth, Leisure, and Culture in Late Imperial China Smart Museum, Chicago, IL Asian Art Galleries, ongoing Solomon R Guggenheim, New York Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, 6 Oct to 7 Jan 2018 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT


Artists in Exile: Expressions of Hope, to 31 Dec; Asian collections, ongoing Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang, to 12 Nov.


Living histories recent acquisitions of works on paper by contemporary Arab artists, to 22 Oct; Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia, to 14 Jan 2018. Permanent Asian and Islamic art collections. Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London Behind The Indian Boom, 13 Oct-16 Dec.; Egyptian Moulids, Fairgrounds Of The Faithful, 12 Oct to 16 Dec Bozar, Brussels


Ancestors, Indonesia, 11 Oct to 14 Jan Centre Pompidou, Paris


Japan-ness:Architecture and urbanism in Japan since 1945, to 8 Jan 2018; Japanorama: New vision on art since 1970, 20 Oct-5 March 2018. Cernuschi Museum, Paris Lee Ungno, the Man of Crowds, to 19 Nov Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Preserverd in Partnership: Treasures of Japanese Art, to 7 Jan.


Durham University Oriental Museum Resilience within the Rubble:


Reconstructing the Kasthamandap and its past after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, to 28 Jan 2018.


Edinburgh University Library Highlands to Hindustan: Indian Art in University of Edinburgh Collections, to 4 Nov 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. Guimet Museum, Paris


Ascetics, Sultans and Maharajajs, 19 Oct to 13 Feb


Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Jiro Takamatsu: The Temperature of Sculpture, to 22 Oct Hepworth Wakefiled, Wakefiled Howard Hodgki: Painting India, to 8 Oct Horiman Museum, London Pani, to 28 Nov; India Unplugged, to 7 Jan 2018


Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris Christians in the Orient, to 14 Jan 2018, 2nd Photography Biennial, to 12 Nov; Carte blanche à Tahar Ben Jelloun, to 7 Jan 2018. Lews Castle, Stornaway


The Mackenzie Indian Collection, to 18 Nov MAK, Vienna


Reinstallation: MAK Permanent Collection Asia, ongoing.


Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Memories of Partition, to Feb 2018; Celebrating Ganesha, to 8 Jan 2018; Reena Saini Kallat, to 25 Feb 2018. Museo d’Art e Orientale, Turino Kimono. Il filo di seta che lega il Mao e il Castello di Racconigi al Filatoio Rosso di Caraglio, to 1 Oct. 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 Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Another India, to 22 Apr 2018. Museum of Asian Art, Nice Samuari, to 7 Jan 2018 Museum of East Asian Art, Bath Dressed to Impress: Netuske and Japanese Men’s Fashions, 4 Nov to 22 April 2018 Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin Faces of China. Chinese Portrait Painting of the Ming and Qing dynasty (1368-1912), 12 Oct to 7 Jan 2018 Museum of East Asian Art, Stockholm permanenet collections


Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm,


Palaces and jungle – Miniature paintings from India 1600s-1800s, to 1 Oct Prado, Madrid


Cai Guo-Qiang, 25 Oct to 3 April 2018 Rietberg Museum, Zurich Alice Boner in India, to 14 Jan 2018 Science Museum, London


Illuminating India, 4 Oct-31 March 2018. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin


Vis à Vis: Asia Meets Europe, to 30 Apr 19 Tate Modern, London Fahrelnissa Zeid, to 8 Oct Troppen Museum, Amsterdam Permanent collections of Asian art. University of Edinburgh Library Highlands to Hindustan: Indian Art in Uni of Edinburgh Collections, to 4 Nov Victoria & Albert Museum, London Contemporary KoreanCeramics, to 11 Feb 2018


The Whitworth, Manchester Raqib Shaw, to 1 Nov


Asia


Adachi Museum Of Art, Chugoku 80th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Order of Culture, to 30 Nov Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


A Field in Bloom: Highlights of Chinese Art to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the Department of Fine Arts, CUHK, to 3 Dec; Phoenix Reborn: Chu Jades Excavated from Hubei, 21 Oct-25 Feb 2018. Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore Ancient Religions, ongoing; The Scholar in Chinese Culture, ongoing; A Space for Contemporary Art, ongoing; Tang Shipwreck, ongoing Idimitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo The Art of Edo Rimpa, to 5 Nov; Styles of Calligraphy II, 11 Nov to 17 Dec Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Commemoration of the Sister City Relationship between Yangon City and Fukuoka City Welcome to Art in Myanmar!, to 9 Jan 2018 Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, Reunions: A Collector’s Journey, to Feb 2018.


Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto National Treasures: Masterpieces of Japan, 3 Oct to 26 Nov Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, Reunions: A Collector’s Journey, to Feb 2018; The Secret Garden: Symbols of Nature in Wood, Silver and Gold, to 4 March.


Maritime Museum, Hong Kong To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Ancient Maritime and Overland Trade, to 30 June Menard Art Museum, Komaki Masterpieces from the Collection of Menard Art Museum, to 24 Dec. Miho Museum, Shigaraki


20th Anniversary Exhibition: Shangri-La, Tracing the Footsteps of IM Pei and the Miho Museum, to 17 Dec Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, to 23 Oct; Laboratory for Chinese Contemporary Photography, to 23 Oct; Weekly Shonen Jump Exhibition VOL. 1 From the first issue to the 1980s: The beginning of the legend, to 15 Oct


National Gallery, Singapore 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


Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, to 4 Dec


National Museum of China, Beijing A History of the World in 100 Objects, to May 2018; Permanent exhibitions of Asian art


National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Koji Kinutani: A Journey of Color and Imagery, to 15 Oct. Nezu Museum, Tokyo


Supporting the Buddhist Imageon to Ceramics: Lotus Flower, Sacred Beast, Deva and Demon, to 22 Oct. Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo Hatanaka Kokyo Collection: Masterpieces of Old Indian Textiles, to 24 Sept Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Think! Contemporary 6 Oct to 29 Oct; Sun Museum, HK, Celestial Cases: Antique Boxes of China, to 2 Dec Suntory Museum, Tokyo


Celebrating a Decade in Roppongi Kano Motonobu: All Under Heaven Bowed to His Brush, to 5 Nov Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Unkei - The Great Master of Buddhist Sculpture, to 26 Nov. UMAG, Hong Kong


Nestorian Crosses from the Yuan dynasty, ongoing Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art, opens 1 Oct.


The Hepworth, Wakefield Howard Hodgkin: Paintings India, to 8 Oct


Australia


Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Glorious: earthly pleasures and heavenly realms, through 2018; Passion and procession: art of the Philippines, to 12 Nov.


Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, ‘Ilm: Art and Knowledge in Islam, ongoing; Awakening: Art of Buddhism, to 1 Oct.


National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Hokusai to 15 Oct, Buddha’s Smile, to 8 Oct


Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Brisbane


Anish Kapoor, to 29 July, 2018. Events


Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Conversation: Contemporary Filipino art with artist Caroline Garcia, 18 Oct, 6.30pm; Talk: ReCollection: Yin Xiuzhen, 19 Oct, 12pm; Lecture: Painting after the mass-produced image: art in 19th-century Iran, 19 Oct, 6pm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Gallery Talk: Verbal Description, The Holy Family in Hindu Art, 17 Oct, 12pm; Gallery Talk: India Modern, The Paintings of M. F. Husain, 19 Oct, 12pm; The Golden Rock of Burma, 26 Oct, 6pm. Asia Society, New York


Film: The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg, 10 Oct, 6.30pm; Symposium: Negotiating Change: Art from Societies in Transition, 20 Oct, 2pm; Performance: Passport In/Passport Out: Stories of Dinh Q. Lê and Tintin Wulia, 20 Oct, 6.30pm; The Art of Henna with Atif Toor, 21 Oct, 1pm;


Asian Art Museum, San Francisco In Conversation with the Propeller Group, 28 Oct, 2pm. BAMPFA, Los Angeles Curator’s Talk: Julia White on Chen Hongshou, 26 Oct, 12pm; Shi-yee Liu and Tamara Bentley on Chen Hongshou, 28 Oct, 1pm.


British Museum, London Talk: Introducing Buddhist Art, 18 Oct, 1.15pm; Silk Road traders: Scythians and Sogdians, 31 Oct, 1.15pm; Lecture Curator’s introduction to the BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia, 12 Oct, 1.30pm; Scythians Late, 13 Oct, 6pm; Conference: Scythians and early nomads from Siberia to the Black Sea, 27 Oct, 10am; Lecture: steppe nomads of Eurasia, 27 Oct, 6.30pm. Freer/Sackler Galleries, Washington IlluminAsia: A Festival of Asian Art, Food, and Cultures, 14-15 Oct. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Feast of India, 13 Oct, 7pm, and 14 Oct, 7pm; Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, 22 Oct, 2pm; Reflections on Raghubir Singh, 27 Oct, 6.30pm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Lecture: An Afternoon with Takashi Murakami, 14 Oct, 2pm. Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Imtiaz Dharker Reads Poems, 20 Oct, 1pm. Manchester Museum, Manchester Collection Bites, 9 Oct, 1.30pm; After Hours with Jason Singh, 11 Oct, 6pm; Rubin Museum of Art, New York Sounds of Transformation: Mantras and Meditation, 4 Oct, 6.15pm; One Mind: Screening with Director Q&A, 7pm, 4 Oct; Talk: Buddha, Mara, and the Question of Evil with Stephen Batchelor, 15 Oct, 4pm; Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats, 25 Oct, 7pm; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose Creative Minds: The Propeller Group, 26 Oct, 7pm. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Symposium: India’s place in photography’s world, 6 Oct, 2pm.


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