46 Listings North America


Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC Color Across Asia, to 13 May. Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Parvis Tanavili, to 30 Apr; Listening to Art, Seeing Music, to 22 Apr; The World of teh Fatimids, 10 Mar to 2 Jul Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Ceramics, to 27 May; A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Japanese Prints, to 1 July. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL India Modern: The Paintings of M. F. Husain, to 4 March; Xu Longsen: Light of Heaven, to 24 June; Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes, to 13 May.


Asia Society, New York City, NY In Focus: An Assembly of Gods, to 25 March; Masterpieces From the Asia Society Museum Collection, to 25 March; Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting, to 20 May.


Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Philippine Art: Collecting Art, Collecting Memories, to 11 March; Traces of the Past and Future: Fu Shen’s Paintings and Calligraphy, to 2 Sept; Divine Bodies, 9 March-29 Jul. Bard Graduate Center, New York Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles, to 8 July. BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA


Buddhist Realms, to 22 Apr 2018. Brooklyn Museum, New York Ahmed Mater: Mecca Journey, to 8 Apr


Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA Empress Dowager Cixi: Selections from the Summer Palace, to 11 March; Sacred Realms: Temple Murals by Shashi Dhoj Tulachan From the Gayle and Edward P. Roski Collection, ongoing. Charles B Wang Center, NYC, NY Potasia: Potatoism in the East, 15 March-15 June; Space Drawing by Sun K. Kwak, long-term installation China Institute, New York Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographerls Lens, to 2 Dec Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China, to 12 Aug. Crow Museum, Dallas, TX


Earthly Splendor: Korean Ceramics from the Collection, from 20 Jan. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,TX The Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery, to Apr 2020; Asian Textiles: Art and Trade Along the Silk Road, to 9 Dec. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Devoted: Visual Performances of Faith, to 19 Aug; Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami, to 13 May. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Linking Asia: Art Trade, and Devotion, to 1 Apr; Ganesha: The Playful Protector, to 28 Oct; Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie, to 8 July. Field Museum, Chicago, IL Ongoing: Cyrus Tang Hall of China, Hall of Jades,.


Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C., Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, to 29 Nov 2020; Feast Your Eyes: A Taste of Luxury Iran, ongoing; Engaging the Senses: Arts of the Islamic World, ongoing; Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China, ongoing; Setting the Bar: Arts of the Song dynasty, ongoing; Center of the World: China and the Silk Road, ongoing; Promise of Paradise: Ancient Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, ongoing; Art and Industry: China’s Ancient Houma Foundry, ongoing; Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades, ongoing; Secrets of the Lacquer Buddham to 10 June; Resound: Ancient Bells of China, to 2020; Xu Bing: Monkeys Grasp for the Moon, ongoing; Subodh Gupta: Terminal, ongoing; Ancient and Alive: Japan’s Native Gods, ongoing; The Power of Words in an Age of Crisis, ongoing; Imperfectly Beautiful: Inventing Japanese Ceramic Style, ongoing; In the Shadow of an Apocalypse, ongoing; The Beginnings of Buddhism in Japan, ongoing; Rediscovering Korea’s Past, ongoing; Body Image, ongoing; Gods, Companions, and Devotees, ongoing; The Glazed Elephant: Ceramic Traditions in Cambodia, ongoing; Power in Southeast Asia, ongoing.


Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Highlights from the Asian Collection, ongoing; Show Me the Mini, 25 Nov; Conserving Treasures: Jamini Roy and Modern Indian Art, to 11 March.


ASIAN ART MARCH 2018


J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles A Queen’s Treasure from Versaille: Marie-Antionette’s Japanese Lacquer, to 6 Jan, 2019; Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India, 13 March to 27 May Guggenheim Museum, New York Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, to 8 May


Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis


Mastering Materials: Rare Objects from the IMA’s Asian Collection, to 15 Jul; Hiroshige: Famous Views in the 60-Odd Provinces, to 1 Apr.


Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Staten Island, NY Infinite Compassion: Avalokiteshvara in Asian Art, to 30 Sept. Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles Sadako’s Crane, ongoing; Kaiju vs Heroes: Mark Nagata’s Journey through the World of Japanese Toys, to Sept. Japan Society, New York A Giant Leap: The Transformation of Hasegawa Tohaku, 9 March-6 May Herbert F Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY Debating Art: Chinese Intellectuals at the Crossroads, to 8 July


Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR


Long Nineteenth Century in Japanese Woodblock Prints, to 1 July. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX From the Lands of Asia: The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, to 19 Aug. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA A Tale of Two Persian Carpets (One by One): The Ardabil and Coronation Carpets, to 8 July; Wu Bin’s Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone, to 24 June; In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, to 9 Sept. The Met Breuer, New York City Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir


Don’t miss The Getty Center, Los Angeles


Marie-Antionette’s Japanese Lacquer, to 6 January, 2019


the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama, to 22 July. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics A Collaboration with Nobuo Tsuji and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to 1 April; Black and White: Japanese Modern Art, to 1 April; Japanese Prints: The Psychedelic Seventies, to 12 August. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese Buddhist Gilt Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection, to 13 May; Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, to 30 Dec.


The Metrropolitan Museum, New York Diamond Mountains: Travel and Longing in Korean Art, to 20 May


Singh Photographs, to 2 Jan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City


A Passion for Jade: Heber Bishop and His Collection, to 22 July; Spirited Creatures: Animal Representations in Chinese Silk and Lacquer, to 22 July; Celebrating the Year of the Dog, to 4 July; Crowns of the Vajra Masters: Ritual Art of Nepal, to 16 Dec; Japanese Arms and Armor from the Collection of Etsuko and John Morris, to 6 Jan 2019; Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, to 6 Jan 2019. Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT


Robert F Reiff Gallery of Asian Art, ongoing.


Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA Indonesian Shadow Puppets, to 18 March; Kantha: Recycled and Embroidered Textiles of Bengal, to 25 March.


Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN


Miao Clothing and Jewelry from China, to 1 July; A World of Radiant Awakening: Buddhism and the Painting of China, to 18 March; In Focus: Contemporary Japan, to 12 August; Boundless Peaks: Ink Paintings by Minol Araki, to 24 June; Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty: Concept and Design by Robert Wilson, to 27 May; Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture, to 24 June; Mizusashi: Japanese Water Jars from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection, to 13 May; Excavating


Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City Islamic Art: Global Connections and Exchange, to 17 June; Dreams of the Kings: A Jade Suit for Eternity, to 1 April; Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection, to 18 March; More than Words: The Art of Calligraphy across Asia, to 8 July; Revealing a Hidden Treasure: A Jain Shrine from India, to 18 April. New Orleans Museum of Art New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, to 13 May. Newark Museum, Newark, N.J Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia, 14 March to Feb 2019; Ongoing: From Meiji to Modern: Japanese Art Goes Global, The Art of Japan, Korea: Land of the Diamond Mountains, Red Luster, ongoing; Tibet Collection, Gods, Guides and Sacred Symbols of India, Influences of the Indic World: India and Nepal, Southeast Asia: Art of a Cultural Crossroads, Tiaras to Toe Rings: Asian Ornaments Buddhism, Taoism, Confucius and the Cult of Mao: China’s Religious Arts;China’s China: Porcelain, Earthenware, Stoneware & Glazes, ongoing; Musical Arts of Asia, to 26 Feb Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA MegaCity: India’s Culture of the Streets, to 30 June; Importing Splendor: Luxuries from China, to 30 June; Double Happiness: Celebration in Chinese Art, to 30 June.


Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA A Teahouse for Philadelphia, ongoing; Textured Material: Korean Contemporary Art, ongoing; Chinese Buddhist Art, ongoing.


Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ Warriors in World War I, Sikh Art and Heritage, to 15 April; Yayoi Kusama: You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies, to December 2020.


Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI


Asian Galleries, ongoing. Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads, to 1 June. Rubin Museum of Art, New York Masterworks of Himalayan Art, to 26 March; Sacred Spaces The Road to... and the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, to 15 Oct; Gateway to Himalayan Art, to 28 May.


San Antonio Musum, San Antonio, TX The Magic of Clay and Fire: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics, to spring 2018. The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, Visible Vaults, to 12 Nov 2019; Art of East Asia, to 31 Dec 2019. San Jose Museum of Art, CA The Propeller Group, to 25 March. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Awakened Ones: Buddhas of Asia, ongoing; Porcelain Room, ongoing; Ai Weiwei: Colored Vases, ongoing; Europe Imagines the East, ongoing; Pure Amusements: Wealth, Leisure, and


Look out for


Culture in Late Imperial China, ongoing; Talents and Beauties: Art of Women in Japan, to 15 Jul. Smart Museum, Chicago, IL Asian Art Galleries, ongoing. Tibet House, New York City


Divine Feminine: New Masterpieces from Nepal, 15 March to 11 May Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, to 6 May Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT


Asian collections, ongoing; Japan’s Global Baroque, 1550–1650, to 21 May. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MA Arts of Asia, to 30 Sept 2020. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,MA Dangerous Liaisons Revisted: Art and Music Inspired by the Chinese Tang Court, to 22 April.


Europe


Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland Collections, ongoing. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Old Traditions New Visions: Art in India and Pakistan after 1947, to 8 March; Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain, to 15 Apr; The Tale of Prince Vessantara, 27 March-9 Sept. Baur Foundation, Geneva Japanese and Chinese collecitons, ongoing.


British Museum, London


Living with Gods, peoples, places and worlds beyond, to 8 April; Permanent Asian and Islamic art collections. Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London Music, Faith and Diplomacy Along the Silk Road, to 23 March. Centre Pompidou, Metz


Japanorama: New vision on art since 1970, to 5 March; Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago, to 28 May Cernuschi Museum, Paris Entre la chine et l’Occident, autour du legs Jacques Touron, to 18 March; Parfums de Chine, to 26 August. Durham University Oriental Museum Khyal: Music and Imagination, to 3 June. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin The Art of the Book, ongoing Daiwa Foundation, London Setsuko Ono, to 9 March


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.; Sanghay – Shanghai Parallel Diversities Between East and West, to April 2018. Guimet Museum, Paris


Enquêtes vagabondes, le voyage illustré d’Émile Guimet en Asie, to 12 Marchl Daimyo: Seigneurs de la guerre au Japon, to 13 May; Caractères d’Asie, Trésors de la bibliothèque, 15 March to 28 May.


Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris Pour un musée en Palestine, 10 March-13 May.


Japanmuseum SieboldHuis, Leiden Masked Warriors. Battle Stage of the Samurai, to 27 May Kunsthalle, Berlin


Fahrelnissa Zeid, to 25 March MAK, Vienna


MAK Permanent Collection Asia, ongoing.


Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester South Asian Design, to 27 May. Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin Asian art collections. Museum der Kulturen, Basel Asian art collections.


Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Another India, to 22 Apr. Museum of Asian Art, Nice


Samouraï: de la guerre à la voie des arts, to 25 March; Statuaires et Sites Sacrés du Japon, to 28 May. Museum of East Asian Art, Bath Dressed to Impress: Netuske and Japanese Men’s Fashions, to 22 April. Museum of East Asian Art, Stockholm Asian art collections.


Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm


Asian art collections. Prado, Madrid


Cai Guo-Qiang, to 3 April. The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh Splendours of the Subcontinent: A


Prince’s Tour of India 1875-6, to 22 Apr. Rietberg Museum, Zurich Wealth, Good Fortune and Longevity - Chinese New Year Prints, to 6 May. Science Museum, London Illuminating India, to 31 March. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin Vis à Vis: Asia Meets Europe, to April 2019.


Jan van der Togt Museum, Amstelveen Walasse Ting, the Amsterdam Years, to 15 April Troppen Museum, Amsterdam Permanent collections of Asian art. Victoria & Albert Museum, London Chinese Snuff Bottles in the V&A, to 31 May; Lustrous Surfaces: Lacquer in Asia and Beyond, to 16 Septl Permanent Asian and Islamic art Collections. Wellcome Collection, London Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine, to 8 Apr. Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna Fascinated by Indonesia, to 30 Mar; At the Threshold of the Orient, to 31 Mar; A Village in the Mountains, to 31 Mar; A New Perception – View on China, to 30 Jun; 1873 – Japan comes to Europe, to 30 Jun.


The Whitworth, Manchester South Asian Modernists 1953-63, to 5 April.


Asia


Adachi Museum of Art, Chugoku Ideal Expression of People in Japanese Painting, to 31 May. Artcourt Gallery, Osaka


Hitoshi Nomura: The History of Space- Time 3 Stages Accomplished by Cosmic Sensibility, or Infinitely Distant Memories, to 17 March.


Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore Ancient Religions, ongoing; The Scholar in Chinese Culture, ongoing; A Space for Contemporary Art, ongoing; Tang Shipwreck, ongoing. Bangkok Museum, Bangkok Four newly refurbished galleries opened to the public in Feb 2018


Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection, to 3 June. Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo Japan CUTE !, to 25 March. Iwami Art Museum, Chugoku Permanent collections. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka In The Foreign Sky: Japanese Artists and Asia, to 17 April. Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, The Secret Garden: Symbols of Nature in Wood, Silver and Gold, to 4 March; The Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia, 20 March-24 June. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto Permanent collections. 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 A General Collection Person, Face, Form, 21 March-24 June Miho Museum, Shigaraki Sarugaku Masks from Yamato, Omi, and the Area around Hakusan, 10 March-3 June.


Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Materials and Boundaries -


Handiwirman Saputra + Chiba Masaya, to 1 April; Yamamoto Atsushi, to 1 April; Dane Mitchell, to 1 April. National Gallery, Singapore Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna, to 11 March; Light To Night | Flowers and People - Dark by teamLab, to 12 Aug; Light To Night | The House is Crumbling by Pinaree Sanpitak, to 1 April; Light To Night | Walk, Walk, Walk: Search, Deviate, Reunite by teamLab, to 12 Aug.


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


National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Period: Making and Designing Meiji Arts and Crafts, 20 March to 20 May. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Kumagai Morikazu: The Joy of Life, to 21 Mar.


Nezu Museum, Tokyo


A Bouquet of Incense Containers, to 31 March.


Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto


Guimet Museum, Paris Curious Travellers, Images of Emile Guimet’s Joiurnieys, to 12 March


The 40th Memorial of Shoji Hamada from Tamesaburo Yamamoto Collection, to 8 April.


Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa A Century of Art Journey through 100 Masterpieces, to 11 Mar. Sagawa Art Museum, Kansai Raku Kichizaemon X: The 1970s Generation Today, to 11 Mar. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Cinerama: Art and the Moving Image in Southeast Asia, to 18 Mar. Sun Museum, Hong Kong The Art of Shen Ping: Compositions of Two Lands, to 3 March. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Treasures from Ninnaji Temple and Omuro, to 11 March; Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia, to 18 March. UMAG, Hong Kong Nestorian Crosses of the Yuan Dynasty, to Dec 2022. Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art


Australia


Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Glorious: earthly pleasures and heavenly realms, through 2018; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, NGV Triennial, to 15 April 2018 Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Brisbane


Problem/Wisdom,Thai Art in 1990s, to 12 Aug


Events


Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Divine Bodies Presents: Body and Expression with Cali & Co. Dance Company, 24 March, 2-4pm Charles B. Wang Center, New York Lecture: The Motif of Potatoes in Korean Media (Old and New), 22 March, 1pm. Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.Gallery Talk: Arts of Indonesia, 8 March, 1pm; Nowruz: A Persian New Year Celebration, 11 March, 11am; Persian Music: Classical and New, 11 March, 1pm and 4pm; Images from India: Sunil Gupta on Photography as Critical Practice, 15, 6.30pm; Symposium: Studies of Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas, 25 March, 6-9pm; Symposium: Studies of Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas, 26 March, 9am- 12pm; Gallery Talk: Japanese Art, 29 March, 1pm; Film: Japanese Classics: “Onibaba”, 7 March, 2pm; Film: Film: “Tokyo Idols”, 16 March, 7pm; Environmental Film Festival: “A Beautiful Star”, 18 March, 2pm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Nowruz 2018: The Persian New Year Festival, 17 March, 10am-5pm. Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto Gallery Talk, every second and fourth Sunday, 2pm.


Rubin Museum of Art, New York Kento Iwasaki: Spiral Music, 14 March, 6pm; Kilung Rinpoche and György Buzsáki: Is Reincarnation a Buddhist Time Machine?, 18 March, 3pm; Sameer Gupta and Ross Hammond: Spiral Music, 28 March, 6pm; Awakening Practice: Morning Mindfulness in the Shrine Room, 31 March, 11.30am. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Lecture: Experience Japanese Culture: The Noh Play Arashiyama at the Tokyo National Museum, 30 March, 6.40pm; Lecture: Kuroda Seiki and Western- style Painting of the Meiji Era: From the Viewpoint of East Asian Fine Art, 31 March, 1.30pm.


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