22 Listings North America


Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC Color Across Asia, to 13 May. Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, ON The World of the Fatimids, to 2 July. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 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 Xu Longsen: Light of Heaven, to 24 June; Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes, to 13 May; Modern Japanese Portraits, to 1 July. Asia Society, New York City, NY Unknown Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting, to 20 May. Asia Society, Texas, TX


Zheng Chongbin: Clusters of Memory, to 8 Jul.


Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA Traces of the Past and Future: Fu Shen’s Paintings and Calligraphy, to 2 Sept; Divine Bodies, to 29 Jul; A Guided Tour of Hell, to 16 Sept; Testimony, to 10 Jun. Bard Graduate Center, New York Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles, to 8 July. BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA Al Wong: Lost Sister, to 17 June; Master Traces, Transcultural Visions, 16 May-16 Sept.


Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA Sacred Realms: Temple Murals by Shashi Dhoj Tulachan From the Gayle and Edward P. Roski Collection, ongoing; Voyage to Vietnam: Celebrating the Tet Festival, 26 May-19 Aug. Charles B Wang Center, New York City, Potasia: Potatoism in the East, to 15 June; Space Drawing by Sun K. Kwak, long-term installation. China Institute, New York Art of the Mountain: Through the CHinese Photographer’s Lens, to 2 Dec. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA The Art of Revolution, Chinese Propaganda Posters from the Collection of Shaomin Li, to 24 June. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China, to 12 Aug. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, to 30 Sept.


Crow Museum, Dallas, TX


Earthly Splendor: Korean Ceramics from the Collection, to 9 Sept. 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 Ganesha: The Playful Protector, to 28 Oct; Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie, to 8 July. Field Museum, Chicago, IL Cyrus Tang Hall of China, ongoing; Hall of Jades, ongoing.


Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C., To Dye For: Ikats from Central Asia, to 29 July; Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, to 29 Nov 2020; Ongoing: Feast Your Eyes: A Taste of Luxury Iran; Engaging the Senses: Arts of the Islamic World; Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China; Setting the Bar: Arts of the Song dynasty; Center of the World: China and the Silk; Promise of Paradise: Ancient Chinese Buddhist Sculpture; Art and Industry: China’s Ancient Houma Foundry; Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades; Secrets of the Lacquer Buddham to 10 June; Resound: Ancient Bells of China, to 2020; Xu Bing: Monkeys Grasp for the Moon; Subodh Gupta: Terminal; Ancient and Alive: Japan’s Native Gods; The Power of Words in an Age of Crisis, ; Imperfectly Beautiful: Inventing Japanese Ceramic Style; In the Shadow of an Apocalypse; The Beginnings of Buddhism in Japan; Rediscovering Korea’s Past; Body Image, Gods, Companions, and Devotees; The Glazed Elephant: Ceramic Traditions in Cambodia; Power in Southeast Asia J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India, to 24 June; A Queen’s Treasure from Versailles: Marie-Antoinette’s Japanese Lacquer, to 6 Jan 2019. George Tsutakawa Art Gallery, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle Teardrops that Wound, to 20 May. Guggenheim Museum, New York


ASIAN ART MAY 2018


Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, to 8 May; One Hand Clapping, from 4 May. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Highlights from the Asian Collection, ongoing; Show Me the Mini, 25 Nov. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis


Mastering Materials: Rare Objects from the IMA’s Asian Collection, to 15 Jul. 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; hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project, to 28 Oct.


Japan Society, New York, NY A Giant Leap: The Transformation of Hasegawa Tōhaku, to 6 May. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX From the Lands of Asia: The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, to 19 Aug. Herbert F Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY Debating Art: Chinese Intellectuals at the Crossroad, to 8 July. Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN Mastering Materials: Rare Objects from the IMA’s Asian Collection, to 15 Jul. 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


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Asia, to 18 Nov; Secrets of the Lacquer Buddha, to 10 Jun. Tibet House, New York City


Divine Feminine: New Masterpieces from Nepal, to 11 May.


USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, Winds From Fusang: Mexico And China In The Twentieth Century, to 1 Jun. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 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 Last Defense: The Genius of Japanese Meiji Metalwork, to 2 Sept.


Freer/Sackler, Washington DC To Dye For: Ikats from Central Asia, to 29 July


through Landscape Prints by Kawase Hasui, 19 May-5 Aug. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Japanese Prints: The Psychedelic Seventies, to 12 Aug; Black and White: Japanese Modern Art, to 3 Jun. 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; Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India, to 19 Aug; Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs, to 3 June. Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City Islamic Art: Global Connections and Exchange, to 17 June; More than Words: The Art of Calligraphy across Asia, to 8 July; Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection, to 28 July 2019. New Orleans Museum of Art, LA New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, to 13 May.


Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Divine Bodies, Asian sculpture, to 29 July


and Present in Iranian Art, to 9 Sept; Unexpected Light: Works by Young Il Ahn, to 12 Aug.


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; Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, to 6 Jan; Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace, to 28 Oct; Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art, to 20 May.


Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT


Robert F Reiff Gallery of Asian Art Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN


Miao Clothing and Jewelry from China, to 1 July; 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 the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama, to 22 July; New Pictures: Amar Kanwar, Such a Morning, to 12 Aug; Touring Japan


Newark Museum, Newark, N.J Ongoing: From Meiji to Modern: Japanese Art Goes Global, The Art of Japan, Korea: Land of the Diamond Mountains, Red Luster; 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; Dramatic Threads Textiles of Asia, to February 2019. 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 2 Dec; Yayoi Kusama: You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies, to Dec 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 Sacred Spaces The Road to... and the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, to 15 Oct; Gateway to Himalayan Art, to 28 May.


San Antonio Museum, San Antonio, TX The Magic of Clay and Fire: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics, to spring 2018. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, Visible Vaults, to 12 Nov 2019; Art of East Asia, to 31 Dec 2019. 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 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. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Resound: Ancient Bells of China, to 31 Dec 2019; Power in Southeast


Europe


Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland Collections, ongoing. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford The Tale of Prince Vessantara, to 9 Sept; A Century of Women in Chinese Art, 1 May-7 Oct.


Baur Foundation, Geneva Japanese and Chinese collections, ongoing.


British Museum, London Permanent Asian and Islamic art collections. Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872, to June. Centre Pompidou, Paris


Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago, to 28 May. Cernuschi Museum, Paris Parfums de Chine, to 26 August. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin The Art of the Book, ongoing. Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham


Khyal: Music and Imagination, to 3 June. 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; Imaging Korea: Beyond the people land and time, 6 May-28 Aug. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona Itoō Shinsui: Tradition and Modernity, to 20 May.


Guimet Museum, Paris


Daimyo – Seigneurs de la guerre au Japon, to 13 May; Caractères d’Asie, Trésors de la bibliothèque, to 28 May. Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris Pour un musée en Palestine, to 13 May; Dia Al-Azzawi, to 23 Sept; Un œil ouvert sur le monde arabe, 15 May-31 Dec. Japanmuseum SieboldHuis, Leiden Masked Warriors: Battle Stage of the Samurai, to 27 May. Korean Cultural Centre, London Munbangsau: Friends of the Scholar, to 26 May


Louvre-Lens, Lens


Empire of Roses, 19th Century Persian Art, to 23 July MAK, Vienna


Reinstallation: MAK Permanent Collection Asia, ongoing.


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


Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris


Ghosts and Hells - the underworld in Asian art, to 15 Jul. Museum der Kulturen, Basel Asian art collections. Museum of Asian Art, Berlin Asia Meets Europe, to 30 April 2019 Museum of Asian Art, Nice Statuaires et Sites Sacrés du Japon, to 28 May.


Museum of East Asian Art, Bath A Quest for Wellness – Contemporary Chinese Art by Zhang Yanzi, 5 May-12 Nov.


Museum of East Asian Art, Stockholm Asian art collections.


Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm


Asian art collections. Museum Ludwig, Cologne Haegue Yang, ETA 1994-2018, Wolfgang Hahn Prize, to 12 Aug Rietberg Museum, Zurich Wealth, Good Fortune and Longevity - Chinese New Year Prints, to 6 May; Monsters, Devils and Demons, 24 May- 16 Sept.


Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh


Raqib Shaw: Reinventing Old Masters, 19 May to 28 Oct


Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin Vis à Vis: Asia Meets Europe, to April 2019. Troppen Museum, Amsterdam Permanent collections of Asian art. Victoria & Albert Museum, London Chinese Snuff Bottles in the V&A, to 31 May; Permanent Asian and Islamic art Collections. Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna A New Perception – View on China, to 30 Jun; 1873 – Japan comes to Europe, to 30 Jun. World Museum, Liverpool China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors, to 28 Oct The Whitworth, Manchester Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves, to 28 Aug. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield Ai Weiwei: Circles of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 6 May to 10 June; Chiharu Shiota: Beyond Time, to 2 Sept


Asia


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


Art Museum, CUHK - Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong


Legacy of the Heavenly Breeze: The Art of Gao Qifeng, Chao Shao-an and Au Ho-nien, to 13 May. Asia Society, Hong Kong


LOVE Long: Robert Indiana and Asia, to 15 Jul.


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. Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong


Bruce Lee: Kung Fu - Art - Life, to 20 Jul. Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo Song Ceramics — Utensils of Sublime Beauty, to 10 June. Iwami Art Museum, Chugoku Permanent collections. Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta ARTJOG, 4 May-4 June. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto Permanent collections. Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, The Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia, to 24 June. Main Trend Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan Dechun Wu Art Exhibition, to 12 May. 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, to 24 June. Miho Museum, Shigaraki Sarugaku Masks from Yamato, Omi, and the Area around Hakusan, to 3 June. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, to 17 Sept; MAM Collection 007: Invisible Cities, to 17 Sept; MAM Screen 008: Kondoh Akino, to 17 Sept; MAM Project 025: Apichatpong Weerasethakul + Hisakado Tsuyoshi, to 17 Sept. 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 | 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.


National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Period: Making and Designing Meiji Arts and Crafts, to 20 May.


National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The 150th Anniversary of his Birth: Yokoyama Taikan, to 27 May. Nezu Museum, Tokyo


Korin and Kenzan: Brother Artists, Resonating Aesthetics, to 13 May. Osage Hong Kong - Kowloon, Hong Kong The sun teaches us that history is not everything, to 5 May. Sun Museum, Hong Kong


Centre Pompidou, Paris Latiff Mohidin, Pago Pago (1960-1969), to 28 May


Collaborative Paintings by Jao Tsung-I and the Four Masters of the Lingnan School, to 5 May. Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo The Glass that Gallé Adored — Glass from the Qing Imperial Collection, to 1 Jul.


The Palace Museum, Beijing The Palace Museum Ge Ware Exhibition, to 31 Aug. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Chanoyu - The Arts of Tea Ceremony, The Essence of Japan, to 4 June. Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre, Luang Prabang, Laos


Seeds of Culture: From Living Plants to Handicrafts, to 15 Sept. UMAG, Hong Kong


Bosshard in China: Documenting Social Change in the 1930s, to 5 Aug; Nestorian Crosses of the Yuan Dynasty, to Dec 2022. Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo Here, Now, I have Reached the Grandest Start of My Life, to 31 Aug.


Australia


Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Glorious: earthly pleasures and heavenly realms, through 2019. Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria


Writing in the Rain: Contemporary Asian video art from the National Gallery of Victoria, to 29 July. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Japonisme: Japan and the Birth of Modern Art, 25 May-28 Oct. National Museum of Australia, Canberra


So That you Might Know Each Other: Faith and Culture in Islam, to 22 Jul. Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Brisbane


Anish Kapoor, to 29 July; Problem/ Wisdom,Thai Art in 1990s, to 12 Aug.


Events


Asia Society, New York City, NY Keynote Address: Moving Borders: Tibet in Interaction With its Neighbors, 4 May, 6.30pm; Symposium: Moving Borders, Tibet in Interaction With its Neighbors, 5 May 9.30am. Asia Week Hong Kong, 23 May-2 Jun. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA Divine Bodies Presents: Purna Lokha Quartet, 19 May, 1.30pm; Divine Bodies Presents: These Bodies Sing of Home, 31 May, 7pm. Art Revolution Taipei, 18-21 May. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath,


Adventures in Ink: Contemporary Chinese Painting, 3 May, 7pm. British Museum, London Chinese seals, 17 May, 1.15pm; An introduction to Chinese jade, 19 May, 1.15pm; Stars of the Korean collection, 22 May, 1.15pm. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Film Screening: Between the Folds, 1pm, May 5.


Guggenheim Museum, New York The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series: One Hand Clapping Opening Event, 4pm, 5 May. Japan Society, New York Workshop with Toshiki Okada, 13 May, 4.30pm; Koto & Shamisen - A Contemporary Spin on Traditional Instruments, 24 May, 7.30pm; Performance: Time’s Journey Through a Room, 10 May-10 June. JINGART Art Beijing, 17-18 May. Tokyo International Art Fair 2018, 25-26 May.


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