Press Release Category: Exhibitions
A Buddhist monk's stole (kesa), Japan, Edo period, 1615–1868, silk, Gift of Charles Lang Freer, Freer Gallery of Art, F1916.663
Segment of a sutra from Mount Koya, Japan, late Heian period, 12th century, gold on indigo-dyed paper, Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Freer Gallery of Art, F2014.6.17a-d
Sunrise in Udaipur, 1722–23. Udaipur. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; 82.3 × 152.4 cm. The City Palace Museum, Udaipur, 2012.20.0015 (Detail)
Detail, “rainbow night 4” from the series “Rainbow Passes Slowly,” Ay- Ō, (b. 1931, Japan), 1971, silkscreen; ink on paper, H x W (unframed) 54.5 × 73.6 cm (21 7/16 × 29 in),
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Gift of Margot Paul Ernst in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Paul, S1987.976.11, © Ay-Ō
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art Announces “Ay-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell”
First Museum Exhibition in US Dedicated to Japanese Artist Ay-Ō, Member of the International Fluxus Avant-garde Art Group, Celebrated Figure of Pop Art Movement
Detail, Maple Leaves on a Stream (front), Ikeda Koson (1801–1866), Edo period, 1856–58, pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper, Purchase—Harold P. Stern Memorial Fund and funds provided by the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries in appreciation of James W. Lintott and his exemplary service to the Galleries as chair of the Board of Trustees (2011–2015), Freer Gallery of Art, F2014.7.1–2
Left to right: Ritual wine pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals, Anyang or middle Yangzi region, ca. 1100 B.C., bronze, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, F1961.33a–b; Ritual wine-pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie) and dragons, middle or late Anyang period, ca. 1100 B.C., bronze, Gift of Arthur M. Sackler, S1987.279a–b; Ritual wine-pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals, middle Anyang period, ca. 1150–1100 B.C., bronze, Purchase—Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1939.53a–b (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art Presents “Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings”
The First Major Exhibition in the United States Dedicated to Anyang, the Capital of Ancient China’s Shang Dynasty and Birthplace of Chinese Archaeology
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art Presents “Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India”
Works by Indian Artists Speak to Global Environmental and Social Issues
Left to right: Mary Chase Perry Stratton, Charles Lang Freer, Agnes Meyer, Dikran Kelekian. Image credits
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art Announces “Freer’s Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers”
Groundbreaking Exhibition Uncovers and Amplifies the Many Voices and Perspectives That Inform the Museum Collection’s History