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Enamel decoration is a significant element of Chinese decorative arts that has long been overlooked. This exhibition reveals the aesthetic, technical, and cultural achievement of Chinese enamel wares by demonstrating the transformative role of enamel during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties.
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) will proudly present Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics, co-organized with the National Museum of Korea (NMK), from Dec. 3, 2023, to Dec. 7, 2025. Perfectly Imperfect will be on view in the museum’s William Sharpless Jackson Jr. Gallery and the Korea Gallery on level 5 of the Martin Building and will be included in general admission.
This exhibition will explore the theme of diversity by comparing mythical creatures from different cultures. While these fantastical animals may look different, they serve a similar purpose – to help humans make sense of the world.
Drawn from the M+ Collections, this exhibition explores the complex connections between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world. Rotating displays will periodically renew the dialogues among the works and with the natural and urban environments beyond the museum itself.
Contemporary Japanese metalworking breathes life into traditional methods that have been passed down and practiced over generations. The artists featured in Striking Objects create masterpieces that combine tradition with creativity and innovation.
To commemorate the grand opening of the Hong Kong Palace Museum in 2022, many Hong Kong collectors and artists generously supported the Museum's mission of promoting Chinese culture by donating important works of art.
After the rise of Islam in the seventh century and its initial spread, the Arabic script took on a very special significance becoming a unifying factor – an identity marker – across geography and ethnicity.
Bizen ware, characterized by its rich reddish-brown clay with natural ash glaze, is one of Japan’s six pottery traditions.
Marking the Museum’s 10th anniversary, Light: Visionary Perspectives dives into the omnipresence and impact of light, placing visitors at the centre of an immersive exhibition filled with contemporary installations by renowned artists.
In the 1800s, artists created many sophisticated rubbings from bronzes, jades, and sculptures to revitalize the appreciation of antique objects.
The Met joins film director James Ivory to stage an exhibition composed of superlative drawings from the courts and centers of India and Pakistan (with a few related Persian works) dating from the late 16th to the 20th century.
Sightlines highlights the imprint of Asian Americans on the physical and cultural terrain of Washington, D.C.
“Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection” includes more than two hundred gilt-bronze sculptures, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet between the 1300s and early 1900s.
Jinshixue, literally ‘the study of metal and stone’ was initiated by scholars of the Song dynasty (960 – 1279). This presentation illustrates its importance and impact of jinshixue on Chinese art.
With substantial support from National Cultural Heritage Administration and a group of leading archaeological institutions and museums in China, “The Origins of Chinese Civilisation” provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the origins of Chinese civilisation in recent years. With new historical and cultural insights, this exhibition is divided into three sections, with each presenting the origins, formation, and development of Chinese civilisation respectively.
The oasis of Dunhuang, at the edge of the Gobi Desert, was once a bustling town on the famous Silk Road connecting China and the Mediterranean. Discover the personal stories of those who lived, travelled through, worked, and worshipped here more than 1,000 years ago.
Coinciding with The Noguchi Museum’s 40th anniversary in 2025, works from the Museum’s original second floor installation will return to those galleries for the first time since 2009. Against Time is curated by Matthew Kirsch, Noguchi Museum Curator and Director of Research.
The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong (HKU), is honoured to present Japanese Printmakers of the Twentieth-Century Renaissance: Kurosaki Akira and Nakabayashi Tadayoshi. The exhibition highlights two of Japan’s most remarkable printmakers and their influence on a resurgence of printmaking in Japan.
This exhibition showcases selected works from the Xubaizhai Collection, featuring the theme of life planning through the creations by different groups of scholarly officials and reclusive literati.
Returning for its fourth edition this October, the Bangkok Art Biennale is delighted to announce 30 additional international artists, three more venues and two more international advisors for the Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB), titled Nurture Gaia.
Presented as part of Qatar-Morocco 2024 Year of Culture, Splendours of the Atlas: A Voyage Through Morocco’s Heritage will investigate multifaceted heritage of Islamic Morocco, revealing the forces that have shaped its unique identity to the present day.
Making It Matters mostly draws upon the diverse works of the M+ Collections. The artists, designers, and architects featured include John Cage, Harold Cohen, Julie & Jesse, John Maeda, Raffaella della Olga, Anna Ridler, Ki Saigon, Fujimori Terunobu, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Stanley Wong, and Võ Trọng Nghĩa Architects.
This major exhibition will celebrate the extraordinary creative output and internationalist culture of the Golden Age of the Mughal Court (about 1560 – 1660) during the reigns of its most famous emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
In the largest exhibition of her work ever seen in Australia, Cao Fei (pronounced tsow fay) 曹 斐 brings the energy of the contemporary metropolis into the Art Gallery of New South Wales with a retrospective that includes two new commissions.
Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries will feature in the eleventh chapter of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) flagship exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, opening on 30 November 2024.
The twelve zodiac animals—rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar— represent the twelve-year cycles in Asia. Celebrating the New Year, this exhibition highlights Japanese netsuke from the Chester Beatty Collections carved in the shape of these twelve zodiac animals.
Reaching new heights with both its influential style and its staggering auction prices, the work of Qi Baishi (Chinese, 1864–1957) remains an inspiration to audiences worldwide. Blending expertly minimal brushwork with passages of abstraction, Qi changed the course of traditional Chinese painting.
In a world first, M+ presents a two-person exhibition of the photographic works of Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, born 1951) and Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954). Both artists are renowned for their visual and conceptual strategies of masquerade, transforming their appearances to portray multiple identities that offer incisive commentary on contemporary culture and history.
Curated by the NGV in collaboration with the artist especially for Australian audiences, the exhibition Yayoi Kusama includes many works never-before-seen by local audiences as well as a diverse display of the artist’s popular immersive rooms, including the global unveiling of the artist’s most recent immersive infinity mirror room work.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Forbidden City in China and the Palace of Versailles in France each stood as the centre of their respective countries’ political, cultural, and artistic life. Despite the vast geographic distance between them, the courts in Beijing and Versailles were keenly curious about one another.
The exhibition features nearly 190 military artefacts from the Qing court in The Palace Museum’s collection, featuring a wide range of objects such as helmets, archery sets, sabres and swords, equestrian equipment, paintings, textiles, books, albums, and scientific instruments.
The Winter Edition of the Civilisations Brussels Art Fair is set to take place from January 22nd to 26th, 2025. Held in the Sablon district, a renowned cultural hub in the heart of Europe, the event will bring together international galleries showcasing exceptional Ancient, Asian, and Tribal art.
The Sharjah Biennial 16 title, to carry, is a multivocal and open-ended proposition. The ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, is an invitation to encounter our different formations and positions and to gather a constellation of resonances.
James Wong, a renowned cultural figure in Hong Kong, was good at writing lyrics, composing music, writing columns, making movies, advertising creations and stage performances.
This is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date, bringing together nearly 40 pieces made over the past 35 years, including new site-specific drawings and glass works created for the exhibition.
NOMAD St. Moritz will run 20 - 23 February 2025 at the former Klinik Gut, transforming the current construction site in the heart of Switzerland’s magnificent Alps into a unique international platform where contemporary art and design meet, creating a site-specific, immersive, and layered exhibition.
Chinese bronzes made from the 12th to the 19th century are an important but often overlooked category of Chinese art. In ancient China, bronze vessels were emblems of ritual and power. A millennium later, in the period from 1100 to 1900, such vessels were rediscovered as embodiments of a long-lost golden age that was worthy of study and emulation.
This exhibition reintroduces key works in Asia Society Museum's Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of pre-modern Asian art through the lenses of three leading contemporary artists: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell. Each artist has selected a number of works in the collection within which to situate their own new and existing works, approaching historic objects in the collection through their practices and from multiple cultures, heritages, and positions.
Asia Week New York is an annual ten-day celebration of Asian art throughout metropolitan New York, with non-stop exhibitions, auctions and special events presented by leading international Asian art specialists, major auction houses, and world-renowned museums and cultural institutions.
More than sixty masterpieces by Picasso will be on loan from Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP), which holds the largest and most significant repository of Picasso’s works in the world. They will be placed in conversation with over eighty pieces from the M+ Collections by more than twenty Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the early twentieth century to the present.
The fair’s inaugural edition takes place on March 26-30, 2025 (VIP Preview March 26) at the Central Harbourfront and convenes exhibitors from around the world to present an expansive view of the photographic medium.
Celebrating a decade of championing exceptional talent, Art Central 2025 will spotlight established and emerging artists represented by galleries from across Hong Kong, Asia and beyond – introducing diverse perspectives and pioneering practices at the forefront of contemporary art today.
Contemporary art discourse and markets are often driven by an unspoken interest in trauma. But what of artists from underrepresented communities whose lives were altered by conflicts of the twentieth century, yet who chose to never directly represent their traumatic experiences?
Founded in 2007, Art Dubai is the most significant global art gathering in the Middle East. A catalyst for the rapid growth of the region’s art scene and creative economy, it provides an important gateway for discovery, learning and exchange, championing galleries and artists from less-represented geographies.
From the museum that brought you the U.S. premiere of China's Terracotta Warriors in 2008, Bowers proudly presents new groundbreaking discoveries with World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century! Explore China’s captivating early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province, learning why it is hailed as a cradle of ancient Chinese civilization. Traverse millennia, from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to pivotal sites of the Shang and Zhou eras, culminating in the iconic terracotta warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE.
Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by 2007-2036 Biennial Sponsor Koç Holding, the 18th Istanbul Biennial will be curated by Christine Tohmé.
The 18th Istanbul Biennial will unfold in three distinct legs, each building on the previous one and carrying forward lines of inquiry and research from 2025 to 2027.
