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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.
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.
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.
2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the sister-city partnership between Shanghai and Osaka. Commemorating this event, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka has collaborated with the Shanghai Museum to organize a special exhibition titled “Resonating Treasures of Chinese Ceramics—Shanghai Museum X The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.”
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.
Ceramic holds special meaning for Korean people. In particular, “Bisaek celadon, the best under heaven” and the Dalhangari, also known as the Moon Jar (White Porcelain Jar), stand as representative symbols of a national aesthetic sense.
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.
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.
In Veering, the artist Hu Xiaoyuan presents 12 newly commissioned works from 7 series, weaving together installation, sound, painting, and video to reveal the complex relationship between human destiny and natural evolution, addressing ultimate questions of individual survival and the meaning of life.
Eltiqa (Arabic for “encounter”) is an artist collective from Gaza City founded in 2000. For over twenty years, Eltiqa members have developed artistic practices together – including the setting up of a dedicated exhibition and workshop space in Gaza City, and supporting younger generations of artists through workshops, exhibitions and by offering a space to meet and dialogue.
In 1897, the French painter Claude Monet made four paintings of the chrysanthemums in his garden in Giverny, capturing them not in a vase but en plein air—painting the flowers as they grew. He had been an avid collector of Japanese prints since the 1870s, and his unexpected, expressive use of space in this experiment recalls the Large Flowers series of prints made between 1833 and 1834 by Katsushika Hokusai.
The exhibition Wondrous Rivers: Exploring Chinese Landscape Paintings invites visitors to immerse themselves in the captivating world of Chinese landscape paintings from the collection of the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong.
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.
Asia Society Museum is showing Yang Fudong’s Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, in its entirety as a prelude to the upcoming exhibition, (Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Collection, opening in March. The work follows seven young men and women on journeys in search of their identities and ideal lives, reflecting the many urban, ideological, and economic transformations across China today.
Known for exquisite porcelain production and expansive trade, the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) represents a period of Chinese imperial rule between the fall of the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) and the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty (1644–1911).
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.
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.
Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art will be on view from March 6 through July 13, 2025 at China Institute Gallery at 100 Washington Street. The exhibition will showcase one of the world’s greatest collections of ancient Chinese bronzes outside of China from a crucial period in the history of human civilization.
M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, is pleased to present Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand, a large-scale installation and performance staged in The Studio at M+.
“Everything is art. Everything is politics.” Globally renowned artist Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is celebrated as a disruptor of artistic canons and a champion of free expression. In his work—ranging across performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation—he deploys humor and provocation, calling upon his viewers to examine history, society, and culture.
Explore the auspicious theme of kotobuki, or “celebration,” through an inspired selection of paintings, calligraphy, surimono, textiles, ceramics, and baskets dating from the 12th-21st centuries.
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.
Imagine a god who appears to you as a mischievous child—you dance together in meadows, play with him, and gift him fruits and flowers. This may give you an idea of how the Hindu Pushtimarg community engages with the divine.
Food culture is naturally an important element of the Chinese civilisation. This exhibition invites visitors to enjoy a multicourse feast spanning five thousand years of Chinese history. The first part, Crossing from Life to Death , features a ceremonial meal for the deceased.
Over the course of three months, Jette Bang and ethnographer Klaus Ferdinand followed two Bedouin tribes in Qatar’s desert landscape. The outcome was over 1,200 photographs, both black and white and in colour, as well as footage for the documentary film Bedouins (1962).
Over the past four decades, Shanghai-born, Marin County–based artist Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961) has cultivated a unique practice that engages with the driving concepts and aesthetics of the Light and Space movement and East Asia’s tradition of ink painting.
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?
An examination of the innovations in calligraphic art, Line, Form, Qi: Calligraphic Art from the Fondation INK Collection highlights experimental works of modern and contemporary calligraphic art made by artists including Fung Ming Chip, Gu Wenda, Inoue Yūichi, Lee In, Henri Michaux, Nguyễn Quang Thắng, Qiu Zhijie, Tong Yangtze, Wang Dongling, Wei Ligang, and Xu Bing.
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.
2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the first terracotta army pit in the 1970s, a find that reshaped global understanding of ancient China. Both Bowers Museum’s 2008 exhibition Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor and 2011 exhibition Warriors, Tombs, and Temples: China’s Enduring Legacy captivated audiences with these awe-inspiring relics.
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.
Taking place in London at the height of the Summer Art Season, Eye of the Collector is a unique fair that offers a curated presentation of art and collectible design in dialogue with beautiful architectural surroundings. The next edition will take place between the 25th and 28th June 2025 (25th by invitation only).
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.
Every autumn Asian Art in London brings together leading international dealers and auction houses from the UK, Europe, USA and Asia. They specialise in a wide variety of ancient to modern Asian art, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Islamic and Middle Eastern, Himalayan and Central Asian, Southeast Asian.
We are thrilled to announce that the 13th edition of ART021 will take place at Shanghai Exhibition Center from November 13th to 16th, 2025. With a global vision based on local roots, ART021 commits to present outstanding art practice from leading galleries and institutions, providing an open and professional platform for galleries, artists, collectors and art lovers all over the world.
