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New: Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape
Upcoming: May 31, 2008 - August 24, 2008
In this exhibition, prints and paintings depicting the scenic Yellow Mountain (Mount Huangshan or Huangshan) in Anhui province, arguably the most beautiful mountain in China, are on view. Included in the exhibition are woodblock illustrations and mountainscapes created mostly by monk-painters who either traveled to or lived in the wilderness surrounding Yellow Mountain during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. These works of art, whether done from nature or from memory, by well-known and little-recognized artists have captured the ever-changing appearance of the area.
New: MURAQQA': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (new title)
May 3, 2008 - August 3, 2008
This exhibition features 82 masterpieces -- many on view for the first time in the United States -- from the renowned collection of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland, and 2 masterworks from the Freer Gallery's famed collection of Mughal paintings. These works illustrate the artists' sophistication in creating the art of the book in the early 17th century. On display in lavish imperial albums (called muraqqa' in Persian) are Mughal paintings and calligraphies commissioned by the Emperor Jahangir (1605-27) and Shah Jahan (1627-58), depicting images of the imperial family in private settings, Sufi saints and mystics, allies and courtiers, and natural history objects. Also on view are many folios -- some with full-page paintings with figural borders, others with collages of European, Persian, and Mughal works collected by the emperors.
New: Perspectives -- Y.Z. Kami
March 15, 2008 - October 13, 2008 (new opening and closing dates)
As part of the Perspectives series of contemporary Asian art, three new works by artist Y.Z. Kami are on view. Untitled (2005) and Untitled (Marina I) (2007) are two monumental portraits from his current series depicting individuals in meditation -- each subject emanates a sense of peace and introspection. In Rumi -- The Book of Massanvi e Manavi, the third and largest work that is on view, poetry and religious architecture also give form to the divine. Using collage and verses from the Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), Kami arranges words like bricks in a spiral of calligraphy that invokes the feeling of looking through a dome or the ecstatic movement of a ritual dance.

web Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/YZKami.htm

New: Patterned Feathers, Piercing Eyes: Edo Masters from the Price Collection
November 10, 2007 - April 13, 2008
This selection of 109 Japanese Edo Period (1615-1868) paintings from the world renowned California-based collection of Joe and Etsuko Price, features screen, hanging scroll, and fan formats. The Price Collection reflects the eclectic diversity of a remarkably creative span in Japan's history of visual culture and some of the finest examples of the distinctive, hauntingly preternatural renderings of animal life by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800).

Note: Three rotations of works will occur in order to display all 109 paintings -- with approximately 50 on view at any given time -- and to provide protection for those that are light sensitive.

Related catalogue: $29.95 (paper)

web Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/Price/intro.htm

New: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
April 1, 2007 - through 2010
This exhibition of approximately 200 diverse and visually striking ceramic vessels from Southeast Asia explores the migration of pots from their makers to their users. This exhibition also illuminates the dimensions of international trade that brought southern Chinese ceramics into mainland Southeast Asia and from there reaching distant markets -- from Japan to Turkey. Spanning four millennia on invention and exchange, from the prehistoric period to the present, the vessels on view were crafted for rituals, burials, domestic use, and trade. These clay pots and jars, made permanent by firing in bonfires or kilns, form the most enduring record of human activities, interactions, and ideas about form and decoration in mainland Southeast Asia.

web Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/TakingShape.htm

The Arts of China
November 18, 1990 - Indefinitely
A variety of materials, techniques, and motifs, which span almost six thousand years, are explored in this exhibition of 228 objects highlighting the Sackler Gallery's permanent holdings of Chinese art. The exhibition features jades and bronzes, Buddhist sculpture and wall paintings, glass, lacquerware, furniture, and paintings from the Neolithic period to the 20th century.

web Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/artsofchina.htm

Contemporary Japanese Porcelain
May/June 1995 - Indefinitely
Twentieth-century Japanese artists give fresh interpretations to the time-honored art of porcelain in this selection of works from the Sackler Gallery's collection. The distinctive decorations, which range from natural motifs to more abstract designs, are created using iron and cobalt pigments and platinum, gold, and silver enamels.

web Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/contJapanesePorc.htm

Sculpture of South and Southeast Asia
November 26, 1992 - Indefinitely
A group of 10th- to 13th-century Cambodian stone sculptures complements a display of Hindu stone, bronze, brass, and terra-cotta sculptures from South India dating from the 8th through the 14th century.

web Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/SculptureSouthAsia.htm

Sculpture: Monkeys Grasping for the Moon
2004 - Indefinitely
It was originally created as a temporary display by expatriate Chinese artist Xu Bing (b. 1955) for the 2001 exhibition Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing. In order for it to remain on permanent view, it was re-created under Xu Bing's supervision and was given to the museum by the family of Madame Chiang Kai-shek in 2004 to coincide with the Year of the Monkey. This sculpture -- suspended from the sky-lit atrium down to the 3rd-level reflecting pool -- is composed of 21 laminated wood pieces, with each forming the word "monkey" in a dozen different languages. Based on a Chinese folktale, the monkeys linked arms and tails to form a chain to reach down to the pool below to capture the shimmering moon, only to discover it was a reflection. Moral: We often waste much time on futile goals.

web Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/xuBing.htm

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