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Past Exhibitions

An amorph0ous group of white interconnected shapes highlighted with red outlines fills the center two-thirds of the horizontal rectangular canvas. The background is solid black with a few dotted white and red lines emerging from the right and bottom edges of the canvas..

Approaching Abstraction: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Across Australia

18 Sep 2024 - 05 Jan 2025
This exhibition presents the work of five Aboriginal artists of multiple generations from across Australia.
This view of the jar shows painted images in light and dark blues against grayish white background. around the largest central section of the jar and at the bottom. In the center is a crane who appears to have jumped from the tree branches towards flowers and plants at the bottom of the jar. The full moon sits above and in between the leafy tree branches.

Luminous Stars from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection

17 Sep 2024 - 05 Jan 2025
The objects in this focused exhibition demonstrate the preeminent Asian art objects collected by Asia Society's founder.
In this detail, five figures stand abreast in the lower half of the painting, while vertical columns set behind them take up the upper half. The figures and the columns are colored in deep oranges, browns, and creams.

Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala

17 Sep 2024 - 05 Jan 2025
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala features masterpieces of ochre painting on eucalyptus bark, many of which have never been on view outside of Australia.
Antarctica, 2016

COAL + ICE

13 Feb 2024 - 11 Aug 2024
Asia Society New York presents COAL + ICE, an immersive photography and video exhibition accompanied by related programs.
Catch of the Day

Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan

03 Oct 2023 - 07 Jan 2024
Asia Society and the Japanese Art Society of America take a fresh look at the art of Japan’s Meiji era (1868-1912).
Detail of Newly Published Comic Picture of Cats (Shinpan neko no giga)

Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds

16 Jun 2023 - 18 Sep 2023
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco presents a rollicking version of "Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds."
Buddha Shakyamuni with Kneeling Worshippers

Buddha, Sage of the Shakya Clan

13 Jun 2023 - 27 Aug 2023
"Buddha, Sage of the Shakya Clan" captures the mythology of Buddha's life and the "Eight Great Events" that transformed it.
The Fathers of the People of Error Are Punished in Hell (detail)

Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds

28 Feb 2023 - 07 May 2023
With fifty-four superlative Asian artworks spanning the tenth to twenty-first centuries, this international loan exhibition explores portrayals of hell and conceptions of the afterlife across Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Islam.
Storage Jar. Vietnam, possibly Champa. 15th–16th century.

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

20 Oct 2022 - 22 Jan 2023
Fundación Barrié
Presenting nearly seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of artworks thoughtfully assembled by John D. Rockefeller 3rd and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller.
Storage Jar. Vietnam, possibly Champa. 15th–16th century.

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

25 Jun 2022 - 18 Sep 2022
Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
Presenting nearly seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of artworks thoughtfully assembled by John D. Rockefeller 3rd and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller.