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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.
Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex – For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards

Visionary Legacies: A Tribute to Harold J. Newman

15 Jun 2022 - 30 Dec 2022
This exhibition celebrates the life of Harold (Hal) J. Newman and honors the Newman family for their generosity and support of Asia Society Museum’s ongoing efforts to remain at the forefront of collecting contemporary Asian art.
Tianzhuo Chen. Trance, 2019 (video still).

Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity

15 Jun 2022 - 30 Dec 2022
This exhibition presents 19 artworks by seven artists, born in mainland China in the 1980s, reflecting the dramatic economic, political, and cultural shifts the artists have experienced in China during their lifetimes.
Village and Elsewhere: Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes, Jeff Koons' Untitled, and Thai Villagers

Video Spotlight: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

19 Jan 2022 - 08 May 2022
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s practice addresses the dichotomies of life and death, the search for autonomy within cultural constraints, and notions of identity and difference examined through class hierarchies and regional idiosyncrasies.
Rahraw Omarzadm, The Third One

Video Spotlight: Rahraw Omarzad

19 Jan 2022 - 08 May 2022
Rahraw Omarzad’s video depicts a woman sequestered in a windowless space. Her struggle with the restricting barriers of a black cloth and her chadri (or burqa) reflects the crippling effects a dictatorial regime has on the psyche.