Sensational Buddhism
Buddhism, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Practice, Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, Tibetan Art, Tibetan Shrine Room
Category: A Closer Look
Unseen Art History: October Morning: Deerfield, Mass
American Art, Charles Lang Freer, Landscape, Provenance Research, United States, Unseen Art History, Willard Metcalf
Unseen Art History: September (Chrysanthemum)
Art History, Autumn, Chrysanthemum, flowers, Japan, Japanese Art, provenance, Unseen Art History, Watanabe Seitei
Astrology’s Reveal: Fragments of a Scroll
Astrology, Horoscopes, India, Indian art, painting, Planets, Zodiac
Zooming in on the Shapur Plate
Close looking, Online Tours, tours
Ladies of the East: Representation of Women on Sasanian Ewers
Ewer, female figures, Sasanian period, silver
Anachronistic Artworks: Connecting Steampunk to Ancient Chinese Art
Teen Council
Unrooted from the Northern Qi
The Plain Pier of Beautiful Harmonies
Scientific Imaging of a Japanese Handscroll
Japan
Krishna and his family admire a solar eclipse
Traveling Oscar de la Renta: From Runway to Museum
fashion, ikats
Revisiting Whistler’s Neighborhood: The House with the Copper Door
James McNeill Whistler
Revisiting Whistler’s Neighborhood: Freer and Whistler’s Final Days Together
Charles Lang Freer, James McNeill Whistler
The Mystery of the Missing Frame
James McNeill Whistler
A Look Back at the 2017 Hong Kong Film Festival
A Closer Look: Monkeys Grasp for the Moon
A glimpse of an archaeological excavation in Iraq-Kurdistan
Pic of the Week: Docents at Work, Kids at Play
Chinese New Year: Painted Clay Sculptures Celebrate Beijing Opera Characters
Chinese New Year
A Journey into Whistler’s Drawings
F1898.171, F1898.172, James McNeill Whistler
The Saddest Toad
F2004.29
The Freer is Closed, But the Shows Go On
Freer Gallery, renovation
A Year of Freer|Sackler
renovation
Fish-Teeth and Friendship
jewelry, Mughal dynasty
Tibetan Healing Mandala
September 11
Women in the Persian Book of Kings
Shahnama, women
A Day Without Art
World AIDS Day
Super Bowl Sunday
F1946.18a-b
Almost Perfect: Maud Franklin and Whistler’s Wistful Impressions
F1903.82, James McNeill Whistler
They Came. They Saw. They Took Their Time.
Slow Art Day
Charles Lang Freer: A Wild and Crazy Guy?
Freer at 90, music
Slow Down for Art!
Slow Art Day
Weeping Cherry
Moongate Garden
Cyrus in Times Square
Cyrus Cylinder
Snow in Japan
F1902.39
Freer @ 90: Early Acquisitions
Charles Lang Freer, Freer at 90, James McNeill Whistler
Food for Thought: Melons, Mangoes, and Mughals
F1942.16a, Mughal dynasty, S1986.230, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Making History: Google Teams Up with Freer|Sackler
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Google Art Project, Google Cultural Institute
Remixing the Museum: An Interview with DJ Spooky
Anna May Wong, Asia After Dark, DJ Spooky
The Art of the Proposal
F1916.101
Nomads and Networks in the Field: Everyday Life in the Iron Age
Claudia Chang, Iron Age, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan, Tuzusai
Inspired by…Art
Inspired by…Cupcakes
India, Sackler 25, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Tom Vick in Korea: Now it Gets Interesting…
Korea, Tom Vick
“Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples” Closes July 8
Masters of Mercy
Peacocks: Four Men in Three Acts
F1901.188, Frederick Richards Leyland, Google Art Project, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room, Thomas Jeckyll
Japan: the Apple of Steve Jobs’ Eye?
Hashiguchi Goyo, S2003.8.121
Religion in the Gallery: A First-person Perspective
Exhibiting Asia, Sackler 25
New On View: Mary Thayer
Abbott Handerson Thayer, F1906.96a, Lee Glazer
Ai Weiwei: A Model Exhibition
Ai Weiwei, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, exhibition design, Fragments
Monks at an Exhibition
Buddhism, Japan Spring, Masters of Mercy, Sackler 25
Kimchi, Drinks, and a Movie
Korea, Na Hong-jin
Eye Wonder Redux
Google Art Project, Peacock Room
Hokusai: Making Waves
Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai, Sackler 25
Hokusai: A Mad Man Before His Time
Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai
Spring in DC
cherry blossoms
Why Bento?
Freer Gallery, James McNeill Whistler