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Peacock Room
Category: Collections
Phase One of the Peacock Room Conservation Project Is Complete!
Peacock Room
The Conservation Work Begins!
Peacock Room
Sensational Buddhism: Marks of Perfection
Buddhism, China, Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, India, Tibetan Art
Exploring Digital Initiatives through Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture
archaeology, Ars Orientalis, Buddhism, China, digitization, east Asia
Unseen Art History: Utagawa Toyoharu’s ‘A Winter Party’
Charles Lang Freer, Japan, painting, Unseen Art History
Unseen Art History: Wine cup from the Hoi An Hoard shipwreck
ceramics, Pottery, Shipwreck, Southeast Asian Art, Unseen Art History, Vietnam
Sensational Buddhism
Buddhism, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Practice, Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, Tibetan Art, Tibetan Shrine Room
Unseen Art History: Tea Bowl with Design of Chrysanthemums
ceramics, Japanese Art, Japanese ceramics, provenance, Provenance Research, Unseen Art History, Yamanaka & Co.
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
From Court to Concert Hall: The Origins of Classical Music in Japan
classical music, concert, court music, Japan, Meiji era, music, piano, violin
Unseen Art History: Ancestor Portraits—Prince Hongming and Lady Wanyan
Art History, Chinese Art, Pritzlaff Collection, provenance, Unseen Art History
This Day in Freer History: July 23, 1879
Thinking Beyond the Frame
Bai Juyi, Five Women Who Changed the World, Japanese Art, Oda Mayumi, poetry, Print, Silkscreen, social media, Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Tale of Genji, Women in Art, Women's History Month, Yang Guifei
The Guiding Hand of Past Masters
Fujiwara no Yasumasa, Gerhard Pulverer Collection, Hakamadare, Illustrated Books, Japanese Art, Japanese Artists, Kikuchi Yōsai, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, World Book Day
![Black and white photo of installation view, “Chinese, Corean [sic] and Japanese potteries” exhibition, Knoedler & Co., New York, March 2–21, 1914.](https://i0.wp.com/asia.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1-scaled.jpg?resize=980%2C980&ssl=1)
This Day in Freer History: March 21, 1914
Archives, ceramics, Charles Lang Freer, Chinese Art, Freer at 100, Freer Gallery of Art Collection, Freer History, Japanese Art, Korean Art
Nowruz, Courts, and Music
Ancient Near East, celebrations, equinox, music, Nowruz, Persian, spring
Amit Dutta’s Cinematic Museum
Amit Dutta, Asian Film, film, film series, Indian Cinema, Indian Film
Happy Losar!
Alice S. Kandell Collection, Buddhism, Losar, Lunar New Year, Sikkim, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan New Year
Zhong Kui and the Lunar New Year
Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Shoki, Zhong Kui, Zhongshan
Memories of a Lunar New Year Past
celebrations, Chinese New Year, Door gods, family traditions, holidays, Lunar New Year
Puzzling our way through!
This Day in Freer History: November 22, 1920
Amitabha, Buddha, Buddhism, C.T. Loo, Charles Lang Freer, China, east Asia, Eugene and Agnes Meyer, Freer at 100, Freer History, John E. Lodge, Katharine Nash Rhoades, provenance, sculpture, Xiangtangshan
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
LONELY PLANET in Edo-period Japan: Meisho Zue
Japanese Art, Library, Travel
This Day in Freer History: July 18, 1894
Charles Lang Freer, Freer at 100, Freer Gallery of Art, Freer History, James McNeill Whistler
Studying Rajput Ragamala Paintings
Indian art, Indian classical music, Ragamala painting, South Asian art
This Day in Freer History: April 20, 1907
Charles Lang Freer, Freer at 100, Freer Gallery, Freer History
Ladies of the East: Representation of Women on Sasanian Ewers
Ewer, female figures, Sasanian period, silver
International Provenance Research Day
Charles Lang Freer, Day of Provenance Research 2020, provenance, Provenance Research, Provenienzforschung 2020
Movies in the Spirit of the Cherry Blossoms
This Day in Freer History: March 21, 1907
Charles Lang Freer, Freer at 100, Freer History
This Day in Freer History: February 23, 1901
Charles Lang Freer, Freer at 100, Freer History, History, Katsushika Hokusai
Anachronistic Artworks: Connecting Steampunk to Ancient Chinese Art
Teen Council
Meeting our Mentors
Teen Council
Unrooted from the Northern Qi
Mountains, Museums, and the Mekong Delta: Travels in Vietnam
The Plain Pier of Beautiful Harmonies
Scientific Imaging of a Japanese Handscroll
Japan
Pocket-Sized Protectors
Ancient women speak out – today!
Dance from Indonesia: Classical and Contemporary
Indonesia
Krishna and his family admire a solar eclipse
This Saturday: Reconsider Freer’s Asian Ceramics
Charles Lang Freer
Embracing the Year of the Dog
Lunar New Year
Introducing the Prince and the Shah
Iran, Iranian Film Festival, The Prince and the Shah
Exploring Civilizations at the Freer
Indonesia Intrepid II
Indonesia
Chinese Painting Conservation in Action
paintings
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
Indonesia Intrepid I
Indonesia
Utamaro: The Musical at the Freer|Sackler
Kitagawa Utamaro
Chinese New Year: Celebrating with Food and Art
Chinese New Year, Family Day
Chinese New Year: Painted Clay Sculptures Celebrate Beijing Opera Characters
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year: Step Into a Beijing Artist’s Bristle Doll Studio
Chinese New Year, Family Day
Goryeo Buddhist Painting: A Closer Look
Buddhism, Goryeo period, Korea, paintings
Meet Our Volunteer: Patrick Hamilton
S2012.5a-b, volunteers
Whistler’s Watercolors: Sneak Peek
F1905.120a-b, F1907.170a-d
National Cat Day: Courtesan Beneath a Mosquito Net
F1995.17
Chinamania in 3D
Chinamania
National Fossil Day: A Mysterious Mammoth Carving
F1957.25
Jades for Life and Death
Grey and Gold
F1904.163a-b, James McNeill Whistler
Notes from the Desert
Gauri Gill
Chrysanthemum Wine on the Double Nine
S1987.218
Chinese Red
F1942.20a–c, F2015.2
Scenes of the 1923 Earthquake
F1975.12
(Every Day is) Dog Day
S1987.24, S2004.3.25
Word Play
S2004.2.1–21
World Photography Day
Gauri Gill, S2014.16
A Journey into Whistler’s Drawings
F1898.171, F1898.172, James McNeill Whistler
International Tiger Day
The Man behind the “Mania”
No Hungry Generations Tread Thee Down
F1911.163o
Artist at Work: Michael Joo
Perspectives
Japanese Music for the Summer Solstice
Happy Father’s Day!
Whistler’s Portraits: Ripper, Vampire, or Sickert?
F1905.108, James McNeill Whistler
Wu School: Bamboo in Rain
Wu School
Word Nerd Wednesday: jinshi, juren, and jieyuan
Wu School
Remembering Suzhou
Wu School
Word of the Day: zhiyin
Wu School
ImaginAsia: The Lost Finger
A Daylily for Mom
Wu School
Gardens of Pasargadae
gardens
The Cicada in China
New Arrival: A Robe for Royalty
Earth Day: Searching for Plum Blossoms
Earth Day, F1917.108, Wu School
Painting with Words: Gentleman Artists of the Ming Dynasty
F1911.163o, Wu School
The Big Sneeze
The Saddest Toad
F2004.29
Ancestors Day
F1916.186
Arwa and Ahmed: An Interview with Two Saudi Art Stars
Prints Fit for a Dig
Ernst Herzfeld, Pasargadae
Unraveling Our Objects’ Histories
provenance
Elite Eight: March Sadness
A Man and His Dog . . . and His Boar
Ernst Herzfeld
Spring Has Sprung: Japan
F1984.39, S2003.8.2577, S2003.8.623
Ahmed Mater: A to Y
Saudi Arabia
#5WomenArtists: Lara Baladi
Egypt, Lara Baladi, Perspectives
Remembering A Memorial
Ernst Herzfeld, Pasargadae
Seventeen Angry Heads
Buddhism, S1997.27, Tara, Tibet
Sunflowers in the Peacock Room
FSC-M-66a–b, Peacock Room, sunflowers, Thomas Jeckyll
NYFW: Accessories through the Ages
F1907.380, F1907.690, F1911.453, F1957.3, F1990.3a-b, fashion, jewelry, New York Fashion Week, S2001.2
Thanks, Mr. President!
F1908.17a
Heart of an Empire: Herzfeld’s Discovery of Pasargadae
Achaemenid period, Ernst Herzfeld, Pasargadae
NYFW: Catwalk-Worthy Fashions in Our Collections
fashion
Celebrate the Year of the Monkey
Chinese New Year, Family Day, Xu Bing
Six Reasons to See “Sōtatsu” Before it Closes
Sotatsu: Making Waves, Tawaraya Sōtatsu
The Cosmic Buddha’s New Dimensions
Cosmic Buddha
Making Musical Waves
koto, S2004.3.21
Princess: Unleashed
F1903.91a–b, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Sōtatsu: Pieces of the Past
F1900.24, Tawaraya Sōtatsu
A Painting That Doesn’t Exist
F1902.138, F1902.139, F1905.130, F1905.133, F1905.136, F1905.138, Filthy Lucre, James McNeill Whistler
Powerballs
Egypt
A Glimpse of New Year’s Gold
F1896.55, New Year, tea, tea ceremony
Evolutionary: Whistler, Darwin, and the Peacock Room
James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Friday Fave: Sugimoto’s Seascapes
Friday Fave, photography
Inspired By the Dark
F1902.143a–b, James McNeill Whistler, Kobayashi Kiyochika
Shadows and Light (Sabers): Star Wars Puppetry
Last Chance! Peacock Room Shutters Open Today
Friday Fave: The Weavers
F1913.59a–c, Friday Fave, John Singer Sargent
Fish-Teeth and Friendship
jewelry, Mughal dynasty
Ars Orientalis 45: Knowledge Triumphs Over Time and Space
architecture, Ars Orientalis
Shining a Light on Jades at the Freer|Sackler
F1917.28, jade
A Testament to Love: Palmyra in the North of England
F1908.236, Haliphat, Palmyra
Friday Fave: Syrian Glass Bowl
F1933.13, Friday Fave
Enter the Peacock Room with Google Cardboard
Peacock Room
Friday Fave: Trees
F1962.30–31, Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Halloween Help from Freer|Sackler
F2003.5.16, Halloween, masks
Sōtatsu Rules the Waves!
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Osumi Yukie: Master of Japanese Metalwork
Osumi Yukie
Action, Anarchy, and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective
Seijun Suzuki
Teen Artist Residency: Peacock Printmaking Project
Filthy Lucre, Peacock Room
Friday Fave: Sunrise
Dwight William Tryon, F1915.129a–b, Friday Fave
Behind the Scenes: Sōtatsu
Sotatsu: Making Waves, Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Tibetan Healing Mandala
September 11
Friday Fave: Buddhist Stele
Buddhism, Friday Fave, S1991.157
Anime and Manga Summer Camp
Friday Fave: Filthy Lucre
Filthy Lucre, Friday Fave, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Friday Fave: Silver Rosewater Bottle
F1950.5, Friday Fave, Iran, Persia
Friday Fave: Funerary Bust of “Miriam”
Friday Fave, S2013.2.139
Friday Fave: Shrine of a Perfected Being
F1997.33, Friday Fave, Jainism
Vote for the Cosmic Buddha in SI’s Summer Showdown!
Buddha, Buddhism, F1923.15, Smithsonian Summer Showdown
Beyond the Instagram Filter
James McNeill Whistler
Friday Fave: Guardian Figures
F1949.21, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Gold Ewer
F1943.1, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Lute and White Snake
F1904.134, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Hiroshige’s “Sudden Shower”
F1994.29, Friday Fave
Peacock Room REMIX: Break it Down
Filthy Lucre, Peacock Room
Friday Fave: Court Ladies Playing with Fireworks
Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Brass Basin
digitization, F1955.10, Friday Fave
Zooming In: Crystal Clear
Friday Fave: “Sunrise: April”
digitization, F1906.79a–b, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Pen Box
digitization, F1986.58, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Chiharu Shiota
digitization, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Chinese Bells
digitization, Friday Fave, S1987.285
Friday Fave: Chinese Taoist Immortals
F1902.227, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Monkeys Grasp for the Moon
digitization, Friday Fave, S2004.2.1–21
Friday Fave: Fragment of a Glass Beaker
digitization, Egypt, F1909.604, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Elephants in the Museum
digitization, Friday Fave
Women in the Persian Book of Kings
Shahnama, women
Friday Fave: Tibetan Shrine
digitization, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Writing Box
digitization, F1904.37a–c, Friday Fave
Mats Matter
F1930.84, paper
Friday Fave: Shiva Nataraja
digitization, F2003.2, Open F|S
Friday Fave: Sunflower Andirons
Charles Lang Freer, digitization, Filthy Lucre, Friday Fave, FSC-M-66a–b, James McNeill Whistler
Friday Fave: Pheasants and Cherry Trees
Cherry Blossom Festival, digitization, F2006.3.1–2, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Breakfast in the Loggia
digitization, F1917.182a–b, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: March MADness
digitization, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Nasta‘liq
calligraphy, digitization, F1931.20, F1942.15b, Friday Fave, Nowruz
Friday Fave: Chape of a Scabbard
digitization, F1994.5, India, Mughal dynasty
Friday Fave: Vairochana, the Cosmic Buddha
digitization, F1923.15
Celebrate the Lunar New Year at Freer|Sackler
Chinese New Year, F1931.4, Family Day
Grey Matters
digitization, S1997.33
Valentine’s Day Cards: Be(ad) Mine?
digitization, e-cards, F1909.1462, Valentine's Day
Friday Fave: Tea Bowl
digitization, F1904.323, Friday Fave, gold, lacquer, repair
Friday Fave: Wine Horn
digitization, Friday Fave, S1987.33, Sasanian period
Friday Fave: “The Lute” by Thomas Dewing
digitization, F1913.34a, Friday Fave, music
Friday Fave: Monkeys and Trees on a Riverbank
digitization, F1903.218–19, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami
digitization, F1903.54, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Director’s Choice
digitization, F1941.10, Friday Fave, Iraq, Syria
Friday Fave: Tigers!
digitization, F1935.21, F1935.22, Friday Fave
Digitocracy!
digitization
Open F|S: Digital Zero
digitization
Meaning and Melody
F1942.15b, Nasta'liq, Podcasts
A Matter of Life and Death
Ars Orientalis, China, F1915.110, Halloween
Zooming In: Tools of the Manuscript Illustrator (part two)
Islam, manuscripts
Finding Fish for “Bountiful Waters”
F2002.15, Utagawa Hiroshige
Why is the Smithsonian Covered in Yarn?!
Chiharu Shiota, Perspectives
Larger Than Life: Restoring the Empress Dowager
Empress Dowager Cixi
Remembering Collector Robert H. Ellsworth
calligraphy, F1985.30
Whistler, Hiroshige, and a Fortunate Find
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, James McNeill Whistler
Whistler and the British Music Hall
F1896.76, James McNeill Whistler
Can Your Tea Jar Do This?
Chigusa, tea
You Ask, We Answer: Why is American art in the Freer|Sackler?
Charles Lang Freer, F1904.75a, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
X-Ray Visions
Egypt, F1909.506, x-radiography
Meteor Spotted in Freer Gallery!
F1955.27a-b, India, Jahangir, Mughal dynasty
Happy International Sushi Day!
Bountiful Waters: Aquatic Life in Japanese Art, F1995.16.10, sushi
The Littlest Tea Man
ceramics, Chigusa, tea
World Cup!
S1987.147, sports
Mother Knows Best
FSC-GR-619, James McNeill Whistler
London Calling
James McNeill Whistler
And the Academy Award for Best Actor Goes To …
Anne van Biema, Edo period, S2004.3.259
Happy Birthday, Charles Lang Freer!
Charles Lang Freer, Edward Steichen
Valentine’s Day: Writing a Poem on a Crimson Leaf
F1917.335, Tang dynasty, Valentine's Day
Whistler Gone Wilde
aestheticism, James McNeill Whistler
Happy New Year of the Horse!
Chinese New Year, F1945.32, horses, Tang dynasty
Yoga: A Transforming Exhibition
Yoga: The Art of Transformation
In the Swim: Dolphins in Ancient Egypt
Charles Lang Freer, Ernst Herzfeld, F1909.855, FSA A.6 04.GN.3241
Angry Birds?
Charles Lang Freer, Dewing, F1896.100, F1896.53, Japan, Sylvan Sounds
Yoga: The Art of Transformation opens Saturday, October 19
Yoga: The Art of Transformation
September 11, 1893
Yoga: The Art of Transformation
Almost Perfect: Maud Franklin and Whistler’s Wistful Impressions
F1903.82, James McNeill Whistler
Eels in July
F2008.2a-c, Meiji era
On Rina Banerjee’s “A World Lost”
Perspectives
Happy Birthday, Jimmy Whistler!
James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Fireworks!
Japan, Kobayashi Kiyochika, S2003.8.1195
Danielle Probst: From Child’s Pose to Yoga Messenger
Yoga
Heels Over Head: When Charles Lang Freer Met Swami Vivekananda
Yoga
The Power of Koringa
S1987.905, Yoga
Book Yoga: The Other Yoga Boom
Yoga
Putting Our Heads Together to Make Yoga History
Yoga
Transformation and the Art of Yoga
Yoga
Together We’re One: Crowdfunding our Yoga Exhibition
crowdfunding, Yoga
The Paper Chase: Making Japanese Books
Gerhard Pulverer Collection
Charles Lang Freer: A Wild and Crazy Guy?
Freer at 90, music
Nomads and Networks: Archaeologists Between Digs
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan
The Art of the Book
Family Day, Gerhard Pulverer Collection, graphic arts, Japan
Kilnsites and Campsites in Cambodia
archaeology, Cambodia
Stars above Pasargadae: Ernst Herzfeld and the Legacies of Cyrus
Cyrus Cylinder, Ernst Herzfeld, Iran
Cyrus in Times Square
Cyrus Cylinder
Going Green
color, F1908.275, Iran, poetry, Sufi
Mei-ling Hom on Contemporary Korean Ceramics
ceramics, Mei-ling Hom
Demons Out! Luck In!
Kawanabe Kyosai, S2003.8.496, Setsubun
Snow in Japan
F1902.39
The Search for Ancient China … Begins in New Jersey?
archaeology, collecting, Paul Singer
Freer @ 90: Early Acquisitions
Charles Lang Freer, Freer at 90, James McNeill Whistler
Something Fishy at the Freer House
Charles Lang Freer, Maya Foo
Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky’s the Limit
Sackler 25
Diwali: The Festival of Lights
Diwali, India
Nomads and Networks: Iron and Bronze
archaeology, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Who Ya Gonna Call? (Ghost Edition)
Halloween, Katsushika Hokusai, S2004.3.210
Nomads and Networks in the Field: Magneto and Magnetina
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Food for Thought: Melons, Mangoes, and Mughals
F1942.16a, Mughal dynasty, S1986.230, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Nomads and Networks in the Field: At a Galloping Pace
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Join Us for A Tale of Two Cities: London and DC
James McNeill Whistler, Maya Foo
The Art of the Proposal
F1916.101
Nomads and Networks in the Field: Going for the Bronze
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Nomads and Networks in the Field: The Parachute Edition
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Emperors and Interns: Behind the Scenes of Worlds within Worlds
Mughal dynasty, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Seat of Power: Politics Mughal Style
F1942.15a, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran, Yoga
Traveling the “Roads of Arabia”
Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia
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
You Should Be Dancing
Bollywood, dance, Family Day, India, Sackler 25, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Nomads and Networks in the Field: Introducing Tuzusai
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Inspired by … India!
Bollywood, Family Day, India, Sackler 25
Inspired by….Kathak Dance
dance, Family Day, India, Sackler 25, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Inspired by…Cupcakes
India, Sackler 25, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Inspired by … Light
Family Day, India, Nirupama Rao, Sackler 25, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Inspired by…Rangoli
Family Day, India, Rangoli, Sackler 25, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Inspired by…Bollywood!
Bollywood, Family Day, India, Sackler 25, Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
Nomads, Networks, and Bloggers: Live from Kazakhstan
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Encounters with the Golden Deer: Kazakhstan 101
Alexander Nagel, archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
A Colorful Past
Alexander Nagel, Folklife Festival
“Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples” Closes July 8
Masters of Mercy
Fireworks Freer|Sackler Style
Kobayashi Kiyochika, S2003.8.1197
Peacocks: Four Men in Three Acts
F1901.188, Frederick Richards Leyland, Google Art Project, James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room, Thomas Jeckyll
It’s a Book: The Peacock Room Comes to America
James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Japan: the Apple of Steve Jobs’ Eye?
Hashiguchi Goyo, S2003.8.121
Catch the Wave: Hokusai Closing this Sunday
Ann Yonemura, Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai
Hokusai by the Book
Charles Lang Freer, Freer|Sackler Library, Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai
All Eyes on Venus
astronomy, F1954.34
New On View: Mary Thayer
Abbott Handerson Thayer, F1906.96a, Lee Glazer
Ai Weiwei in Just Over a Minute
Ai Weiwei, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Fragments, Perspectives
Cooking with Whistler’s Mother
F1898.93, James McNeill Whistler
Ai Weiwei: A Model Exhibition
Ai Weiwei, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, exhibition design, Fragments
You Ask, We Answer: Why is it so Dark in Here?
Ann Yonemura, Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai
Animazing!
anime, Hayao Miyazaki, Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai
Honoring a “Transcendent” Contribution
F1967.18, Freer Medal, Japan Spring, John Rosenfield
Grass and Honey: An Interview with Heejin Kim
Eye Wonder Redux
Google Art Project, Peacock Room
Hokusai: Performance Artist
Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai, Sackler 25
Crying Fowl at the Freer!
James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room, Winged Spirits: Birds in Chinese Paintings
Facing East: Kabuki in Honor of Japan Spring
Bando Kotoji, Japan Spring, kabuki, Sackler 25
Fuji to Go: Making Tatebanko
Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai, Sackler 25
Japan Spring in the Sackler Gallery
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, cherry blossoms, Japan Spring, Sackler 25
Curator Ann Yonemura on Hokusai
Ann Yonemura, cherry blossoms, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai, Sackler 25
Sketching the Koto Player
cherry blossoms, Japan Spring, koto, Sackler 25
Cherry Blossom Origami
cherry blossoms, Family Day, Japan Spring, Sackler 25
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
The Politics of Beauty
Women on the Verge of the Twentieth Century
Abbott Handerson Thayer, Charles Lang Freer, Charles Wilmer Dewing, F1896.33a, James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Dewing, women, Women's History Month
Making an Exhibition
bronze, Freer Gallery, jade
Why Bento?
Freer Gallery, James McNeill Whistler