Exploring Digital Initiatives through Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture
archaeology, Ars Orientalis, Buddhism, China, digitization, east Asia
Category: Chinese Art
Sensational Buddhism
Buddhism, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Practice, Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, Tibetan Art, Tibetan Shrine Room
Unseen Art History: Ancestor Portraits—Prince Hongming and Lady Wanyan
Art History, Chinese Art, Pritzlaff Collection, provenance, Unseen Art History
![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
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
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
Anachronistic Artworks: Connecting Steampunk to Ancient Chinese Art
Teen Council
Unrooted from the Northern Qi
Embracing the Year of the Dog
Lunar New Year
Chinese Painting Conservation in Action
paintings
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
Chinamania in 3D
Chinamania
National Fossil Day: A Mysterious Mammoth Carving
F1957.25
Jades for Life and Death
Chrysanthemum Wine on the Double Nine
S1987.218
Chinese Red
F1942.20a–c, F2015.2
(Every Day is) Dog Day
S1987.24, S2004.3.25
Word Play
S2004.2.1–21
International Tiger Day
The Man behind the “Mania”
No Hungry Generations Tread Thee Down
F1911.163o
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
A Daylily for Mom
Wu School
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
Ancestors Day
F1916.186
NYFW: Accessories through the Ages
F1907.380, F1907.690, F1911.453, F1957.3, F1990.3a-b, fashion, jewelry, New York Fashion Week, S2001.2
NYFW: Catwalk-Worthy Fashions in Our Collections
fashion
Celebrate the Year of the Monkey
Chinese New Year, Family Day, Xu Bing
The Cosmic Buddha’s New Dimensions
Cosmic Buddha
Shining a Light on Jades at the Freer|Sackler
F1917.28, jade
Friday Fave: Buddhist Stele
Buddhism, Friday Fave, S1991.157
Vote for the Cosmic Buddha in SI’s Summer Showdown!
Buddha, Buddhism, F1923.15, Smithsonian Summer Showdown
Friday Fave: Chinese Bells
digitization, Friday Fave, S1987.285
Friday Fave: Monkeys Grasp for the Moon
digitization, Friday Fave, S2004.2.1–21
Friday Fave: Elephants in the Museum
digitization, Friday Fave
Friday Fave: Vairochana, the Cosmic Buddha
digitization, F1923.15
Celebrate the Lunar New Year at Freer|Sackler
Chinese New Year, F1931.4, Family Day
A Matter of Life and Death
Ars Orientalis, China, F1915.110, Halloween
Larger Than Life: Restoring the Empress Dowager
Empress Dowager Cixi
Remembering Collector Robert H. Ellsworth
calligraphy, F1985.30
Can Your Tea Jar Do This?
Chigusa, tea
The Littlest Tea Man
ceramics, Chigusa, tea
Valentine’s Day: Writing a Poem on a Crimson Leaf
F1917.335, Tang dynasty, Valentine's Day
Happy New Year of the Horse!
Chinese New Year, F1945.32, horses, Tang dynasty
The Search for Ancient China … Begins in New Jersey?
archaeology, collecting, Paul Singer
Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky’s the Limit
Sackler 25
The Art of the Proposal
F1916.101
Ai Weiwei in Just Over a Minute
Ai Weiwei, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Fragments, Perspectives
Ai Weiwei: A Model Exhibition
Ai Weiwei, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, exhibition design, Fragments
Crying Fowl at the Freer!
James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room, Winged Spirits: Birds in Chinese Paintings
Making an Exhibition
bronze, Freer Gallery, jade