Lunar New Year: Then and Now
China, Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year
Category: Events
Lunar New Year: Your Birthday Too
Korea, Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year: Celebrating Seollal
Korea, Lunar New Year
The Epic that Inspired Diwali
Capturing Buddhist Practice around DC
Buddhism, Family Day
This Saturday: Reconsider Freer’s Asian Ceramics
Charles Lang Freer
Japan, Jazz, and Movies at the Freer|Sackler in April
Celebrating the Persian New Year
Nowruz
Women at the Helm
Women's History Month
Embracing the Year of the Dog
Lunar New Year
Introducing the Prince and the Shah
Iran, Iranian Film Festival, The Prince and the Shah
Iran Inside and Out: Final Weekend
Iranian Film Festival, The Prince and the Shah
Happy New Year!
Behind the Scenes: A Perfect Harmony
A Look Back at the 2017 Hong Kong Film Festival
ImaginAsia: Celebrating Stories from the Persian Book of Kings
Nowruz
Utamaro: The Musical at the Freer|Sackler
Kitagawa Utamaro
Music from the Muslim World at the Freer|Sackler
Teaching about World Religions
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
The Art of the Qur’an: Last Day
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
The Art of the Qur’an: One Day Left
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
The Art of the Qur’an: Two Days Left
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
The Art of the Qur’an: Three Days Left
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
The Art of the Qur’an: Four Days Left
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
The Art of the Qur’an: Five Days Left
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
The Art of the Qur’an: Six Days Left
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
The Art of the Qur’an: Seven Days Left
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Chinese New Year: Celebrating with Food and Art
Chinese New Year, Family Day
“The Salesman” Makes Headlines
Iranian Film Festival
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
Visitors Respond to the Art of the Qur’an
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Art Must Bring Change: A Turquoise Mountain-Inspired Project
Turquoise Mountain: Matin Returns
Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Crash Course in Contemporary Chinese Film
Performing Indonesia: Sumarsam
Performing Indonesia
The Art of Qur’anic Recitation
Performing Indonesia
Performing Indonesia: Ismunandar
Performing Indonesia
A Monumental Qur’an
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Rediscovering Afghan Designs
Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Secretary Skorton on “The Art of the Qur’an”
The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Performing Indonesia: Music from Sulawesi and West Java
Performing Indonesia
Art & Me: Conservators in Training
Welcoming NMAAHC with “Kung Fu Wildstyle”
High Fashion for Muslim Wear
Performing Indonesia
Performing Indonesia: Andy McGraw, musician and teacher
Performing Indonesia
Performing Indonesia: Tickets On Sale!
Performing Indonesia
Afghan Arts and PechaKucha
Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Old-School Kung Fu
Memories of Mecca and Medina
Ahmed Mater
Teen Council: A Conversation about Art in Afghanistan
Teen Council, Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Sky Blue
Q&A: The Silk Road Society
Silk Road Society
Heart “Happiness” to Win!
Kicking off Made in Hong Kong
The Man behind the “Mania”
Forever Kiarostami
Artist at Work: Michael Joo
Perspectives
Blooming Art
Japanese Music for the Summer Solstice
World Oceans Day: Songs of Travel
Wu School: Bamboo in Rain
Wu School
Word Nerd Wednesday: jinshi, juren, and jieyuan
Wu School
Turquoise Mountain: How Old is Afghanistan?
Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Turquoise Mountain Artisans: Meet Matin
Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
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
Earth Day: Searching for Plum Blossoms
Earth Day, F1917.108, Wu School
Wu Man Comes to Washington
Turquoise Mountain Artisans: Meet Saeeda
Afghanistan, Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Painting with Words: Gentleman Artists of the Ming Dynasty
F1911.163o, Wu School
Upcoming Films: Receptions and Special Guests
Prints Fit for a Dig
Ernst Herzfeld, Pasargadae
A Man and His Dog . . . and His Boar
Ernst Herzfeld
Ahmed Mater: A to Y
Saudi Arabia
Turquoise Mountain: Jali Woodwork
Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Environmental Film Festival: From the Tundra to the Future
#5WomenArtists: Lara Baladi
Egypt, Lara Baladi, Perspectives
The Beauty of Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Remembering A Memorial
Ernst Herzfeld, Pasargadae
A New Day: Celebrating Nowruz
Nowruz
#5WomenArtists: Sughra Hussainy
Afghanistan, Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan, women, Women's History Month
How Did Turquoise Mountain Get Its Name?
Afghanistan, Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Behind the Scenes of “Turquoise Mountain”
Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Art and Hearts for Valentine’s Day
Valentine's Day
Iranian Film Festival: Grand Finale
Iranian Film Festival
Celebrate the Year of the Monkey
Chinese New Year, Family Day, Xu Bing
A Tour de Force of Iranian Cinema
Making Musical Waves
koto, S2004.3.21
Freer, Marlboro, and the Library of Congress: A Musical History
Meyer Auditorium
Reseeing Iran: Our 20th Iranian Film Festival
Iran, Iranian Film Festival
A Fine Send-off for the Freer
Freer Gallery, renovation
Sending off Suzuki with “Pistol” and “Princess”
Seijun Suzuki
Fish-Teeth and Friendship
jewelry, Mughal dynasty
JACK Quartet and Lightbulb: Indonesian Music with a Twist
gamelan, Indonesia
Sōtatsu Rules the Waves!
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Action, Anarchy, and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective
Seijun Suzuki
Teen Artist Residency: Peacock Printmaking Project
Filthy Lucre, Peacock Room
Close Up: Turkish Filmmaker Ҫağan Irmak
Anime and Manga Summer Camp
Museum TLC: Sound Advice
Asia After Dark
Friday Fave: Lute and White Snake
F1904.134, Friday Fave
Twenty Years of the Hong Kong Film Festival
Hong Kong Film Festival
The Traveler’s Pen
Traveler's Eye: Scenes of Asia
Friday Fave: Nasta‘liq
calligraphy, digitization, F1931.20, F1942.15b, Friday Fave, Nowruz
Celebrate the Lunar New Year at Freer|Sackler
Chinese New Year, F1931.4, Family Day
Discovering Georgian Cinema
Georgia
Arab Jazz: An Interview with Tarek Yamani
Meaning and Melody
F1942.15b, Nasta'liq, Podcasts
Journey to the West: A 400-Year-Old Tale
Hong Kong Film Festival
Whistler and the British Music Hall
F1896.76, James McNeill Whistler
Hong Kong Films: The Vampire Strikes Back
Hong Kong Film Festival
The Littlest Tea Man
ceramics, Chigusa, tea
Music in the Time of Kiyochika
Japan, Kobayashi Kiyochika
Night Light
Thunder on the Mall: Cherry Blossom Edition
cherry blossoms, Japan Spring
Xanthe Gresham: Telling Tales from the Shahnama
Nowruz
“The Bad Sleep Well”: How “Hamlet” Is It?
Akira Kurosawa, Shakespeare
Angry Birds?
Charles Lang Freer, Dewing, F1896.100, F1896.53, Japan, Sylvan Sounds
Abbas Kiarostami’s Landscapes in Motion
Abbas Kiarostami, S1999.124, Sense of Place: Landscape Photographs from Asia
Readers and Movie Lovers: You Have Homework
Japan, Pages of Beauty and Madness
The Clay’s the Thing: Claymation at ImaginAsia
Asia After Dark in 3D
3D, Asia After Dark, Cosmic Buddha
Remembering Leslie Cheung
Hong Kong Film Festival
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Rina Banerjee
Drawing After Dark
Asia After Dark, Korea
The Power of Koringa
S1987.905, Yoga
Pang Ho-Cheung Brings it All Back Home
Hong Kong Film Festival
Book Yoga: The Other Yoga Boom
Yoga
Putting Our Heads Together to Make Yoga History
Yoga
Transformation and the Art of Yoga
Yoga
The Paper Chase: Making Japanese Books
Gerhard Pulverer Collection
Nomads and Networks: Archaeologists Between Digs
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan
Hiaaaaa! Drumroll, Please!
Cherry Blossom Festival, Japan
The Art of the Book
Family Day, Gerhard Pulverer Collection, graphic arts, Japan
Celebrating Nowruz in Cities Ancient and Modern
Babylon, Nowruz, Persepolis, Persia
Inspired by Storytelling
Nowruz, S1986.267, Shahnama
Jiseul Shines Light on a Dark Past
Environmental Film Festival, Korea
Kim Ki-duk Comes Down from the Mountain
Korea
Stars above Pasargadae: Ernst Herzfeld and the Legacies of Cyrus
Cyrus Cylinder, Ernst Herzfeld, Iran
Cyrus in Times Square
Cyrus Cylinder
The Language(s) of Love
Valentine's Day
Mei-ling Hom on Contemporary Korean Ceramics
ceramics, Mei-ling Hom
The Search for Ancient China … Begins in New Jersey?
archaeology, collecting, Paul Singer
Nudes! Guns! Ghosts! Shintoho Films at the Freer
Japan, Shintoho
Roads of Arabia Family Day: Dig In!
archaeology, calligraphy, Family Day, Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, storytelling
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
Nomads and Networks in the Field: Magneto and Magnetina
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
Nomads and Networks in the Field: At a Galloping Pace
archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
DJ Spooky at Asia After Dark
Asia After Dark, DJ Spooky
Getting the Party Started
Asia After Dark
Drum Kit
Asia After Dark
Asia After Dark: Night at the Museum
Asia After Dark
Asia After Dark Begins at 7pm tonight!
Asia After Dark, DJ Spooky
Join Us for A Tale of Two Cities: London and DC
James McNeill Whistler, Maya Foo
Remixing the Museum: An Interview with DJ Spooky
Anna May Wong, Asia After Dark, DJ Spooky
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
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 … 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
Tom Vick in Korea: Now it Gets Interesting…
Korea, Tom Vick
Curator of Film Tom Vick: Korea in Five Scenes
Gyeongju, Hanna Lee, Korea, Lee Chang-dong
Encounters with the Golden Deer: Kazakhstan 101
Alexander Nagel, archaeology, Claudia Chang, Kazakhstan, Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan
On Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence
Exhibiting Asia, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
A Colorful Past
Alexander Nagel, Folklife Festival
“Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples” Closes July 8
Masters of Mercy
It’s a Book: The Peacock Room Comes to America
James McNeill Whistler, Peacock Room
Catch the Wave: Hokusai Closing this Sunday
Ann Yonemura, Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai
Asia After Dark: Afro-Asiatic Mash-up
Asia After Dark, Iona Rozeal Brown, Monstah Black
Religion in the Gallery: A First-person Perspective
Exhibiting Asia, Sackler 25
Garden to Go: Strolling through the Seasons with ImaginAsia
Japan Spring, Smithsonian Gardens
Monks at an Exhibition
Buddhism, Japan Spring, Masters of Mercy, Sackler 25
You Ask, We Answer: Why is it so Dark in Here?
Ann Yonemura, Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan Spring, Katsushika Hokusai
Kimchi, Drinks, and a Movie
Korea, Na Hong-jin
Squeezing is Believing
Ernst Herzfeld, Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran, Persepolis
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
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
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
Cherry Blossom Origami
cherry blossoms, Family Day, Japan Spring, Sackler 25
In the Pink, or Holi: the Hindu Festival of Color
Garden and Cosmos, Hinduism, Holi
Happy Nowruz!
Nowruz
Xanthe Gresham and the Art of Storytelling
Nowruz, storytelling, Xanthe Gresham
Azar Nafisi: My Father’s Shahnameh
Nowruz
They Came, They Saw, They Slurped: Noodles and a Movie at the Freer
Ang Lee, Chinese New Year, Hou Chun-sheng, Taiwan