Talks and Lectures Archives - Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020

Movies in the Spirit of the Cherry Blossoms

Freer comparing Whistler’s Venus Rising from the Sea (F1903.174) to an Islamic glazed ceramic pot (F1905.61), 1909. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

April 10, 2018March 25, 2020

This Saturday: Reconsider Freer’s Asian Ceramics

Charles Lang Freer

Water-Moon Avalokitesvara (Suwol Gwaneum bosal)

January 24, 2017October 19, 2021

Goryeo Buddhist Painting: A Closer Look

Buddhism, Goryeo period, Korea, paintings

May 3, 2016March 25, 2020

Gardens of Pasargadae

December 9, 2015March 25, 2020

Fish-Teeth and Friendship

jewelry, Mughal dynasty

February 8, 2013March 25, 2020

Mei-ling Hom on Contemporary Korean Ceramics

ceramics, Mei-ling Hom

September 28, 2012March 25, 2020

Join Us for A Tale of Two Cities: London and DC

James McNeill Whistler, Maya Foo

July 13, 2012March 25, 2020

On Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence

Exhibiting Asia, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey

May 30, 2012March 25, 2020

Religion in the Gallery: A First-person Perspective

Exhibiting Asia, Sackler 25

Mynah birds in a plum tree

April 10, 2012March 25, 2020

Honoring a “Transcendent” Contribution

F1967.18, Freer Medal, Japan Spring, John Rosenfield

April 4, 2012March 25, 2020

Grass and Honey: An Interview with Heejin Kim