Uncategorized Archives - Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

detail of two conservators working on a panel below a window

August 1, 2022August 15, 2022

The Conservation Work Begins!

Three figures of musicians depicted in metalwork from the Sasanian period

March 17, 2021March 16, 2021

Nowruz, Courts, and Music

Ancient Near East, celebrations, equinox, music, Nowruz, Persian, spring

watercolor street scene of women shopping at the fruit market

September 18, 2019March 25, 2020

Why Watercolors, Whistler?

May 7, 2019March 23, 2020

The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads

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

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

February 24, 2012March 25, 2020

Feast Your Eyes: An Interview with Curator Massumeh Farhad

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