
Detail, Maple Leaves on a Stream (front), Ikeda Koson (1801–1866), Edo period, 1856–58, pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper, Purchase—Harold P. Stern Memorial Fund and funds provided by the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries in appreciation of James W. Lintott and his exemplary service to the Galleries as chair of the Board of Trustees (2011–2015), Freer Gallery of Art, F2014.7.1–2

Left to right: Ritual wine pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals, Anyang or middle Yangzi region, ca. 1100 B.C., bronze, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, F1961.33a–b; Ritual wine-pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie) and dragons, middle or late Anyang period, ca. 1100 B.C., bronze, Gift of Arthur M. Sackler, S1987.279a–b; Ritual wine-pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals, middle Anyang period, ca. 1150–1100 B.C., bronze, Purchase—Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1939.53a–b (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution)
The First Major Exhibition in the United States Dedicated to Anyang, the Capital of Ancient China’s Shang Dynasty and Birthplace of Chinese Archaeology

Left to right: Mary Chase Perry Stratton, Charles Lang Freer, Agnes Meyer, Dikran Kelekian.
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Groundbreaking Exhibition Uncovers and Amplifies the Many Voices and Perspectives That Inform the Museum Collection’s History

“Sunrise in Udaipur,” ca. 1722–23, The City Palace Museum - Udaipur, Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF), Udaipur, 2012.20.0015, detail
Exhibition Presents a New Way of Thinking About and Viewing Indian Paintings With Artworks That Reveal How Artists Conveyed Emotions and Ecologies in Groundbreaking Ways

© Baekje Cultural Land in Chungcheongnam-do, © Buyeo Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, © Iksan National Museum
“Once Upon a Roof: Vanished Korean Architecture” Will be on View May 21 Through Oct. 30

© Baekje Cultural Land in Chungcheongnam-do, © Buyeo Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, © Iksan National Museum

Left: Northeast peak of Phnom Da in 2019. Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province. Photo: Konstanty Kulik, courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Right: Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan (detail), c. 600. Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province, Phnom Da. Sandstone; The Cleveland Museum of Art
“Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain” Opens at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art April 30

(from right) Ichikawa Sadanji as Mizuhiki Seigorō (Kuryūzan
Namiemon), Ichikawa Kodanji as Tobimono Chōjirō, Nakamura
Shikan IV as Yotsuguruma Daihachi, and Onoe Kikugorō V as
Tobikata Hamamatsuchō Tatsugorō, Onoe Matsusuke as Tobimono
Kameemon, Bandō Kakitsu I as Tobimono Fujimatsu, and Onoe
Kōzō as Tobimono Kunimatsu in in the play God's Blessing for the
Reconciliation of the Me-gumi Firemen and the Sumo Wrestlers
(Kami no megumi wagō no torikumi)
Toyohara Kunichika / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
DC: The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection, S2021.5.339a-c
“Underdogs and Antiheroes: Japanese Prints from the Moskowitz Collection” Will Open for the National Cherry Blossom Festival March 19

Landscape;
Josui Sōen (act. late 15th–early 16th century);
Japan, Muromachi period, late 15th-early 16th century;
Ink on paper;
H x W (image): 24.8 x 34 cm;
Gift of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger;
Freer Gallery of Art, F1998.19a-g