Gallery Tour | Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980

  • Gallery Tour | Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980 Event Image

    Date

    Wednesday, June 26, 2024
    12:00 pm–1:00 pm

    Location

    Freer Gallery of Art
    Gallery 5, Gallery 6, Gallery 6a, Gallery 7, Gallery 8

Description

Join us for a curator tour led by Frank Feltens, the museum's curator of Japanese art, of the special exhibition Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980. Learn about the creative ways in which Japanese artists engaged with their neighbor, China, through stunning paintings and calligraphies in the galleries.


Image: Southern star, the bestower of long life, Aoki Mokubei 青木木米 (1767–1863), Japan, 1830, Hanging scroll; ink and light color on satin, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art Collection, The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, F2022.2.1a–f.

Cost

Free

Accessibility & Accommodations

Wheelchair accessible

Topics

Gallery Talks & Tours