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  • Print features lime green, white, and magenta outlines of morphing body parts, overlapping on a cyan background

    Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints

    February 15–August 17, 2025

  • Detail of a painting shows a blue-skinned figure standing on a rectangular slab with one arm raised. Two men on each side look at the center figure.

    Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God

    March 15–August 24, 2025

  • A close-up view of a golden metal vessel, hammered into a textured surface with a pattern of interconnected ridges and smooth roundels.

    Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork

    March 2, 2024–January 11, 2026

  • A black jar sits on a red tray. Two more jars wear fabric covers. A floral fabric and wood boxes spread across the background.

    Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped

    April 12, 2025–April 26, 2026

  • A painted landscape with a creek winding through the lush, grassy hillside. A figure holding a fishing rod and a small dog are on the bank, and across the creek, trees blooming in soft pastels cast shadows on the grass.

    Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes

    July 13, 2024–July 26, 2026

  • Three side-by-side close-ups of decorated ceramic vessels. The left-most detail shows a purplish iridescent glaze. The middle detail shows a yellow and white leaf against a pale pink glaze. The right-most detail shows a design of a leaf set against a dark reddish brown glaze.

    Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea

    December 9, 2023–2026

  • A composite image bifurcated by a diagonal white line. On the left is a stylized gold peacock against a green background; on the right is a portrait of a bearded, thin-faced man against a dark background.

    Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room

    July 13, 2024–January 31, 2027

  • Staggered shapes—triangles, circles, and squares—in muted green, purple, and orange tones against a white background. Each shape is a window into a detail from a work of art or an archival photograph of people or places.

    Connecting Stories at the National Museum of Asian Art

    April 29, 2023–ongoing

  • A row of sculpted figures, green with patina, all side by side in the grass and posed in active stances as they stretch their arms up to support a large white stone slab.

    Do Ho Suh: Public Figures

    April 27, 2024–April 29, 2029

  • Detail, white ceramic bowl, painted with red and black floral designs with Arabic script around the edge

    Engaging the Senses: Arts of the Islamic World

    Ongoing

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