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Mandala Lab
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Oct 01, 2021 to Oct 30, 2027
Detail: An Interactive Space for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning

The Mandala Lab, located on the Museum’s remodeled third floor, invites curiosity about our emotions. Consider how complex feelings show up in your everyday life and imagine how you might have the power to transform them.
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Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea
Place: Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Dec 09, 2023 to Dec 09, 2026
Detail: Japan’s rich history of ceramic artistry developed in large part alongside the culture of drinking tea. The practice of preparing and serving matcha, powdered green tea, was called chanoyu (literally, “hot water for tea”) and gained popularity in the sixteenth century. Japanese tea practitioners initially used Chinese and Korean antique ceramics as tea bowls but began using newly made Japanese tea bowls, such as Raku ware, in the sixteenth century. Raku ware shares its name with the family that has made these ceramics in Kyoto since the sixteenth century. Unlike most tea bowls, Raku ceramics are built by hand—a process described as “knotting clay”—as opposed to using a wheel. Sixteenth-century potters are said to have collaborated closely with their tea-practitioner patrons to create distinctive vessels best-suited for tea drinking.

Over the next four centuries, a network of Japanese potters incorporated Raku techniques into their practice; these techniques were later adopted in the 1950s by the American studio pottery movement. Raku wares are now internationally recognized as a Japanese ceramic style and continue to inspire artistic creativity worldwide. Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea explores these distinctive, hand-molded ceramics and their close relationship to Japanese tea culture. This exhibition features tea bowls, water containers, and other vessels in the museum’s permanent collection that demonstrate the glazes and forms unique to Raku ware.
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Do Ho Suh: Public Figures
Place: National Museum of Asian Art | Freer Plaza - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Apr 27, 2024 to Apr 29, 2029
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Samurai Spirit: Swords, Accessories, and Paintings
Place: San Antonio Museum of Art - San Antonio, 200 West Jones Avenue, Texas, USA
Date: Jan 06, 2025 to Jan 03, 2027
Detail: January 6, 2024 – January 3, 2027
Asian Special Exhibitions Gallery, 2nd Floor West

Learn about the Japanese samurai and their appreciation of finely honed skills in forging and polishing steel to make weapons of lethal beauty.

First recounted by oral narratives, the stories of battles, heroic pursuits, and famous samurai warriors became popular subjects of literature, theater, and pictorial arts that have endured through the ages. And their swords, polished and decorated, were revered as treasured emblems of their honorable heritage.

This exhibit features two important fourteenth century swords, a wakizashi, a short sword signed by the maker, Yoshioka Ishimonji Sukehide, dated to July, 1363, and a katana, a longer sword typically wielded with two hands, that were purchased with funds realized from the sale of the late Robert Clemons’s bequest to SAMA. Japanese swords are admired for the strength of the steel, which comes from heating and folding the metal many times, and by shaping the steel to a fine, sharp blade.

Other samurai weapons and objects round out this introduction to a major aspect of traditional Japanese culture.

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Risham Syed: Destiny Fractured
Place: The Newark Museum - Newarj, 49 Washington St., New Jersey, USA
Date: May 16, 2025 to Mar 07, 2027
Detail: The sixth artist to develop an exhibition of works based on The Newark Museum of Art’s collection, Risham Syed addresses colonialism, capitalism, and climate change.

Some of the inspirational artworks from the NMOA collection include American landscapes, Chinese scroll paintings, and the period rooms in The Ballantine House. The artist has created new artworks for the exhibition that will be presented alongside her previous installations and NMOA collection objects in the Global Contemporary galleries as well as in the landscape gallery in Seeing America. Syed has produced art in a variety of mediums, including videos, embroidered silk panels, installations with paintings and objects, and printed textiles.
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Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
Place: The Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, 200 Eastern Parkway, New York, USA
Date: Jun 11, 2025 to Apr 19, 2031
Detail: Since its debut in 2013, the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room has been one of the Rubin Museum’s most popular installations, providing an immersive experience inspired by a traditional shrine. Now the Shrine Room travels to Brooklyn where it is on view for six years in the Brooklyn Museum’s Arts of Asia galleries as part of a multiyear collaboration.

The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room presents more than 100 artworks and ritual objects as they would be displayed in an elaborate Tibetan Buddhist household shrine—a space used for devotional prayer, offerings, and rituals. Scroll paintings (thangkas), sculptures, ritual implements, and musical instruments dating from the 12th to 21st century are arranged on traditional Tibetan furniture according to their use in Tibetan Buddhist practices. Chanted prayers by monks and nuns, flickering butter lamps, and the subtle smell of incense reflect the cultural practices and remind visitors that Buddhist rituals engage all of the senses. The design incorporates elements of Tibetan architecture and the color schemes of traditional Tibetan homes, offering visitors the opportunity to experience Tibetan religious art in its cultural context.
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About a Living Culture
Place: Diversity Plaza - New York, Jackson Heights, USA
Date: Sep 06, 2025 to Sep 13, 2026
Detail: On September 6 the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation Art Program, NYC DOT Art, will unveil a new temporary public art installation by Nepalese artist IMAGINE (a.k.a. Sneha Shrestha) in Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights, Queens. For her first public art sculpture, IMAGINE has created a six-foot-tall installation in the shape of a golden arch made of repeating rows of ‘Ka,’ the first letter of the Nepali alphabet. Titled About a Living Culture, the artwork is a celebration of the artist’s Nepalese heritage and inspired by the diverse Himalayan cultures of the neighborhood.

IMAGINE, who is from Nepal and currently works in Boston and Kathmandu, creates sculptures, paintings, and public murals around the world that often incorporate her native language and blend the aesthetics of Sanskrit scriptures with graffiti art. Her distinctive style accentuates the Devanagari script—used to write languages such as Nepali, Sanskrit, and Hindi—creating meditative artworks that transform spaces.
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Animal Power
Place: Harvard Art Museums - Cambridge, 32 Quincy Street, Massachusetts, USA
Date: Oct 22, 2025 to Oct 21, 2026
Detail: This is an exploration of the diverse range of animal representations in a recent installation in our Islamic and South Asian art galleries, including their symbolic meanings and cultural significance. On view in the Islamic art gallery (2550) are a 16th-century Persian carpet depicting hunting animals, a selection of ceramic and metal sculptural objects, often serving functional purposes, from 13th- and 19th-century Iran, and contemporary glass birds by Turkish artist Felekşan Onar. The display in the South Asian art gallery (2590) includes a devotional painting showing animal mounts of Hindu deities, 18th-19th century, a textile featuring Hindu mythical animals in an ogival lattice design from the Islamic world, c. 1700, and a Gujarati embroidery with rainbow-colored birds, 15th century.
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Word in Flower: Arts of Buddhism
Place: Portland Art Museum - Portland, 1219 SW Park Ave, USA
Date: Nov 20, 2025 to Nov 20, 2026
Detail: This exhibition highlights the Museum’s small collection of Buddhist art, most of which originates from East Asia. Featuring sculpture, calligraphy, painting, photography, and more, the exhibition explores diverse expressions of Buddhist visual culture in this region from the 6th to 21st centuries. Some of the Museum’s rarest works of sacred art, such as precious sutra fragments and representations of the Buddha and bodhisattvas, are joined by secular works on Buddhist themes from the twentieth century and recent work by living artists.

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Kenji Nakahashi: Between Things
Place: Portland Art Museum - Portland, 1219 SW Park Ave, Oregon, USA
Date: Nov 20, 2025 to Nov 20, 2026
Detail: Japanese photographer Kenji Nakahashi (1947–2017) moved to New York City in 1973, finding in the city the creative inspiration that would sustain his practice for the rest of his life. Both playful and profound, his conceptual approach to photography posed questions about everyday objects, materials, and surfaces. From the mundane, his images raise meaningful questions about the distance or difference between things, and about the relationship between parts of a whole. Alongside Nakahashi’s photographs, a selection of tea bowls by contemporary Japanese ceramicists invites viewers to consider Nakahashi’s questions in another, very different medium. All works featured in this exhibition are new acquisitions, on view for the first time.

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MAKERS: The Culture of Craft
Place: Portland Art Museum - Portland, 1219 SW Park Ave, Oregon, USA
Date: Nov 20, 2025 to Nov 20, 2026
Detail: Makers illuminates the virtuosity of maker and material in Japan. Looking across time periods, this exhibition explores the porous boundaries between art, craft, design, and labor. Works on display range from Bizen pottery to lacquerware, hanging scroll paintings to bamboo sculpture, and metalwork that straddles the line between craft and fine art. These works invite consideration of materials and technique, as well as questions of identity and mastery—the named artist and the anonymous craftsperson—as well as function and aesthetics, and the emotional power of superbly crafted objects. Featuring many new acquisitions on view for the first time, the exhibition also nods to Portland’s own maker culture, which has long made the city a destination for creatives.

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Cloud Dream of the Nine: Stories of a Painting
Place: Portland Art Museum - Portland, 1219 SW Park Ave, Oregon, USA
Date: Nov 20, 2025 to Nov 20, 2026
Detail: This exhibition focuses on a newly conserved Korean screen painting of Guunmong, or The Cloud Dream of the Nine, a popular late seventeenth-century novel. One of the best extant examples of this subject, the screen has undergone full-scale conservation treatment in Korea, restoring it to its original appearance. The exhibition explores the various stories this object has to tell: from the painting’s lively narrative to the story of how it came to the Museum, and the discoveries made through the conservation process. Ceramics and furnishings from the Joseon period (1392–1910) provide context for the setting in which genre paintings of this type may have been displayed and enjoyed in the nineteenth century. Made possible by a generous grant from the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, the exhibition highlights the Portland Art Museum’s international collaboration with scholars and conservators in Korea.

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Heaven and Earth: Chinese Art from the Collections
Place: Portland Art Museum - Portland, 1219 SW Park Ave, Oregon, USA
Date: Nov 20, 2025 to Nov 20, 2026
Detail: Heaven and Earth spotlights powerful works of art in the Museum’s collections, spanning creative practices in China across several millennia. Historic objects and more recent works are brought into conversation, offering different perspectives on how we make meaning of the world and the diversity and creativity of Chinese artists and makers. Highlights include the Museum’s Han dynasty money tree, made of delicately filigreed bronze branches and leaves, and the Warring States period antlered tomb guardian (Zhenmushou), unique to the Chu culture. Among the highlights of more recent work by living artists is the monumental ink painting Heaven and Earth, by contemporary artist Hung Hsien, from which the exhibition takes its title. A rare, fine-line landscape by Shen Zhou (1427–1509), one of the most famous painters of the Ming dynasty, will be displayed in sections, allowing viewers to experience this exceptional, ambitious handscroll in its entirety over successive rotations.

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Qiu Zhijie: Map of the History of Science and Technology
Place: Olympic Sculpture Park - Seattle, 2901 Western Avenue, Washington, USA
Date: Jan 28, 2026 to Jan 31, 2029
Detail: For the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park, the artist designed a Map of the History of Science and Technology. In this project, Qiu interweaves scientific and technical advancements in Asia and the West from ancient to contemporary times. The map calls out the discovery of bronze and iron, the invention of the wheel, the abacus and mathematical and scientific theorems, the plow, celadon ware, Roman cement, paper making, feats of engineering across the globe, as well as the bicycle, photography, acupuncture, the flush toilet, and more. The map traces the interconnectedness of ideas that have shaped the course of history across the globe. Born in 1969 in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China, Qiu Zhijie is a leading figure in conceptual art and new media. Trained in traditional calligraphy, he is celebrated for imaginary maps in which he turns milestone developments in philosophy, sociology, art, culture, and science into topographic equivalents of a memory palace. Initially creating works small in scale, he gradually adapted the format to large-scale wall installations. Graduating from the Department of Printmaking at the Zhejiang Academy of Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, in 1992, Qiu was instrumental in developing the school’s Department of Intermedia Arts. Since 2024, Qiu has served as the President of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. He is also Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; and Professor of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.

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Mythical Creatures: The Stories We Carry
Place: USC Pacific Asia Museum - Pasadena, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, California, USA
Date: Feb 14, 2026 to Sep 06, 2026
Detail: A major exhibition that transforms USC Pacific Asia Museum into an immersive journey through myth and the immigrant story, Mythical Creatures: The Stories We Carry is sweeping in scale and deeply personal in tone, its narrative written in verse in a voice evocative of a wise elder to a loved one. The exhibition draws approximately 100 objects from USC PAM’s significant collection—which spans more than 5,000 years and includes art from East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, and the Pacific Islands and their diasporas— blending them with new media technology and works by more than 20 contemporary artists, including several commissions. The result is an interdisciplinary experience in which visitors engage with the past not only through didactic explanation, but through creative activations of pan-Asian mythology that ignite feeling and memory.

Contemporary artists represented include Dinh Q. Lê, Lily Honglei, Wendy Park, Momoko Schafer, Kyungmi Shin, Sanjay Vora, and Lauren YS.
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Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean
Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 22 - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Mar 07, 2026 to Sep 07, 2026
Detail: Blessing Ceremony: Saturday, March 7, 2-3pm
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 22

At the dawn of time, the Hindu god Vishnu slept on a coiled serpent floating in the primordial ocean. There, he dreamed the universe into existence. This magnificent story of creation comes to life through the largest bronze ever cast in Southeast Asia, now on loan to us from the National Museum of Cambodia.

For the first time in centuries, you can experience this sculpture’s full monumental scale: a breathtaking six meters long (nearly twenty feet). Only the head and torso have been displayed since 1936, when the sculpture was found buried in a pit with dozens of loose bronze fragments. A team of international experts has recently conserved and reconnected the body’s remnants after decades of scientific research.

Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean presents this monumental masterpiece of Cambodian artistry and explores its rich context. Delve into the sculpture’s original island-like temple, the deep blue waters of the surrounding reservoir, and the ancient city of Angkor. Learn about water’s cultural importance as a mirror of the ocean of creation, and admire the exceptional bronze-casting and engineering skills of artists who lived a thousand years ago.

An exclusive film brings you to the present-day reservoir and its surrounding community. Cambodian American director praCh Ly shares a day in the life of a local fisherman, a merchant, and a young Buddhist monk. Titled Awkun (meaning “thank you” in Khmer), this film draws attention to the relationships that bridge sacred and urban spaces, from past to present.

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Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
Place: Olympic Sculpture Park - Seattle, 2901 Western Avenue, Washington, USA
Date: Mar 07, 2026 to Oct 24, 2027
Detail: Get up close with Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010) at the Olympic Sculpture Park, where you can walk among these monumental sculptures. Consisting of 12 zodiac head sculptures arranged in an arcing semicircle, each animal in Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads stands over ten feet tall and weighs over 1500 pounds. The sculptures are installed in order of the traditional Chinese zodiac cycle: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar.

The works reconceive the 12 zodiac heads that decorated an 18th-century Qing imperial fountain before they were looted during the Second Opium War (1856–60). Seven are based on the original heads that have survived, and Ai researched and reimagined the five animals still missing to complete the zodiac. This work embodies Ai’s long-standing questioning of our tendency to value the real over the fake and the original over the copy.

Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads joins over twenty monumental sculptures in the park, including The Eagle (1971) by Alexander Calder, Wake (2002–3) by Richard Serra, and Seattle Cloud Cover (2006) by Teresita Fernández. See this temporary installation situated in the Ackerly Meadow, just outside of the PACCAR Pavilion at the Olympic Sculpture Park. Seattle’s largest green space, the nine-acre sculpture park, is free and open daily from thirty minutes before sunrise to thirty minutes after sunset.
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Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy
Place: Asia Society - New York, 725 Park Avenue, USA
Date: Mar 18, 2026 to Jan 03, 2027
Detail: In celebration of Asia Society’s 70th anniversary, Asia Society Museum presents Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy.

Displaying seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States drawn from Asia Society’s permanent collection, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of bronzes, ceramics, and metalwork thoughtfully assembled between the 1950s and the 1970s by John D. Rockefeller 3rd (1906-1978) and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (1909-1992). John D. Rockefeller 3rd founded Asia Society in 1956 with the mission to promote greater knowledge of Asia in the United States; the bequest of the collection to Asia Society in 1979 underscores the Rockefellers’ conviction that an aesthetic encounter with great works of art promotes deep cross-cultural understanding.

With highlights including spectacular Buddhist and Hindu sculptures, and rare Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ceramics, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon celebrates historic achievements in Asian art spanning more than two millennia. The exhibition foregrounds the transformative power of faith and the catalyzing potential of international trade in the creation of great works of art across Asia.

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon presents a special opportunity for museum visitors to experience the unparalleled quality of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at its home at Asia Society Museum in New York City.
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A Legacy Continued: Recent Acquisitions to the Asia Society Museum Collection
Place: Asia Society - New York, 725 Park Avenue, USA
Date: Mar 18, 2026 to Jan 03, 2027
Detail: A Legacy Continued features recent acquisitions received from Sandra Ferry Rockefeller and Hope Aldrich in honor of their parents, John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller. These gifts were originally part of Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller’s personal collection, and this display celebrates their homecoming. These pieces complement other works within the museum collection, some of which are included in this exhibition. Together, they offer greater opportunities for comparative studies among them.

Two Chola bronze statues of Hindu deities from Hope Aldrich—a Shiva and a Satyabhama—add to the already magnificent group of Indian Chola bronzes in the collection. From Sandra Ferry, two lovely gilt bronze Chinese Buddhist statues augment the museum’s existing Chinese Buddhist sculptures, while the addition of three Thai works furthers the collection’s strength in Southeast Asian sculpture. See Selected Works in the Exhibition to preview some of these important gifts.
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Legendary Landscapes: Sublime Visions from China’s Song Dynasty
Place: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City, 4525 Oak Street, Missouri, USA
Date: Mar 21, 2026 to Sep 27, 2026
Detail: Deep ties between the natural world and spiritual practice have nourished the significant role of shanshui (mountain and water, “landscape”) in Chinese art for thousands of years. This role reached a new height of artistic importance during the Song dynasty (960–1279 C.E.), when imperial collectors encouraged the creation of innovative landscape paintings. This exhibition brings legendary landscapes into focus, presenting an exceptional opportunity to view world treasures in the museum’s collection.

These paintings embody the profound connections between humans, the natural world, and the greater cosmos. Through the eyes of people who traverse the landscapes, we see each painting as a microcosm of the universe presented through multiple visual perspectives. In turn, the order and completeness of Song dynasty landscapes align with the ideals of an enlightened and benevolent empire.

The museum’s rich collection extends from the Northern Song period (960–1127) to the Southern Song (1127–1279), when political conflict forced the court to relocate from the chilly north to the warmer south. The paintings’ distinctive terrains and shifting moods reflect the change in the environment. Illustrating personal journeys in nature, they encourage self-reflection and contemplation.

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Navigating through Centuries: From Ancient to Global Contemporary in Korean Art
Place: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art - Eugene, 1430 Johnson Lane, Oregon, USA
Date: Apr 25, 2026 to Mar 21, 2027
Detail: Navigating through Centuries surveys the complex trajectory of art in Korea, which was significantly impacted by socio-political upheaval and cultural developments from the fifth century to the present. The exhibition is comprised of six chronological thematic sections — from the power and religion of the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE), to the refined aristocratic ideals of the Goryeo (918–1392) and Confucian governance of the Joseon (1392–1910) dynasties, through vestiges of tradition after the Korean War (1950–1953), experimental practices during the modern era, and globalization of contemporary art. Each section examines how aesthetic practices respond to the evolving philosophies, ideologies, critical events, and issues of a specific historical period.
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Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema
Place: Mingei International Museum - San Diego, Balboa Park, 1439 El Prado, California, USA
Date: Oct 10, 2026 to Apr 04, 2027
Detail: Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema exhibition highlights one of Japan’s most fascinating folk painting traditions, ema – house-shaped wooden votive plaques offered as prayers in Japan’s Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Most ema are small and traditionally feature hand-painted imagery of deities, animals, or objects, representing wishes as general as good fortune for the coming year or as specific as the removal of warts. The objects are overflowing with color, hope, and humor, including some very surprising visual puns. For centuries, worshippers have inscribed these ema with impassioned prayers and hung them up on wooden stands outside shrine and temple halls, hoping that the gods will read them and grant their wishes before the end of the year, when the plaques are ritually burned. Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema will present the history of this religious painting tradition, explain the different uses of large and small ema, and introduce the many different categories of images and the prayers associated with each of them. Curated by Japanese art historian Meher McArthur, this will be the first museum exhibition in the United States to present such an extensive and varied display of ema, both large and small, ranging from the 18th century to the present day.
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Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts
Place: V&A South Kensington - London, Cromwell Road, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 28, 2025 to Sep 27, 2026
Detail: In the 1980s, Chinese artists began to reimagine craft as a medium for artistic expression. This display explores the dimensions of studio craft practice in China today, and the innovations which have grown from China's longstanding craft tradition.
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Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Place: V&A South Kensington - London, Cromwell Road, United Kingdom
Date: Aug 10, 2026 to Jan 10, 2027
Detail: A landmark collaboration between the V&A and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane.

Rising Voices offers an unparalleled view of the Asia Pacific region’s dynamic creative landscape. Foregrounding First Nations perspectives and diverse artistic approaches, the exhibition features rare works by over 40 pioneering creatives.
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Korea
Place: The British Museum - London, Great Russell Street, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 01, 2026 to Jan 31, 2027
Detail: Discover 2,000 years of Korean creativity – through works spanning from around 300 BC to the present day.

Featuring outstanding examples of sculpture, painting and decorative arts over two millennia – up to the present day – the exhibition presents the most comprehensive chronological survey of Korean visual and material culture seen in Europe for over 40 years.

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Salman Toor: Someone Like You
Place: The Courtauld Gallery - London, Somerset House, Strand, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 02, 2026 to Jan 10, 2027
Detail: The first solo exhibition in Europe of the celebrated New York-based painter Salman Toor.

The exhibition focuses on Salman Toor’s exploration of human interactions and the desire and struggle to experience a sense of belonging, both culturally and emotionally. The exhibition will bring together 19 of the artist’s most iconic, thought-provoking and at times humorous paintings, never-before-seen in Britain, that represent people in shared moments of friendship and love, as well as experiencing solitude and alienation.
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Solo Exhibition by Tom Vattakuzhy
Place: AstaGuru - London, 4 Cromwell Place, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 14, 2026 to Nov 10, 2026
Detail: Presented in collaboration with ICIA Gallery, this exhibition features the work of contemporary Indian artist Tom Vattakuzhy. He is known for his quiet domestic scenes, often described as poetic, intimate, and introspective, evoking moments suspended between reality and dream. Beneath their stillness lie stories of displacement, alienation, and the lived experiences of those pushed to the margins, revealing how political and social realities shape everyday life.
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Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi Collection
Place: Dulwich Picture Gallery - London, 14 Gallery Road, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 20, 2026 to Jan 17, 2027
Detail: See the complete series of one of the most celebrated image cycles in art history, inviting visitors to experience Mount Fuji as Hokusai saw it nearly two centuries ago.

The exhibition brings one of the world’s most iconic print series to London. Created between 1830 and 1833, the exhibition presents, for the first time in the UK, the complete set of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, Japan’s most celebrated printmaker.
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Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Circle, A Square, A Puzzle
Place: Dulwich Picture Gallery - London, 14 Gallery Road, United Kingdom
Date: Sep 21, 2027 to Jan 16, 2028
Detail: A major retrospective of a visionary post-war modernist.

The first major museum retrospective of Anwar Jalal Shemza (1928-1985) in over 30 years celebrates one of the most original voices of post-war modernism.

Featuring more than 80 works, the exhibition traces Shemza's remarkable career across painting, printmaking, textiles, sketchbooks and archival material. His distinctive visual language merged geometric abstraction, references to Urdu script and influences drawn from both Lahore and Britain.
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Engage with history through art at Temple, National Gallery Singapore’s first rooftop installation integrating kinetic motion and sound
Place: National Gallery Singapore - Singapore, 1 St Andrew's Road, Singapore 178957, Singapore
Date: Oct 25, 2025 to Oct 11, 2026
Detail: Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery, Level 5

Embark on a meditative experience at Temple, a new participatory artwork by Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Commissioned by National Gallery Singapore for its Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series and presented as part of Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention, Temple invites visitors to reflect on history and contemplate the impact of war through a multisensorial experience that blends kinetic motion and sound – underscoring the Gallery's mission to connect the art of Singapore and Southeast Asia to the world and foster critical dialogue on global issues through art.

Featuring bells and mobiles crafted from recovered and defused unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the Vietnam War, visitors are encouraged to strike the defused shells, gongs, and chimes, creating a meditative soundscape. Through this transformation of weapons of war into instruments of peace, Nguyen inspires ideas of karmic balance, reincarnation, and the memories embedded within materials, offering a powerful lens for healing and reconciliation.

Temple is the eighth edition of the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission.
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Momentary Pulses: Art in the Central Business District
Place: Various sites across Singapore’s CBD (from Raffles Place to Tanjong Pagar) - Singapore, Singapore
Date: Jan 30, 2026 to Dec 31, 2027
Detail: Date: 30 January 2026 – 31 December 2027
Venue: Various sites across Singapore’s CBD (from Raffles Place to Tanjong Pagar)
Admission: Free

Presented by The Everyday Museum (a public art initiative by Singapore Art Museum), Momentary Pulses is a public art trail that invites you to slow down and encounter art in the daily flow of life. Spanning overlooked and interstitial public spaces like linkways, open plazas and MRT passages, seven newly commissioned installations by Singapore based artists respond to the sights, sounds and commercial pulse of the Central Business District (CBD) — turning routine journeys into moments of reflection and imagination.

Featuring works by Song-Ming Ang, Finbarr Fallon, Catherine Hu, Zul Mahmod, collaborative duo Teow Yue Han and Federico Ruberto, Yang Jie and Immanuel Koh, the trail reveals the textures and histories embedded within Singapore’s urban core. The works will be launched in two phases, with the first phase featuring five installations by Song-Ming Ang, Finbarr Fallon, Catherine Hu, Zul Mahmod, and the collaborative duo Teow Yue Han and Federico Ruberto. The remaining two works by Yang Jie and Immanuel Koh will be introduced in the later part of 2026. Each installation is sited within walking distance in the CBD, including stops near OUE Link (Raffles Place), One Raffles Quay (North Tower), Asia Square (Tower 1), Shenton House, and Tanjong Pagar MRT (Exit G). Look out for kinetic and sound-based installations, AI-driven works, sculptural interventions, and site-specific gestures that reframe how we perceive the city’s everyday infrastructures. Together, these works offer distinct lenses on movement, memory, technology and transformation — encouraging new ways of seeing a district in constant motion.

As part of the public art trail’s opening, The Everyday Museum launches Story Scape (30 January – 8 February 2026), a festival organised in collaboration with StoryFest. The festival extends the trail through exciting storytelling performances, artist talks and an evening audiovisual experience at RASA Space. Programme details will be announced on SAM’s channels.
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Brandon Tay: Sangkalan
Place: Singapore - Singapore, Singapore
Date: Apr 15, 2026 to Oct 25, 2026
Detail: Step into Brandon Tay: Sangkalan, an evolving installation of a fictional island ecosystem where fragments of a “lost” coastal culture are shaped through three species — a fruit, an insect, and a bird. Together, their rhythms of growth, flight and song weave a vivid picture of how humans and nature might share perception, memory, and meaning.

Travelling across four regional libraries in Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong and Punggol, the installation unfolds as a living archive that evolves with each presentation. Visitors can encounter new elements over time, making each stop a slightly different experience. Through vibrant textiles, sculptural forms, and archival materials, Singaporean artist Brandon Tay translates the island’s collective memories into a language of colour, geometry, and symbols. Echoing the decentralised logic of blockchain networks, Sangkalan invites visitors to reimagine information systems, their origins and how nature might inspire new ways of sensing, connecting, and remembering.

Brandon Tay: Sangkalan is held in collaboration with the National Library Board. Through the Library showcases, SAM continues to extend contemporary art beyond traditional museum settings and into civic and community spaces, encouraging encounters with contemporary art in unexpected and accessible everyday environments.

Venues:
15 April – 31 May 2026: Woodlands Regional Library
3 June – 19 July 2026: Tampines Regional Library
22 July – 6 September 2026: Jurong Regional Library
9 September – 25 October 2026: Punggol Regional Library

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form is Emptiness
Place: Singapore Art Museum - Singapore, Singapore
Date: May 29, 2026 to Oct 04, 2026
Detail: Singapore Art Museum proudly presents Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form is Emptiness, the first major solo exhibition in Southeast Asia dedicated to the practice of internationally renowned Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. Conceived in dialogue with the Buddhist cosmological concept of the Five Elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Void), the exhibition unfolds across five interconnected sections that loop into one another, mirroring the cyclical rhythms of nature and life. This elemental framework reflects Sugimoto’s enduring inquiry into time, perception, and the structure of reality.

Bringing together over 60 works spanning five decades of his multidisciplinary practice, including significant, new, and rarely seen works, the exhibition reveals the breadth of Sugimoto’s oeuvre across photography, sculpture, and large-scale installation. From his meditative seascapes to architectural interventions and contemplative objects, Sugimoto’s works delicately balance a strong material presence with a deep metaphysical inquiry.

Form is Emptiness offers an immersive introduction to the work of one of the world’s most significant contemporary artists. Moving between permanence and impermanence, visibility and void, the exhibition invites audiences to slow down and consider how form itself can become a vessel for reflection, and how, through Sugimoto’s lens, the material world becomes a mirror for the mind.

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Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage
Place: Singapore Art Museum - Singapore, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-02, Singapore 089065, Singapore
Date: Jul 24, 2026 to Nov 22, 2026
Detail: Singapore Art Museum (SAM) presents Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage, the first monographic museum exhibition in Singapore by acclaimed Filipino artist Maria Taniguchi.

Anchored by Taniguchi’s ongoing series of “brick paintings”—large-scale canvases composed through the repeated hand-painting of brick-like forms—the exhibition explores recurring themes in her practice including repetition, time, and labour.

Afterimage brings together Taniguchi’s key works across painting, sculpture and moving image, offering an overview of her multidisciplinary practice. Alongside the “brick paintings,” the exhibition features a site-specific iteration of her Runaways sculptures and four video works produced between 2010–2026. From Java plum wood sculptures to video works examining memory and labour, the selection reveals the conceptual rigour and quiet intensity of one of Southeast Asia’s most significant contemporary artists.

Presented following Taniguchi’s first survey exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, Afterimage invites audiences to encounter the materiality, scale, and rhythm through an intimate exhibition setting at their own pace.

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Asian Art in London
Place: Central London - London, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 10, 2026
Detail: Asian Art in London continues to promote London as a centre of excellence for the arts of Asia. Each year, during October and November, a diverse and expansive programme of specialised exhibitions and auctions is hosted in and around Central London. These events are presented by respected dealers, galleries and auction houses specialising in Asian art, offering a wide range of works for sale. These works span the Indian and Islamic worlds, China, Japan, Korea, and South-East Asia, and include both ancient and contemporary works, as well as representative and abstract art.

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Sencha to Sculpture: The Evolution of Japanese Bamboo Art to the 1960s
Place: TAI Modern - Santa Fe, 1601 Paseo de Peralta, USA
Date: Aug 28, 2026 to Oct 10, 2026
Detail: TAI Modern is pleased to present Sencha to Sculpture: The Evolution of Japanese Bamboo Art to the 1960s, an exhibition following the transformation of Japanese bamboo art from tea ceremony utensils to sculptural form. This first installment of a planned three-part series brings together nearly 50 bamboo works and introduces pieces from the Minminsai lineage, including a signed basket by Kobayashi Minminsai I (d. 1791). This basket predates the work of Hayakawa Shokosai I (1815-1897), who has long been credited as the first Japanese bamboo artist to sign his work, identifying Minminsai I, rather than Hayakawa, as the earliest confirmed signer in the history of the medium.
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Observed & Imagined: Indian Painting 17th – 19th Century
Place: Francesca Galloway - London, No 10, 56 Holland Park, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 12, 2026 to Nov 16, 2026
Detail: Indian paintings which draw on the richness and diversity of India’s artistic production over three centuries.
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ASIAN WORKS OF ART AUTUMN 2026: CHINA AND KOREA
Place: Alice Williamson - London, Daniel Crouch Rare Books, 4 Bury Street, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 04, 2026
Detail: Ceramics and works of art from China and Korea including Song ceramics from important private collections

Thursday 29th October to Wednesday 4th November
Daniel Crouch Rare Books, 4 Bury Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6AB

OPENING HOURS
Thursday 29th October – Wednesday 4th November 2026
Thursday 29th October: 10.00-18.00
Friday 30th October: 10.00-18.00
Saturday 31st October: 10.00-18.00
Sunday 1st November: 10.00-20.00
Monday 2nd November: 10.00-18.00
Tuesday 3rd November: 10.00-18.00
Wednesday 4th November: 10.00-12.00

Touching Shadows
Place: Simon Pilling @ The Lavery Pavilion, The Lavery - London, 4 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 03, 2026
Detail: The appreciation of Japanese lacquer, urushi, resonates with many of Japan’s traditional aesthetic concepts. In assembling the collection of objects for this exhibition I invite viewers to reflect on these values and their increasingly universal importance to our lives today: memories of past events and lives, important moments in everyday rituals. The pieces span 600 years – from 15th century to contemporary work, from anonymous craftsmen to Living National Treasures recognised by the Japanese government for their essential role in continuing Japan’s unique artistic history.
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THE LIVING TAPESTRY: India's Natural World Through Timeless Traditions
Place: Anrad Gallery - London, United Kingdom
Date: Nov 01, 2026 to Nov 15, 2026
Detail: The exhibition presents finely rendered depictions of flora and fauna from the natural world interpreted through the lens of distinct artistic traditions practiced by diverse communities across India. The artists are from the Gadhwa kam sculptors of Chattisgarh, Orissa Pattachittra, the Bikaner and Mughal miniature artistic traditions. The exhibition underscores our timeless fascination with the natural world, presented here through diverse visual languages.

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Earth and Spirit: Timeless Beauty
Place: Lam & Co Antiquities - Central, 2/F 151 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong
Date: Oct 27, 2026 to Nov 06, 2026
Detail: OPENING HOURS
Monday to Friday: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Sat-Sun: By Appointment
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Hiroshige: Colors of the Four Seasons | The Alan Medaugh Collection
Place: Christie's - New York, 20 Rockefeller Center, USA
Date: Sep 15, 2026
Detail: Viewing
11 Sep 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
12 Sep 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
13 Sep 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
14 Sep 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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Ritual, Cosmos, and Imperial Splendor: Important Chinese Art from a North American Private Collection
Place: Christie's - New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, USA
Date: Sep 17, 2026
Detail: This autumn, Christie’s New York presents the sale Ritual, Cosmos, and Imperial Splendor: Important Chinese Art from a North American Private Collection. Together, these themes provide a lens through which to understand the objects in this sale, while also revealing the profound interconnectedness of religion, imperial authority, and artistic achievement in shaping Chinese cultures across millennia.
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