You are here
Past Events: exhibition
The Memorial Foundation for Children Teaching Gallery, located in the MWV Art Education Center, has been transformed into an interactive exhibition where visitors can explore daily life in imperial China. In contrast to the world of the emperor on display in Forbidden City, this hands-on exhibition provides a glimpse into the home of a merchant-class family who lived in the 18th century.
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is currently hosting Exquisite Nature, an exhibition presenting masterpieces from some of China's most influential painters of the 14th-18th centuries.
Exquisite Nature presents masterpieces from some of China’s most influential painters of the 14th–18th centuries. These rarely seen paintings include variations on popular subjects such as landscape, birds-and-flowers, country life and historical stories. Though differing in style and geographical representation, each artwork offers a unique take on a shared theme: humankind’s celebration of the natural world.
The Norton Museum of Art presents an exhibition of objects which illustrate important events in tea culture.
This exhibition features the most recent works of art donated to the Crow Collection of Asian Art at the bequest of Margaret Doggett Crow (1919-2014). Highlights of this final gift to the Museum include fine examples of Asian export porcelain, jade vessels with delicately carved auspicious imagery, and Japanese ivorynetsuke. As a collection, these works tell stories from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century, including the interweaving of Daoist, Shinto, Buddhist, and folk traditions with the worlds of Qing dynasty Confucian scholars, Edo period merchants, and the collector’s eye for quality and beauty.
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford presents photojournalist David Butow. In this collection, Butow decided to explore the parallels of his craft with some of the Buddhist concepts he'd been studying such as empathy, compassion and awareness of the present moment.
The Rubin Museum of Art is currently hosting the exhibition, "Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection".
The Boise Art Museum presents a collection of photographs from Chinese artist Liu Bolin's Hiding in the City series.
The UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum is hosting an exhibition called How to Make the Universe Right. It features scrolls and ceremonial objects from ancient Vietnamese and Chinese groups and will be on view until May 1, 2015.