Past Events
Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke on a walk down memory lane as Jia revisits his hometown and other locations from his ever-growing body of work.
Robed in magnificent costumes and playing traditional Tibetan instruments, the Drepung Loseling monks will perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healing.
Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 18-21 in Asia Society Texas Center’s Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery. During this ritual, millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place in order to purify and heal the environment and its inhabitants.
The Dunhuang Temples, located in the Gobi Desert of northwest China, were witness to nearly 10 centuries of exquisite art. They also tell the story of Buddhism’s complex integration into Chinese history. The historian D. Neil Schmid will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the powerful monks, skilled artisans, and religious pilgrims who transformed the Buddha into a specifically Chinese icon.
Hear both traditional and modern Chinese music with this accomplished ensemble led by performing artist Li Chi. Playing the erhu (the Chinese two-string bowed fiddle), Chi captivates audiences with her skilled musicianship.
Co-curated by chief curator Anne Rose Kitagawa and History of Art and Architecture graduate students Kun Xie, Sangah Kim, and Allie Mickle, this installation features a selection of Chinese propaganda art drawn from a distinguished private collection.
Author and social commentator Robert Campbell discusses the position occupied in Japanese literature by Ginza, an area in Tokyo that has long stood as an emblem of luxury.
From 1940 to 1950, second-generation Japanese-American artist Uchima Ansei (1921–2000) was an active participant in the Creative Print (sōsaku hanga) movement, a style of 20th-century Japanese art that emphasized western ideals such as individualism and self-reliance over the workshop-oriented approach of traditional Japanese printmaking. This rotation is intended to further the public’s understanding of non-objective abstract art produced in modern Japan.
Join Professor Xiaoxing Xi, a Chinese American scientist falsely accused of espionage, and other community leaders as they examine how Chiense American scientists are being racially profield and scapegoated much as Japanese Americans were during World War II or Muslim Americans have been since September 11, 2001
Allen memorial Art Museum presents an exhibition celebrating seasonal imagery in Japanese prints from the Edo period.