Blythe McCarthy Appointed Andrew W. Mellon Senior Scientist at the Freer and Sackler Galleries
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Moonlight and Clouds: Silver and Gold in the Arts of Japan
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Perspectives: Anish Kapoor
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Freer and Sackler Galleries Launch First Online Collection Catalogue about Mainland Southeast Asian Ceramics
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2008 Shimada Prize Winner Patricia Berger Presents "Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China" at Freer Meyer Auditorium
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Gorgeous Entertainment Presents New Anime Masterpieces Film "Grave of the Fireflies" at the Freer's Meyer Auditorium
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05.10.07

Sackler and Freer Shops To Feature Merchandise from Portugal, Brazil, Oman

04.17.07

Sackler Galleries to Close in Preparation for "Encompassing the Globe";
Main Entrance and Museum Store Will Remain Open

03.16.07

The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Celebrate the 2007 National Cherry Blossom Festival

03.08.07

"Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries" Opens at the Smithsonian June 24, 2007

1.19.07

"East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art" Opens at the Sackler Gallery Feb. 24, in Conjunction with the Cherry Blossom Festival

10.21.06

The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Presents "In The Beginning: Bibles Before The Year 1000"

09.20.06

J. Keith Wilson Is Named Associate Director and Curator of Ancient Chinese Art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries

09.07.06

Andrew M. Watsky Wins Shimada Prize for Book On History of East Asian Art

08.31.06

"Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott" on Long-term View at the Freer Gallery of Art

07.26.06

"Perspectives: Simryn Gill" Opens Sept. 2 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

12.04.06

"Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries" Opens at the Smithsonian June 23, 2007

10.21.06

The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Presents "In The Beginning: Bibles Before The Year 1000"

09.20.06

J. Keith Wilson Is Named Associate Director and Curator of Ancient Chinese Art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries

09.07.06

Andrew M. Watsky Wins Shimada Prize for Book On History of East Asian Art

08.31.06

"Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott"
On Long-term View at the Freer Gallery of Art

07.26.06

"Perspectives: Simryn Gill" Opens Sept. 2 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

05.15.06

Meet the Authors of African Elites in India: Lecture and Book Signing at the Freer Gallery of Art, Saturday, June 10 at 2 p.m.

04.24.06

"Facing East: Portraits from Asia" Opening July 1 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

02.01.06

"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History" Opens April 1

12.05.05

"Hokusai" on View at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery March 4–May 14, 2006

11.21.05

The Sackler Gallery Honors Contemporary Turkish Designers at the Gala Opening of "Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey"

11.19.05

"Artists of Edo: 1800–1850" Opens Nov. 19

11.04.05

"Freer and Tea: One Hundred Years of the Book of Tea" Opens Nov. 19

09.20.05

Virtue and Entertainment: Chinese Music in the Visual Arts on View at the Freer October 1, 2005–March 26, 2006

09.19.05

"Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey" Opens at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on Oct. 29

08.16.05

"Gold: The Asian Touch" Opens Sept. 10 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

07.20.05

Installation of Clouds by Mei-ling Hom Continues the Sackler Gallery's Perspectives Series

07.14.05

"Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty" at the Freer Gallery

06.22.05

Exhibition of Vietnamese Ceramics from the Red River Delta Commemorates the 10th Anniversary of Normalization of Relations with Vietnam

06.15.05

Sackler Gallery to Receive Major Collection of Central Asian Textiles

06.01.05

June 22 Benefit Dinner to Celebrate the Opening of "Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade"

05.27.05

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan Makes His First Official Visit to a U.S. Museum

04.27.05

"Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade" Opens June 25 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

03.09.05

"Small Masterpieces: Whistler Paintings from the 1880s" Opens April 2 at the Freer Gallery

02.28.05

"In the Realm of Princes: The Arts of the Book in Fifteenth-Century Iran and Central Asia" Opens at the Sackler Gallery

02.02.05

"Boating on a River" at the Freer Gallery

01.13.05

"Games, Contests, and Artful Play in Japan" Showcases Freer Gallery's Japanese Paintings and Ceramics

01.10.05

"Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei" at the Freer Gallery March 19–October 23

12.16.04

The Freer and Sackler Galleries Present a Wealth of Chinese Ceramics

11.15.04

Black & White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th–14th Centuries Opens December 18 at the Freer Gallery of Art

11.05.04

Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade and Innovation

10.26.04

Asian Games: The Art of Contest Opens at the Sackler Gallery

10.6.04

The Sackler Presents Modern Japanese Prints and Paintings from the Robert O. Muller Collection

8.10.04

Cai Guo-Qiang: Traveler

8.10.04

Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas

7.22.04

Art of Mughal India

7.15.04

Monkeys Find Permanent Home at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

7.14.04

The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Celebrates the Final Days and Nights of "Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries"

6.29.04

Asia in America: Views of Chinese Art from the Indianapolis Museum of Art

6.17.04

Whistler's Earliest Prints on View at the Freer Gallery of Art

6.15.04

Life and Leisure: Everyday Life in Japanese Art

6.01.04

The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Celebrate Summer with "Art Night on the Mall"

5.25.04

Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court

4.08.04

Work and Commerce: Scenes of Everyday Life in Chinese Painting

4.06.04

Caliphs and Kings: The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain

3.24.04

Innovative Chinese Buddhist Sculpture Study Wins Shimada Prize from Freer and Sackler Galleries and Metropolitan Study Center of Kyoto, Japan

3.2.04

Massumeh Farhad and Ann Gunter Assume Leadership Roles at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

2.24.04

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Celebrate the 2004 National Cherry Blossom Festival

2.18.04

Faith and Form: Selected Calligraphy and Painting from the Japanese Religious Tradition

2.10.04

Perspectives: Do-Ho Suh

1.8.04

Whistler in Paris: Lithographs from the Belle Epoque, 1891–1896

12.22.03

"Birds and Beasts in Japanese Art" and "The Tea Ceremony as Melting Pot"

12.09.03

Fabulous variety of Asian and Whistler-inspired wares at the Freer gallery of art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery shops

12.09.03

US and China Sign Agreement Facilitating Cultural Exchange

12.09.03

"Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries" An Exclusive North American presentation at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery March 20-August 8, 2004

11.12.03

James T. Ulak named Deputy Director of the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

10.01.03

"Guardians of the Law: Chinese Luohan Painting" at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art Nov. 22 - May 23, 2004

09.21.03

"Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure," opens October 18, 2003, at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

08.20.03

"Perspectives" A Series of Exhibitions by Contemporary Artists, Showcases Re-design of the Pavilion at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

08.20.03

"Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-Garde in Victorian London"
Opens this Fall at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art

08.20.03

"Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-Garde in Victorian London"
The Frames

08.10.03

"Love and Yearning: Mystical and Moral Themes in Persian Poetry and Painting" at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

05.21.03

Sackler Gallery Receives Unrivaled Collection of Japanese Prints from the Estate of Art Dealer and Collector Robert O. Muller

05.14.03

"Art Night on the Mall" Returns this Summer to the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

05.12.03

Whistler's Greatest Etchings: The 1889 Amsterdam Set
at the Freer Gallery of Art

04.24.03

Tales and Legends in Japanese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art

04.10.03

Tea Utensils Under Wraps at the Freer Gallery of Art

03.20.03

"The World at Our Feet: A Selection of Carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art" at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

03.13.03

In Pursuit of Heavenly Harmony: Paintings and Calligraphy by Bada Shanren (1626 - 1705) from the Bequest of Wang Fangyu and Sum Wai

03.07.03

Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics
at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

01.23.03

Celebrate the National Cherry Blossom Festival at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

01.06.03

Auto*Focus: Raghubir Singh's Way into India
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11.08.02

"The Floating World Revealed" and "Tea in the Floating World"

09.25.02

The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India

08.08.02

Palaces and Pavilions: Grand Architecture in Chinese Painting

07.15.02

Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne Van Biema Collection

04.10.02

The Adventures of Hamza

03.19.02

Smithsonian Institution Names Julian Raby Director of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

03.01.02

Silk Road Exhibitions Complement This Year's Folklife Festival Theme "The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust"

03.01.02

Massive Chinese Buddhist Sculpture Installed at the Freer Gallery's South Entrance

02.27.02

Sacred Sites: Silk Road Photographs by Kenro Izu

02.15.02

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Celebrate the National Cherry Blossom Festival

02.08.02

Changing Opinions about Authenticity and Date "Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in a New Light" at the Freer Gallery of Art

02.01.02

Whistler's Nudes

01.25.02

Celebrate the Chinese New Year at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

01.22.02

Freer Gallery of Art Dedicates Concert to Longtime Friend and Benefactor the Late Katharine Graham

09.24.01

Visual Poetry: Paintings and Drawings from Iran

09.24.01

The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics

08.06.01

Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing

04.23.01

Whistler in Venice: The First Set of Etchings

04.09.01

Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits

04.09.01

Whistler Paintings at the Freer

02.14.01

The Freer and Sackler Galleries Celebrate Spring With A National Cherry Blossom Festival Sponsorship and New Exhibition

02.14.01

Folk and Urban Indian Art are Side-by-Side at the Sackler

02.09.01

Dinner for Five: Japanese Serving Dishes for Elegant Meals

01.22.01

Director James Ivory at the Freer Gallery of Art

01.17.01

Landscape and Poetry in 17th - and 18th - Century China

01.11.01

Elizabeth Moynihan Discusses Taj Mahal Gardens at the Freer Gallery of Art

12.27.00

Whistler books, Catalogs and Pamphlets given to the Freer and Sackler Galleries' Library

11.22.00

Changing Taste in 18th - 20th Century Indian Art

11.22.00

The Moonlight Garden Reveals New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal

11.22.00

Fairfax County Students Take a Journey to Ancient China

10.11.00

Archaeologists at Work:
The First Excavations of the Ancient Iranian Capital City of Persepolis

10.11.00

Landmark Saint Gaudens Statues See the Light of Day

10.10.00

Imaging Imperial India

10.10.00

Ceramics Galore: A Comparison of Three Asian Clay Traditions

10.10.00

From Kiln and Kitchen to Gallery: The Story of Asia's Storage Jars

07.13.00

Fountains of Light Displays a Broad Range of Glittering Inlaid Islamic Metalwork from the Nuhad Es-Said Collection