Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

Tour exhibitions such as "The Art of Knowing" and meet our curators in person. Which ones will you join? https://s.si.edu/3Q7SItQ

Educators, gain tools for teaching Japanese culture through play, arts, and language in this workshop led by expert educators on November 2! Register for free here: https://s.si.edu/3zOW93G

{UPDATE: These workshops are sold out! Join the waitlist.} Meet artist Karen Ahn October 24 to learn about traditional Korean decorative knot craft (maedeup) and make your own knot jewelry! https://s.si.edu/3BthvUG Image courtesy of the National Intangible Heritage Center

If you're in town for the long weekend, we're open every day including Monday, October 14! Admission is always free. Join tours or plan your visit here: https://s.si.edu/3po51I6

This fall, experience new and classic takes on the film noir genre by directors from China and Hong Kong, with dazzling cinematography and heart-stopping plot twists! In "Only the River Flows," an award-winning noir thriller, a gruesome murder in a small town in 1990s China sends a detective into an obsessive spiral. Get free passes and showtimes here: https://s.si.edu/3XA5eFz Trailer courtesy of Kimstim

Join our conservators in person October 18 to learn what Chinese hanging scrolls are made from, and interact with the tools and materials we use to mount Chinese paintings! https://s.si.edu/4gt4CKy #CuriosityWelcomed #SmithsonianAsianArt

Meet our curators this month for free tours of our newest exhibitions! Register here and tell us which one you'll be joining: https://s.si.edu/3Q7SItQ Image: Detail, Belated Bosal, Park Chan-kyong, 2019, HD film, black and white, 5.1 channel sound, 55 min / Copyright Park Chan-kyong, Courtesy of the artist and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, ELS2023.8.1

What do you see in this painting and in our gardens? We invited Smithsonian Gardens Landscape Architect Lauren Brandes to collaborate on the special exhibition “Shifting Boundaries.” Lauren reminds us to notice the nature around you every day. Join us online October 24 to discuss the exhibition and this unique collaboration more: https://s.si.edu/3TUK4B3 Images: The Hidden Pool, John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902), ca. 1899, United States, Oil on canvas, 56 x 68.8 cm (22 1/16 x 27 1/16 in), National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1913.32a–c Mary Livingston Ripley Garden

ICYMI, some highlights from #Chuseok, when we welcomed 7K visitors to the museum. Thanks to your support, we made important Korean cultural traditions--performances, workshops, demos, and more--free and accessible to all! Learn how you can support here: https://lnkd.in/gBSQHh6z

Get an exclusive curator's tour of "An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama" and delve into the pages of a massive, boldly illustrated manuscript as you journey through Iran's history: https://s.si.edu/4ddWUlB Image: Taynush before Iskandar and the visit to the Brahmans, folio from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020), National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Purchase —Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, S1986.105.1