This installation of paintings, screens, and objects in the Arts of Japan galleries will reflect the keen attentiveness to seasonal change evident in Japanese art. After the nation’s capital was established in 794 in Heian-kyō (present-day Kyoto)—a city surrounded on three sides by mountains and pierced by the Kamo River—a sensitivity to the all-encompassing sweep of the seasons formed the foundation of Japanese life and culture. Even now, in the modern capital of Tokyo, celebrations of the beauty of the seasons and the poignancy of their inevitable evanescence are central to the many festivals and rituals that fill the year—from the welcoming of spring at the lunar New Year to picnics under the blossoming cherry trees to offerings made to the harvest moon.
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Works featured in this installation are highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask. Among them are sculptural assemblages made of incongruous combinations of discarded materials by two contemporary artists from the Republic of Benin, Romuald Hazoumé (b. 1962) and Calixte Dakpogan (b. 1958). These ironic tributes to the mask as the African form of expression most renowned in the West are considered within a wider art historical context through their juxtapositions with works in a variety of media by modern and contemporary American artists. The celebrated photograph by Man Ray (1890–1976), Noire et Blanche, recent interpretations in glass by influential sculptor Lynda Benglis (b. 1941), and composite creations by Willie Cole (b. 1955) are among these.
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The islands of the Pacific Ocean encompass nearly 1,800 distinct cultures and hundreds of artistic traditions in an area that covers about one-third of the Earth’s surface. The Museum’s new permanent galleries for Oceanic art, completely redesigned and reinstalled, display a substantially larger portion of the Museum’s Oceanic holdings than was previously on view. Featuring renowned masterworks from the Metropolitan’s Oceanic collection as well as recent acquisitions, the installation presents sculpture and decorative arts from the regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia. The displays also feature the Museum’s first gallery devoted to the arts of the indigenous peoples of Island Southeast Asia.
When: Ongoing
Where: he Metropolitan Museum of ... 
This exhibition focusing on buncheong ware, the bold and dynamic ceramic art that flourished in Korea during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, features approximately sixty works from the renowned collection of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea. Included in the exhibition are select works by modern/contemporary potters, highlighting how this tradition, which had disappeared in Korea for four hundred years, has been revived and transformed by today’s artists. In addition, the exhibition features a handful of Edo-period Japanese ceramics from the Museum’s permanent collection, illustrating Japanese revivals of the buncheong idiom.
The exhibition is made possible by the Korea Foundation.
When: April 7, 2011–August 14, 2011
Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts ... 
These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the second century B.C. and the eighth century A.D. More than one hundred sixty works from the permanent collection are juxtaposed to trace the range of stylistic and iconographic developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during a period that witnessed great ideological ferment and international exchange. The recently published volume The Art of Gandhara in The Metropolitan Museum of Art addresses much of this early production.
When: Ongoing
Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for the Arts of South and Southeast Asia, 2nd floor, NY
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This installation presents approximately forty highlights from the Museum’s extensive permanent collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related areas of Mongolia and China, dating from the eighth to the twentieth century. Included are several recent acquisitions that have never before been exhibited or published.
When: Through fall 2011
Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arms and Armor galleries, 1st floor, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gallery, NY
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In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been completed in 1993 to tell the story of Egyptian art from its earliest known origins (circa 3500 B.C.E.) until the period when the Romans incorporated Egypt into their empire (30 B.C.E.–395 C.E.). Additional exhibits illustrate important themes about Egyptian culture, including women’s roles, permanence and change in Egyptian art, temples and tombs, technology and materials, art and communication, and Egypt and its relationship to the rest of Africa. More than 1,200 objects—comprising sculpture, relief, paintings, pottery, and papyri—are now on view, including such treasures as an exquis ... 
Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers showcases the dynamic field of Japanese fiber art. Organized as a juried show jointly presented by Japan Society and International Textile Network Japan in collaboration with Tama University Art Museum, the works on display range from ethereal silk and hemp to paper pulp and synthetic fiber using methods that are sometimes deeply traditional, but sometimes employ the latest weaving and dyeing technology along with an environmentally conscious “green” ethos. Moving far beyond traditional utility, Japan’s textile pioneers fuse past and present to create innovative, beautiful and sometimes challenging works of art.
View an image gallery of works from Fiber Futures
When: Friday, September 16 — Sunday, December 18
Where: 333 East 4 ... 
The 2011 Kids Euro Festival again will present the exceptional diversity of European cultures, showcasing the vitality of EU arts through children’s entertainment. The 2010 Festival was an overwhelming success, as were its predecessors. The festival is geared toward Washington, DC, metropolitan-area children aged 4 to 12 years old and their families. Activities include weekday, in-school performances; weekend shows and workshops at theaters and cultural institutions; activities for hospitalized children; teacher workshops and seminars; workshops for local children’s artists.
Free performances, workshops and screenings for children:
storytelling, puppetry, dance, magic, cinema…
presented by the 27 European Union Member States
Date: October 14-November 10, 2011
Location: W ... 
In celebration of Women’s History Month, renowned artist Andrea Arroyo presents the exhibit “Femenina,” featuring works that celebrate women’s strength and courage and honor the female body.
While commemorating the lives and stories of extraordinary historical figures (e.g. Malinche-Mexico, Cleopatra-Egypt,) Arroyo also celebrates the role of women in contemporary society, and seeks to bring attention to issues of gender discrimination and gender justice.
Ms. Arroyo is an award-winning, New York-based artist whose work is exhibited widely. Honors and Awards include: Award Artist, selected by President Bill Clinton, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Award, Groundbreaking Latina in the Arts, Official Artist of the Latin Grammys, New York City Council Citation Award for Achievement in Art ... 
