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In the Realm of the Buddha
Lama, Patron, Artist: The Great Situ Panchen
The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection
March 13–July 18, 2010
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection—This extraordinary Tibetan Buddhist shrine room is on public display for the first time. Acknowledged by practicing Buddhists as a sacred space, this shrine room contains hundreds of superb works of Buddhist art created between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, including bronze sculptures, thangkas (scroll paintings), ritual objects, textile banners, and painted furniture, all presented in a religiously correct manner. The room not only reveals how Tibetan Buddhist art was originally intended to be viewed, but it also offers visitors a profound and spiritual experience.
Lama, Patron, Artist: The Great Situ Panchen—Through new scholarship and recently discovered paintings, the remarkable Situ Panchen (1700-1774) is brought into focus as an artist, teacher, and founder of the Palpung monastery. Thangkas designed and painted by Situ, sculptures of his chosen deity Tara, and Chinese works from the Freer's collection reveal Situ's genius, his enduring influence, and his engagement with Buddhist culture across Asia. Organized by the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, this exhibition is part of the Sackler Gallery's "Asia in America" program that showcases the holdings of important American institutional collections of Asian art.
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Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia
May 15, 2010–January 23, 2011
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
The fascinating story of bronze sculpture and casting in Cambodia is revealed through thirty-six exceptional works. Magnificent examples dating from the prehistoric period to the post-Angkorian period (third century BCE to sixteenth century CE) present the origins, uses, and techniques of bronze casting and the development of a distinctly Cambodian style. This exhibition is the result of an ongoing partnership between the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the National Museum of Cambodia. The museums have worked together to establish a metals conservation laboratory in Cambodia, the first in that nation. Seven of the works on view, discovered in 2006, are among the first bronzes conserved in the lab by the staff of the National Museum. Gods of Angkor travels to the Getty Center of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in early 2011.
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Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall
September 25, 2010–January 16, 2011
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
This exhibition of photographs and videos by Fiona Tan, who was born in Indonesia in 1966 and now lives in Amsterdam, is the first major presentation of her work in the United States. Tan s installations deftly meld the past with the present in profoundly evocative works that explore the power of images in constructing memories and histories. Whether drawing on old photographs, seventeenth-century Dutch painting, or nineteenth-century orientalist architecture, her conceptual and aesthetic approach adds a compelling dimension to understanding Asian art and culture in the world today. This exhibition is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery in British Columbia.
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