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Current Press Releases
Press Release 02.04.13 New Online Resource Brings Peacock Room into the Digital Realm
Press Release 01.14.13 2,600 Years of World History in One Iconic Object: The Cyrus Cylinder Makes its US Debut
Press Release | Images | Fact Sheet | Catalogue Forward 01.14.13 Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery Debuts World’s First Exhibition on the Visual History of Yoga
Press Release | Images 01.14.13 “One Man’s Search for Ancient China” Leads to Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery On Jan. 19
Press Release | Images 01.14.13 Japanese Illustrated Books Tell of Vibrant Reading Culture in Edo-Period Japan
Press Release | Images | Press Release (日本語) | Bio: Ann Yonemura アン・ヨネムラ (日本語) 01.14.13 Glimpse a “Promise of Paradise” in Freer Gallery’s Chinese Buddhist Sculpture
Press Release | Images 11.26.12 New Technology Resurrects Ancient Chinese Cave at Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery
Press Release 11.26.12 Media preview of new temporary 3-D installation, "Pure Land: Inside the Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang," at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Media Advisory 11.26.12 Sackler Gallery and Art in Embassies Present Artist Cai Guo-Qiang's "Explosion Event" Nov. 30
Press Release 11.26.12 Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang to stage pyrotechnic display in honor of
Sackler's 25th anniversary, Art in Embassies' 50th
Media Advisory 11.25.12 Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Landmark Week of Events
Press Release 11.20.12 Media preview reception for Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's 25th Anniversary Celebration Events
Media Advisory 11.09.12 Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Landmark Week of Events
Press Release 10.10.12 Freer and Sackler Archives Finds New Audiences with Google Cultural Institute
Press Release 09.21.12North American Premiere of “Roads of Arabia” Unearths Hidden History of Ancient Arabian Peninsula
Press Release | Images | Fact Sheet | Related Events | Sponsors 09.05.12"Whistler's Neighborhood: Impressions of a Changing London" Reveals a City in Transition
Press Release 08.13.12Fly Over Mesmerizing Landscapes in “Shadow Sites: Recent Work by Jananne Al-Ani”
Press Release 08.03.12South Asian Art from Subhash Kapoor in Smithsonian Collections Unrelated to Investigation
Press Release 06.18.12Lavish Mughal Paintings Embellish Revised Edition of The Imperial Image
Press Release | Preview 06.11.12“Nomads and Networks” Presents the Artistic Side of Iron Age Nomadic Life
Press Release | Images 04.23.12Perspectives: Ai Weiwei
Press Release | Images 04.04.12 John Max Rosenfield Named 13th Recipient of the Charles Lang Freer Medal
Press Release 03.21.12 Staff Bios (Japanese only/日本語)
Ann Yonemura (アン・ヨネムラ) | James T. Ulak, PhD (ジェームス T. ユーラク、博士) 03.21.12 Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" on View at the Sackler Gallery
Press Release | Images | Edo Fact Sheet 03.01.12 Sackler Gallery Premieres Visionary Works by Japanese Master Painter
Press Release | Images 02.23.12 Japan Spring on the National Mall Events
Press Release | Images 02.17.12 Nowruz! A Persian New Year Celebration
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Sackler at 25
$5 Million Gift Marks 25th Anniversary Year of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran
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Special Celebration: Japan Spring
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Perspectives: Ai Weiwei
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Shadow Sites: Recent Work by Jananne Al-Ani
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Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran
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Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Exhibiting Asia in the 21st Century: Curatorial Lecture Series
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12.14.11 Statement on “Shipwrecked” Advisory Group Meetings, Dec. 8-9
Press Release 12.08.11 Sackler Gallery Convenes Advisory Group to Discuss “Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds” Exhibition
Press Release 10.11.11 Cranes and Clouds: The Korean Art of Ceramic Inlay
Press Release | Images | Related Events 10.04.11 Silk Road Luxuries Glitter at the Freer
Press Release | Images 09.12.11 “Power | Play” Explores China’s Empress Dowager on the World Stage
Press Release | Images | Related Events 08.15.11 Freer Gallery of Art Opens Peacock Room's Shutters
Press Release 07.25.11 Digitization Project Brings Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions into 21st Century
Press Release 07.19.11 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Receives Leading Collection of Tibetan Buddhist Art from Alice S. Kandell
Press Release 06.02.11 Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries Receive Major Gift to Support Persian Art and Culture
Press Release 05.25.11 "Waves at Matsushima" Honors Japan's Beloved Pine Islands
Press Release 05.23.11 Portraits from the Qing Court Reveal a Powerful Imperial Family
Press Release | Images 04.25.11 Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds
Smithsonian Hosts Discussion on Issues Surrounding the Exhibition of the Belitung Cargo
Press Release 03.22.11 "The Peacock Room Comes to America" Captures Freer’s Aesthetic Vision
Press Release | Images 03.16.11 Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds
Media Backgrounder: Discovery, Recovery, Conservation and Exhibition of the Belitung Cargo
Media Backgrounder 03.04.11 Smithsonian’s Sackler Presents Exhibition of Renowned Video Artist Lu Chunsheng
Press Release 03.03.11 2011 National Cherry Blossom Festival
Press Release 02.24.11 Nowruz! A Persian New Year Celebration at the Freer and Sackler Galleries
Press Release 02.07.11 Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds
Website | Images 02.01.11 Freer and Museums Worldwide Team with Google to Create Art Project
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