Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Smithsonian Institution

Event Calendar

• Through 9/17

  Worlds Within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran

  The exhibition brings together a selection of 50 folios and paintings from India and Iran created under the Timurid and Mughal emperors from the 15th to the 17th century.

• Through 11/12

  Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan

  The first U.S. exhibition to present a comprehensive overview of the ancient nomadic culture of Kazakhstan, which roamed the Altai and Tianshan regions of eastern Kazakhstan from roughly the sixth through the first century B.C.

• Through 12/12

  Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran

  An extensive collection of metalwork from the first millennium B.C. to the early Islamic period. Open indefinitely.

• Through 12/12

  Reinventing the Wheel: Japanese Ceramics 1930 to 2000

  Recent Japanese pottery that reflects how potters used ancient methods to create modern forms.

• Through 1/13/13

  Family Matters: Portraits From the Qing Court

  Along with a handful of jewelry pieces and one robe, the show features beautiful -- and, in this age of Photoshop, surprisingly faithful -- likenesses of members of the Qing dynasty, the royal family of Manchu origin that ruled China from 1644 to 1912.

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