Category Archives: Asian art

The Lunar New Year celebration arrives

Posted on January 25, 2020 by tcwells14

I’ve always been affectionate towards Asian culture since I grew up surrounded by it. Many of my blog postings are about the Orient/Far East/Asia (depending on what you called it and what generation you are.) (Updating my original posting at … Continue reading →

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Hokusai the master

Posted on December 28, 2019 by tcwells14

In the time between Christmas and New Year’s,  there is usually chaos in Washington D.C.. Gift returns, shopping for yourself, watching streaming television… it’s exhausting. So take some time out for peace and beauty. Go see Hokusai, Mad About Painting. … Continue reading →

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Make time for the Empresses of China

Posted on March 30, 2019 by tcwells14

“The only person the Emperor would bow to is his mother,” says Jan Stuart, the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art. That is real power. Along with co-curator Daisy Yiyou Wang of the … Continue reading →

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Top shopping at the Smithsonian Craft Show

Posted on April 27, 2018 by tcwells14

I have seldom walked through a craft show and had my jaw drop at virtually every booth. The outstanding quality and imagination sets the 2018 Smithsonian Craft show at the National Building Museum apart from so many others. It is … Continue reading →

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D.C.’s gateway to Asia finally re-opens

Posted on October 26, 2017 by tcwells14

It’s been a long two years since the Freer Gallery of Art, the nation’s premier gallery of Asian Art was open on the National Mall in Washington D.C. “What began as a prosaic need to upgrade mechanical systems in the … Continue reading →

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A ‘refreshed’ Freer Gallery of Art coming in October

Posted on June 30, 2017 by tcwells14

Those into Asian and Middle Eastern art know all about the currently-closed Freer Gallery of Art and its partner, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C. During a tour of the Freer’s renovations, Director Julian Raby spoke about many … Continue reading →

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Utamaro-A glimpse into Japan’s sexual ‘floating world’ of yesteryear

Posted on April 8, 2017 by tcwells14

Thank goodness for sex, otherwise humanity would miss so out on so much great art. A one-of-a-kind exhibit, Inventing Utamaro, opens at the Arthur M. Sackler museum in Washington D.C. April 9th. Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro’s large painting, Moon at Shinagawa, owned by … Continue reading →

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#TurquoiseMountain and #CulturedVultures

Posted on March 10, 2016 by tcwells14

Updates, updates… I’m now reviewing and contributing to a UK website known as CulturedVultures. It’s fun to  have a home. Nothing that appears here will appear on CV but I am going to link to the CVs pieces, whether or not … Continue reading →

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