Joelle Seligson, Author at Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

Freer comparing Whistler’s Venus Rising from the Sea (F1903.174) to an Islamic glazed ceramic pot (F1905.61), 1909. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

April 10, 2018March 25, 2020

This Saturday: Reconsider Freer’s Asian Ceramics

Freer comparing Whistler’s Venus Rising from the Sea (F1903.174) to an Islamic glazed ceramic pot (F1905.61), 1909. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

April 10, 2018March 25, 2020

This Saturday: Reconsider Freer’s Asian Ceramics

Charles Lang Freer

shadow puppet play - wayang

November 8, 2016March 25, 2020

Performing Indonesia: Sumarsam

Performing Indonesia

Detail, Courtesan beneath a Mosquito Net; (with cat)

October 28, 2016March 25, 2020

National Cat Day: Courtesan Beneath a Mosquito Net

October 21, 2016March 25, 2020

Secretary Skorton on “The Art of the Qur’an”

The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

October 20, 2016March 25, 2020

Performing Indonesia: Music from Sulawesi and West Java

Performing Indonesia

blue and white porcelain incense burner

October 14, 2016March 25, 2020

Chinamania in 3D

Possibly Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin) in the guise of a Buddha

October 12, 2016March 25, 2020

National Fossil Day: A Mysterious Mammoth Carving

collection of jade disks (bi 璧)

October 6, 2016July 23, 2021

Jades for Life and Death

Archival image shows the Peacock Room in museum founder Charles Lang Freer’s Detroit home.

October 5, 2016March 25, 2020

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