Across cultures and centuries, death has inspired some of humanity’s most imaginative artistic expressions. Featuring around 30 works of art from the Harn’s Asian art collection, this exhibition invites visitors to explore how China, Korea and Japan have envisioned the afterlife. Organized into three thematic sections, the exhibition traces a...
Ceramics from China, Japan, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia punctuate the transitional nexus space between the new David A. Cofrin Asian Art Wing and original Harn Museum galleries. The ceramics from across Asia remind us that the Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road were avenues of new cultural...
In the 20th century, Japanese printmakers moved away from the collaborative tradition of woodblock printmaking to embrace sōsaku hanga 創作版画, or “creative prints,” in which artists became the sole creators of their works. The popular subjects of ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints, such as beauties, actors, seasonal landscapes and scenes of bustling...
Color is one of the timeless and foundational elements of art, transcending boundaries of time, place and culture. The diverse collection of Asian art at the Harn Museum of Art boasts an extensive range of colors, each carrying rich cultural, religious, social and political significance. The dynamic palette of colors...
Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection highlights the diversity, creativity, and technical virtuosity of 20th- and 21st-century ceramic artists working in Japan. The exhibition features both artists whose work is inspired by traditional themes and those who work in (or are influenced by aspects of) the avant-garde....
The Cofrin Asian Art Wing contains four main gallery spaces. These are made up of three exhibitions and three installations in the central gallery, as well as a showcase of contemporary Japanese ceramics. Combined, this area features more than 700 works from the Harn Museum’s collections in Chinese, Indian, Japanese,...
In 2012, the Harn Museum of Art opened its only gallery dedicated to the arts of a single nation. The renovation of the south gallery in the David A. Cofrin Asian Art Wing is supported by a generous grant from the National Museum of Korea and was re-opened in Summer...
The first exhibition at the Harn Museum of Art since 2007 to showcase both the breadth and depth of the museum’s Chinese art collection, She/Her/Hers: Women in the Arts of China explores the intersecting roles women have played as pictorial subjects, artists, and consumers of art in premodern, modern, and contemporary China....
