Asian Highlights at Smithsonian

[Phoenix]

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Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden

Directions--Toba Khedoori (through 2/22/98)
Exhibition features a floor-to-ceiling work on paper created especially
for the museum's Directions Gallery by the Los Angeles-based-artist.
Note: I assumed from the name that this is a person of Asian heritage,
I could be wrong.

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National Museum of American History

Holiday Celebration (12/26-29)
This year's festivities will feature Wong Chinese Lion Dancers, Kwanza
workshops, a holiday magic show, storytelling, and craft and food
demonstrations.

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National Museum of Natural History

Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer): The Living Tradition of
Yup'ik Masks (through 1/4/1998)
Exhibition from the Anchorage Museum of History and Art presents 19th-
and early 20th-century masks created by Yup'ik Eskimos.

Contemporary Korean Ceramics (indifinite)
New permanent exhibition features 33 contemporary works inspired by
centuried-old ceramic traditions.

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Freer Gallery of Art

Japanese Art of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) (through 4/26/1998)
Exhibition explores the museum's holdings of paintings, drawings,
ceramics, lacquer and metalwork from the Meiji era.

Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (runs indefinitely)
Exhibition of Chinese ceramics examines the development of the
gray-green glaze that is known in the West as celadon.

Art For Art's Sake (runs indefinitely)
Display takes a look at the collection of American art assembled by the
gallery's founder, Charles Lang Freer.

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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from the Imperial Collections
(12/14-3/8/1998)
Exhibition honoring the 75th anniversary of the Freer Gallery of Art
features art from the Imperial household Agency and the Emperor of
Japan.

The Jewel and the Rose: Art for Shah-Jahan (through 2/98)
Paintings, textiles and objects illustrate the splendor of Indian
artistic expression during the reign (1627-58) of Shah-Jahan, builder of
the Taj Mahal.

Khmer Ceramics (runs indefinitely)
Rare glazed vessels from the 9th-14th-century Khmer Empire.

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Arts and Industries Building

Stories of the People (through 1/25/98)
Some 200 objects drawn from the collection of the National Museum of
the American Indian represent six American Indian cultures.

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Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian (NYC)

To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions (through 1/4/1998)
Exhibition of quilts demonstrates the cultural and economic
significance of qult making in tribal communities.

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National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC)

Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the
National Museum of the American Indian (through 1/11/98)
Exhibition of weavings created by the NMAI.

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