Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Art Cart: Unearthing Chinese Art
Kids and Family
Stop by this interactive cart to explore examples of natural and carved jade and the tools used to shape them. Learn how bronzes were made by assembling the parts of a bronze mold. Touch pieces of jade and bronze. Discover designs in the works of art in the Ancient China galleries.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Outside galleries 18 and 19. Cost: Free. Related Events: Sounds of the Dragon.
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
In Every Language Love
Kids and Family
An Open House for All Ages
In the classroom, enjoy a digital slideshow of images of love in Asian art. Use stamps that say “love” in more than a dozen Asian languages to print Valentines to take home.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler sublevel 2. Cost: Free.
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Persian Classical Music: Hossein Alizadeh, tar and setar; Pejman Hadadi, percussion
Performances
One of Iran’s greatest musical legends, Hossein Alizadeh returns to the Freer after a ten-year hiatus to give a rare, intimate solo performance. Alizadeh has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, once for his solo album Endless Vision and again as a member of the Masters of Persian Music ensemble, with which he has toured internationally. A gifted composer, Alizadeh wrote the music for such award-winning Iranian films as Gabbeh, Turtles Can Fly, and A Time for Drunken Horses.
Made possible by a generous grant from Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert tour: Art of Ancient Iran, 6:45 pm.
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 7:30 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 5, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 5, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Good Bye
Films
Cloaked in a deadly silence, Good Bye is a tale of women without men in a country that’s been trained to treat females like ghosts. Noora, a young, disbarred lawyer whose husband has been exiled, conveys a quiet desperation as she navigates the restrictive, male-dominated Tehran. Unable to find work due to her professional involvement with a human rights group, she spends her days making the rounds of government agencies. Noora’s caged-in existence echoes director Mohammad Rasoulof’s own experiences: After being arrested in 2010, he is now is permitted to come and go from his home but not from his country. Description adapted from the Toronto International Film Festival. (Dir.: Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2011, 104 min. Persian with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 5, 2012, 2:00 PM.
In Every Language Love
Kids and Family
An Open House for All Ages
In the classroom, enjoy a digital slideshow of images of love in Asian art. Use stamps that say “love” in more than a dozen Asian languages to print Valentines to take home.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler sublevel 2. Cost: Free.
Sunday, February 5, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 6, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 6, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 6, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 6, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Mourning
Films
Winner of the top prize at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival, Morteza Farshbaf’s debut feature is unique in a number of ways—not the least of which is that the two main characters are deaf and communicate almost entirely in sign language. As the characters bicker during a road trip, the audience learns tantalizing pieces of information about their passenger, a young relative whose parents disappeared in the middle of the night. A protégé of Abbas Kiarostami, Farshbaf “fashions a consistently surprising and blackly comic road trip that may herald the arrival of a major new Iranian talent” (Institute of Contemporary Art, London). (Dir.: Morteza Farshbaf, Iran, 2011, 84 min. Persian and sign language with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 7:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Sculpting the Seasons
Workshops
Try your hand at Japanese flower-arranging and learn about the art on view in the Freer’s Seasons exhibitions. No experience necessary. Refreshments provided by Asia Nine.
Note: The workshop is full. To be put on a waiting list, please email asiaworkshops@si.edu with “February 11 Inner-Artist Workshop Waiting List Request” in the subject line. No-show seats are filled with those on the waiting list when the workshop begins at 1 pm. You may pay on-site with cash or check at that time .
Categories: Workshops. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Freer Conference Room. Cost: $15. Related Exhibition: Seasons.
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 1:00 PM.
In Every Language Love
Kids and Family
An Open House for All Ages
In the classroom, enjoy a digital slideshow of images of love in Asian art. Use stamps that say “love” in more than a dozen Asian languages to print Valentines to take home.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler sublevel 2. Cost: Free.
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Timely Images: Chinese Art Related to Seasonal Festivals
Talks and Lectures
Seasonal festivals in China were important occasions for the creation, display, and presentation of gifts of art featuring specific, timely images. For example, paintings depicting a bouquet of pomegranate flowers, calamus leaves, and a branch of moxa were appropriate only for the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival. Representations of roosters, considered lucky, were associated with the Chinese New Year, while images of a peony and butterfly signaled the Birthday of the Flowers. This lecture by Jan Stuart, keeper of Asia at the British Museum, examines the close bond between a wide range of pictorial arts and their temporal conventions. She explores the role of art in marking the passage of the yearly cycle and how it was folded into China’s abiding rhythms of nature and human culture.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Mourning
Films
Winner of the top prize at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival, Morteza Farshbaf’s debut feature is unique in a number of ways—not the least of which is that the two main characters are deaf and communicate almost entirely in sign language. As the characters bicker during a road trip, the audience learns tantalizing pieces of information about their passenger, a young relative whose parents disappeared in the middle of the night. A protégé of Abbas Kiarostami, Farshbaf “fashions a consistently surprising and blackly comic road trip that may herald the arrival of a major new Iranian talent” (Institute of Contemporary Art, London). (Dir.: Morteza Farshbaf, Iran, 2011, 84 min. Persian and sign language with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 2:00 PM.
In Every Language Love
Kids and Family
An Open House for All Ages
In the classroom, enjoy a digital slideshow of images of love in Asian art. Use stamps that say “love” in more than a dozen Asian languages to print Valentines to take home.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler sublevel 2. Cost: Free.
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 13, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 13, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 13, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Noodles and a Movie at the Freer!
Films
To introduce Taiwan's food culture and celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office collaborates with the Freer and Sackler in welcoming foodies and cinema lovers to savor a free film and feast.
One of Taiwan's top culinary artists, chef Hou Chun-sheng, winner of the 2011 Taipei Beef Noodle Soup Competition, serves his special beef noodles during a reception at the Freer, followed by a screening of Eat Drink Man Woman. Chef Hou's beef noodles are a must-eat for international gourmets and the perfect dish to prepare viewers for Eat Drink Man Woman—Taiwan-born director Ang Lee's food-centered film about an elderly chef and his family as they experience the trials and joys of life in modern Taiwan. Settle in and enjoy an evening of homestyle Taiwan food culture! Free and open to the public.
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Peacock Room Shutters Open
The Peacock Room is open during museum hours, but once a month it is shown in a whole new light. When the shutters of Whistler’s “harmony in blue and gold” are open, a flood of natural light turns the Peacock Room into a glowing jewel of blue, green, and gold tones. Details, colors, and textures are revealed in the sunlight—and a special filtering film on the windows minimizes fading.
The shutters are open from noon to 5:30 pm every third Thursday of the month into spring 2013. On those days, docents are in the Peacock Room to answer questions (12–2 pm), and starting at 2, they lead a tour of Whistler’s works on view in the Freer Gallery.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Continues: Every third Thursday. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America.
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Spotlight: Peacock Room
Tours
As an alternative to a tour, drop in during this hour-long block to have an informal conversation with a docent about the exhibition.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America.
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Whistler and the Peacock Room
Tours
Hear the story of James McNeill Whistler's controversial decoration of the Peacock Room, originally in the London home of shipping magnate Frederick R. Leyland. Explore other works by Whistler in the Freer's American art galleries, and find out how he influenced Charles Lang Freer's aesthetic sensibility.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America.
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 17, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 17, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 17, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 17, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Here without Me
Films
Bahram Tavakoli’s adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie is a brilliantly acted restaging of the original’s themes within the cultural confines of contemporary Iran. As in Williams’ play, the story is told from the point of view of a cinema-haunting young man. His shy, disabled sister takes refuge in her collection of glass animals while their overbearing mother, played with motor-mouthed aplomb by Montreal Film Festival award-winner Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, works desperately to match her with a marriageable man—which she thinks she may have found in her son’s best friend. (Dir.: Bahram Tavakoli, Iran, 2011, 97 min. Persian with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 17, 2012, 7:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Art Cart: Unearthing Chinese Art
Kids and Family
Stop by this interactive cart to explore examples of natural and carved jade and the tools used to shape them. Learn how bronzes were made by assembling the parts of a bronze mold. Touch pieces of jade and bronze. Discover designs in the works of art in the Ancient China galleries.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Outside galleries 18 and 19. Cost: Free. Related Events: Sounds of the Dragon.
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Here without Me
Films
Bahram Tavakoli’s adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie is a brilliantly acted restaging of the original’s themes within the cultural confines of contemporary Iran. As in Williams’ play, the story is told from the point of view of a cinema-haunting young man. His shy, disabled sister takes refuge in her collection of glass animals while their overbearing mother, played with motor-mouthed aplomb by Montreal Film Festival award-winner Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, works desperately to match her with a marriageable man—which she thinks she may have found in her son’s best friend. (Dir.: Bahram Tavakoli, Iran, 2011, 97 min. Persian with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Music From Japan: Echoes of the Silk Road
Performances
Hear ancient musical instruments brought to Japan along the Silk Road—with a focus on the long-extinct Persian harp (kugo). Fuyuhiko Sasaki performs both new and recreated works for the harp, joined by a six-piece ensemble of winds, voice, and percussion in music by Sasaki, Akiko Yamane, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Maki Ishii, Takehito Shimazu, and Sukeyasu Shiba. Made possible through support from the Thaw Charitable Trust; part of Music From Japan Festival 2012.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert tour, Korean Ceramics, 6:45 pm.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 7:30 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 24, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, February 24, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Art Cart: Unearthing Chinese Art
Kids and Family
Stop by this interactive cart to explore examples of natural and carved jade and the tools used to shape them. Learn how bronzes were made by assembling the parts of a bronze mold. Touch pieces of jade and bronze. Discover designs in the works of art in the Ancient China galleries.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Outside galleries 18 and 19. Cost: Free. Related Events: Sounds of the Dragon.
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 27, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, February 27, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 2, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 2, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Debussy at 150: Calefax Reed Quintet
Performances
The flamboyant Dutch ensemble performs its vibrant arrangements of music inspired by painters, including the Estampes and Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy, who was strongly influenced by Whistler and Japanese prints; Enrique Granados’ Goyesca; Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano; and Hans Abrahamsen’s Walden. Praised by the New York Times for their “unadulterated virtuosity,” the Calefax musicians moved the London Times to describe them as “extremely gifted Dutch gents who almost made the wind quintet seem the best musical format on the planet.”.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert gallery tour, Freer and Whistler, 6:45 pm.
Friday, March 2, 2012, 7:30 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Nowruz! A Persian New Year Celebration
Dance, play, and feast your way into the Persian New Year at the Freer and Sackler Galleries. The museums’ fourth annual Nowruz celebration features free attractions for all ages—including Haft Sin table displays, “fire” jumping, paper-flower arranging, chess and backgammon games, a text-messaging scavenger hunt, animated films, Persian stories by Xanthe Gresham, performances by vocalist Monika Jalili (free tickets required) and the Nomad Dancers, and contemporary Persian dance beats—along with traditional Persian food for sale. Made possible by a generous grant from Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar.
Categories: Kids & Families. Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Freer and Sackler Galleries. Cost: Free.
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Monika Jalili
Performances
Vocalist Monika Jalili brings to life cherished Iranian songs from the 1940s to the 1970s, along with beloved folk songs in Persian, Azeri, and other Iranian languages. She is joined by her outstanding ensemble on violin, guitar, oud, and percussion. Jallili earned her degree in voice from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music and has performed her Iranian repertoire at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, (Les) Poisson Rouge, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, as well as in London, Paris, Montreal, Budapest, and Helsinki. Made possible by a generous grant from Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required.
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Monika Jalili
Performances
Vocalist Monika Jalili brings to life cherished Iranian songs from the 1940s to the 1970s, along with beloved folk songs in Persian, Azeri, and other Iranian languages. She is joined by her outstanding ensemble on violin, guitar, oud, and percussion. Jallili earned her degree in voice from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music and has performed her Iranian repertoire at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, (Les) Poisson Rouge, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, as well as in London, Paris, Montreal, Budapest, and Helsinki. Made possible by a generous grant from Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required.
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 5:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 5, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 5, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 9, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 9, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Foxy Festival
Films
When the police announce an effort to rid their precinct of sleaze, they run into a problem: It seems every citizen has a skeleton in the closet—or, more accurately, a blowup doll or set of handcuffs. Lee Jae-young’s bawdy comedy is a lighthearted romp that reveals the naughty underbelly of a well-mannered Seoul neighborhood. The film’s frank yet good-humored take on everything from sex toys to bondage caused a sensation in Korea, and its immensely talented cast of comedic performers delivers an uplifting message of self-acceptance with wit and verve. Intended for mature audiences. (Dir.: Lee Hae-young, 2010, 110 min. Korean with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 12, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 12, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Moving Perspectives: Minouk Lim
Films
The series begins with Minouk Lim, whose work is also on view in Perspectives: Minouk Lim (through March 18, Sackler Pavilion). Two of her recent works, SOS Adoptive Dissensus (2009) and Firecliff 2_Seoul (2011), explore the enduring power of physical spaces and modern history in the collective memory of contemporary Korea.
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 15, 2012 – Saturday, March 17, 2012.
Peacock Room Shutters Open
The Peacock Room is open during museum hours, but once a month it is shown in a whole new light. When the shutters of Whistler’s “harmony in blue and gold” are open, a flood of natural light turns the Peacock Room into a glowing jewel of blue, green, and gold tones. Details, colors, and textures are revealed in the sunlight—and a special filtering film on the windows minimizes fading.
The shutters are open from noon to 5:30 pm every third Thursday of the month into spring 2013. On those days, docents are in the Peacock Room to answer questions (12–2 pm), and starting at 2, they lead a tour of Whistler’s works on view in the Freer Gallery.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Continues: Every third Thursday. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America.
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Spotlight: Peacock Room
Tours
As an alternative to a tour, drop in during this hour-long block to have an informal conversation with a docent about the exhibition.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America.
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Whistler and the Peacock Room
Tours
Hear the story of James McNeill Whistler's controversial decoration of the Peacock Room, originally in the London home of shipping magnate Frederick R. Leyland. Explore other works by Whistler in the Freer's American art galleries, and find out how he influenced Charles Lang Freer's aesthetic sensibility.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America.
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 16, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 16, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Anyang, Paradise City
Films
Photographer and video artist Park Chan-kyong’s first feature-length film blends documentary and fictional elements to create a portrait of Anyang, South Korea. It is a journey through the layers of history that have shaped the city and its environment, from a tragic fire that killed 22 female workers during the 1988 Olympics to the painstaking excavation of a thousand-year-old temple, and from the search for a legendary 500-year-old “grandmother tree” to an investigation into the ways Buddhism is interwoven into the region’s history. Presented in conjunction with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. (Dir.: Park Chan-kyong, 2011, 102 min. Korean with English subtitles, video).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 16, 2012, 7:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Kayhan Kalhor, kamanche; Behrouz Jamali, tombak
Performances
One of the great masters of Persian music—and a three-time Grammy nominee—Kayhan Kalhor returns to the Freer for a rare intimate performance on the traditional Iranian kamanche (spike fiddle). Kalhor is a longtime performer and composer with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and is cofounder of the Masters of Persian Music, Dastan, and Ghazal (with Shujaat Khan and Swapan Chaudhuri). His many other collaborations have ranged from work with Brooklyn Rider and the New York Philharmonic to the soundtrack for Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth. He is accompanied by Behrouz Jamali on tombak (drum).
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert gallery tour, Arts of the Islamic World, 6:45 pm.
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 7:30 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 18, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 18, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Cyrano Agency
Films
Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right but lack the charm to make your beloved notice you? Hire the Cyrano Agency! In Kim Hyun-seok’s crowd-pleasing comedy, a troupe of poor actors takes inspiration from Cyrano de Bergerac and starts a business to help the lovelorn via meticulous surveillance, extreme makeovers, and elaborately stage-managed “chance meetings” with the objects of their desire. Mixing plenty of whimsy with a bit of suspense and a dash of melodrama, this is Korean romantic comedy at its finest. (Dir.: Kim Hyun-seok, 2010, 117 min. Korean with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 18, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 18, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 19, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 19, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 19, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 23, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 23, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 23, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas
Kids and Family
Use an activity guide to explore the exhibition 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In the classroom, create a layered miniature diorama (tatebanko) using images of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints to explore his use of perspective.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PM.
The Art of Kabuki: Bando Kotoji
Performances
Traditional dance master Bando Kotoji demonstrates and discusses scenes from famous kabuki plays in the style developed by Bando Mitsugoro III (1775–1832). He elucidates the intricacies of kabuki costumes, makeup, postures, and movement, which are supported by exquisite live music for shamisen, chanter, and percussion. The scenes include “Yoshino-yama,” set on a famous Japanese mountain known for its cherry blossoms. As part of the program, select members of the audience receive onstage instruction for basic kabuki dance footwork and fan gestures, typical male and female gestures, and a simple dance piece from the traditional repertory.
The US tour of Bando Kotoji and the kabuki musicians is organized by the Japan Society, with funding from the Japan Foundation.
Categories: Demonstrations. Lectures & Discussions. Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium.
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 25, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 25, 2012, 1:00 PM.
My Dear Desperado
Films
She’s a recent college graduate from the country; he’s a grouchy gangster who’s not very good at his job. As she struggles to find work and he considers getting out of the crime game, these neighbors in a crummy Seoul apartment building become an adorably odd couple. This sophisticated and very modern romantic comedy from first-time director Kim Kwang-sik is a sterling example of a genre that has become a Korean specialty. The chemistry sizzles between charismatic stars Park Joong-hoon (Radio Star; Nowhere to Hide) and Jeong Yu-mi (Like You Know it All; A Bittersweet Life), and the film’s dry humor and focus on the economically downtrodden lend a fresh twist to a familiar theme. (Dir.: Kim Kwang-sik, Korea, 2010, 105 min. video, Korean with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas
Kids and Family
Use an activity guide to explore the exhibition 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In the classroom, create a layered miniature diorama (tatebanko) using images of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints to explore his use of perspective.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 26, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 26, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Monday, March 26, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Musicians from Marlboro II
Performances
Young virtuosos from the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival perform Haydn’s String Quartet, op. 54, no. 1; Beethoven’s String Quintet, op. 29; and Brahms’ Clarinet Trio, op. 114. The ensemble features violinists David Bowlin and Robin Scott, violists Kyle Armbrust and Emily Deans, cellist Peter Stumpf, clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois, and pianist Gabriele Carcano. The Washington Post called concerts by the Musicians from Marlboro “a virtual guarantee of musical excellence.”.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert gallery tour, Arts of Japan, 6:45 pm.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:30 PM.
Moving Perspectives: Hyunjhin Baik
Films
Baik’s The End (2009) assembles well-known characters in Korean cinema into experimental, fragmented scenes that play with formal cinematic devices and narrative progression. While the various possible plots remain enigmatic, the resulting work is a visual and psychological portrait of four individuals and the ultimate inscrutability of life.
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 – Saturday, March 31, 2012.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Tours
Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 30, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society
Tours
Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 30, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 30, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society
Tours
Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, March 30, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Sackler Highlights
Tours
Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society
Tours
Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 12:00 PM.
Tour: Freer Highlights
Tours
Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas
Kids and Family
Use an activity guide to explore the exhibition 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In the classroom, create a layered miniature diorama (tatebanko) using images of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints to explore his use of perspective.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society
Tours
Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Invasion of Alien Bikini
Films
In this ingenious, micro-budget sci-fi movie, Young-gun, a self-appointed urban hero with a fake moustache, rescues a damsel in distress. She turns out to be a space alien on a mission to be impregnated by an earthling, by any means necessary. Unfortunately for her, Young-gun has taken a vow of chastity and would rather play Jenga than bed a comely ET. Produced for less than $5,000, this gem is yet another example of the creativity of Korea’s independent filmmakers. It delivers action, comedy, martial arts, a splash of gore, and surprising shifts in tone that take the film beyond the exploitative nature that its title implies. Intended for mature audiences. (Dir.: Oh Young-doo, 2011, 75 min. Korean with English subtitles, video).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas
Kids and Family
Use an activity guide to explore the exhibition 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In the classroom, create a layered miniature diorama (tatebanko) using images of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints to explore his use of perspective.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Red Vacance, Black Wedding
Films
Veteran directors Kim Tai-sik (Driving with My Wife’s Lover) and Park Cheol-su (301, 302) joined forces for this tag-team project, with each contributing a short narrative about infidelity. In Kim’s ribald slapstick comedy XX Vacance, a married man’s vacation with his mistress goes wildly awry when his wife turns up to exact punishment for his cheating. In Park’s XX Wedding, a divorced professor is surprised when a former student and lover shows up at a restaurant they used to frequent instead of going on her honeymoon, leading them down the memory lane of their passionate affair. Jo Seon-muk’s performances as the leading man in both films are remarkable for their striking differences. Other films are as bold in their depiction of sexuality, but few are as honest and mature as these in their depiction of raw desire and its implications. Intended for mature audiences. (Dirs.: Kim Tai-sik and Park Cheol-su, 2011, 90 min. Korean with English subtitles, video).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 3:00 PM.
End of Animal
Films
Soon-young, a pregnant teenager on a taxi ride to the country, is joined by a mysterious passenger who begins a countdown to the moment when “the angels will descend.” After a blinding flash of light, Soon-young wakes up alone in the cab with a dead cell phone and a note telling her to stay put. Instead she ventures out into the barren landscape. Is this the apocalypse, is someone playing a trick on her, or is she going mad? “Cinematic clues that you’re in one genre will steer you wrong time and again, as this gripping and deeply unsettling debut by newcomer Jo Sung-hee unwinds its small, personal tale of apocalypse with menace and dark humor” (Frako Loden, San Francisco International Film Festival). (Jo Sung-hee, 2010, 110 min. Korean with English subtitles, video).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 8, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Anime Artists Encounter Arhats
Kids and Family
Use a manga-style activity book to explore the exhibition Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples. Then return to the classroom for instruction in anime and manga drawing from an anime artist.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Ponyo
Films
“There is a word to describe Ponyo,” writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, “and that word is magical. This poetic, visually breathtaking work by the greatest of all animators has such deep charm that adults and children will both be touched.” A young boy meets Ponyo, a strange sea creature—part fish, part human—who has escaped from the underwater lair of an evil scientist. Ponyo’s love for her protector inspires her to use magic powers to become human, while larger magic forces threaten to upset the balance of nature. Features the voices of Matt Damon, Tina Fey, and Liam Neeson. (Dir.: Hayao Miyazaki, 2008, 101 min. English).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 11:00 AM.
Anime Artists Encounter Arhats
Kids and Family
Use a manga-style activity book to explore the exhibition Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples. Then return to the classroom for instruction in anime and manga drawing from an anime artist.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Porco Rosso
Films
The title character of this “enthralling, endearing and mesmerising piece of animation cinema” (Tom Mes, Midnight Eye) is a swashbuckling, tough-guy aviator who just happens to be a pig. Taking off from his island hideaway, he pilots his bright red plane to do battle with pirates and other evildoers. In this eccentric adventure set in 1920s Italy, Miyazaki gives free reign to his well-known obsession with airplanes by creating numerous amazing scenes of aerial derring-do. (Dir.: Hayao Miyazaki, 1992, 94 min. English).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 1:30 PM.
Anime Artists Encounter Arhats
Kids and Family
Use a manga-style activity book to explore the exhibition Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples. Then return to the classroom for instruction in anime and manga drawing from an anime artist.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 3:00 PM.
Princess Mononoke
Films
This epic fable on ecology and spirituality set a new benchmark in philosophical and artistic sophistication for anime and catapulted Miyazaki to international renown. Humans, gods, and demons battle over the fate of an unspoiled forest, patrolled by a pack of wolves that in turn is ruled by a human “princess” who will stop at nothing to protect their habitat. “A landmark feat of Japanese animation from the acknowledged master of the genre” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). (Dir.: Hayao Miyazaki, 1997, 134 min. Japanese with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 4:00 PM.
Spirited Away
Films
Teeming in mythical beasts and complex characters alike, Miyazaki’s masterpiece won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and it remains the highest-grossing film in Japan’s history. It tells the engrossing tale of a young girl who stumbles into a mysterious spirit world populated by a host of creatures from the depths of Japanese mythology. “An out-and-out charmer. It's almost impossible to do justice in words either to the visual richness of the movie … or to the character-filled storyline” (Derek Elley, Variety). (Dir.: Hayao Miyazaki, 2001, 125 min. Japanese with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 7:00 PM.
Moving Perspectives: Jeon Joonho
Films
Jeon Joonho uses digital animation to question and subvert the visual icons of contemporary culture. Often starting with symbolically charged imagery, Jeon manipulates minute details that progressively alter our views of the surface imagery and subsequently challenge our assumptions about society today.
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 – Saturday, April 21, 2012.
Peacock Room Shutters Open
The Peacock Room is open during museum hours, but once a month it is shown in a whole new light. When the shutters of Whistler’s “harmony in blue and gold” are open, a flood of natural light turns the Peacock Room into a glowing jewel of blue, green, and gold tones. Details, colors, and textures are revealed in the sunlight—and a special filtering film on the windows minimizes fading.
The shutters are open from noon to 5:30 pm every third Thursday of the month into spring 2013. On those days, docents are in the Peacock Room to answer questions (12–2 pm), and starting at 2, they lead a tour of Whistler’s works on view in the Freer Gallery.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Continues: Every third Thursday. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America.
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
The Chaser
Films
In Person: Na Hong-jin
“The Chaser is an expert serial-killer film,” raves Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, “and a poster child for what a well-made thriller looked like in the classic days. … This is drama, and it is interesting.” When one of cop-turned-pimp Jung-ho’s girls goes missing, he thinks it’s a rival moving in on his territory, but the truth turns out to be much more sinister. Full of suspense, inventive action scenes, rich characters, and charismatic performances, The Chaser is a thrill ride directed “with muscle and verve” (Variety). Intended for mature audiences. (Dir.: Na Hong-jin, 2008, 125 min. Korean with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, April 20, 2012, 7:00 PM.
Before Dawn
Kids and Family
Create your own printing block using Styrofoam. Then use two traditional Japanese blue pigments and Prussian blue, which was introduced in the Edo period (1615–1868), to print landscapes that convey the soft light of early dawn, just as Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai did in his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 2:00 PM.
The Yellow Sea
Films
In Person: Na Hong-jin
Na Hong-jin followed up the success of The Chaser with another suspenseful yarn full of plot twists, jaw-dropping action, and top-notch acting. Ha Jung-woo plays Gu-nam, a taxi driver in the no-man’s-land where the borders of North Korea, China, and Russia meet. Broke and distraught that he hasn’t heard from his wife since she traveled to Seoul for a job, he agrees to commit a contract murder to get out of his debts. When his plans go awry, a bloody war erupts between ruthless rival gang bosses. It’s “one of the smartest and most inventive action films this year. … A refreshingly original story, with a darkly funny, demented and memorable baddie, crackling tension and exciting, unpredictable action” (Kevin Jagernauth, indiewire.com). Intended for mature audiences. (Dir.: Na Hong-jin, 2010, 157 min. Korean with English subtitles).
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Before Dawn
Kids and Family
Create your own printing block using Styrofoam. Then use two traditional Japanese blue pigments and Prussian blue, which was introduced in the Edo period (1615–1868), to print landscapes that convey the soft light of early dawn, just as Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai did in his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Musicians from Marlboro III
Performances
The highly regarded Marlboro Music Festival tours six of its outstanding musicians to perform Mozart’s String Quintet, K. 614; Schumann’s Piano Quartet, op. 44; and Bartók’s String Quartet no. 6. The performers are violinists Bella Hristova and Robin Scott, violists Dimitri Murrath and Vicki Powell, cellist Marcy Rosen, and pianist Cynthia Raim. The Washington Post wrote of one Marlboro concert, “Impeccable ensemble work, unbridled energy and boatloads of virtuosity produced an electrifying performance.”.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert gallery tour, Peacock Room Comes to America, 6:45 pm.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 7:30 PM.
Moving Perspectives: Kyungwon Moon
Films
Spaces accumulate layers of memories and experiences over time. Kyungwon Moon “excavates” these memories using digital imaging and performance. By reimagining particular sites in Seoul, she contemplates the differences between official history and individual memory, fact, and imagination.
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 – Saturday, April 28, 2012.
Before Dawn
Kids and Family
Create your own printing block using Styrofoam. Then use two traditional Japanese blue pigments and Prussian blue, which was introduced in the Edo period (1615–1868), to print landscapes that convey the soft light of early dawn, just as Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai did in his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Saturday, April 28, 2012, 2:00 PM.
Before Dawn
Kids and Family
Create your own printing block using Styrofoam. Then use two traditional Japanese blue pigments and Prussian blue, which was introduced in the Edo period (1615–1868), to print landscapes that convey the soft light of early dawn, just as Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai did in his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 2:00 PM.