The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

The National Museum of Asian Art is presenting “Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings,” the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Anyang, the capital of ancient China’s Shang ...

Smithsonian’s ‘Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings’ is the first major U.S. show devoted to artifacts from the capital of the 3,000-year-old Shang Dynasty.

NMAA opened in 1923 as America’s first national art museum and the first Asian art museum in the United States. The museum now stewards one of the world’s most important collections of Asian art , ...

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Art & Exhibitions Ancient Mythical Beasts Come Alive at This South Asian Art Exhibition “Mythical, Divine, Demonic” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art explores the role of animals in South ...

In his book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, ... also found fertile ground in Southeast Asia, ...

In 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian batik an “intangible cultural heritage of humanity.” That recognition is meant to preserve a nation’s cultural legacy, but it can also calcify traditions.

Four ancient bronze sculptures looted from Thailand more than half a century ago are set to return home from the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Thai officials announced this week. The long ...

I have never taken an art history course, unless you count two COVID-impacted Zoom classes. Particularly given the weight of everything I don’t know, engaging with ancient art can be a fraught task.

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.