The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art includes the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Freer Gallery houses one of the premier collections of Asian art, with objects ...

The collector and the gallery he endowed are known mostly for East Asian art and the work of American artist James McNeill Whistler. But Freer was briefly smitten with Egyptian objects, which in ...

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have long described themselves as the Smithsonian’s Asian art museums. Now the two institutions want to be known as the National Museum ...

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The work of Dong Qichang defined Chinese art. By dating paintings and figuring out who painted certain works, Dong, a 17th-century artist, helped create an understanding of the art that came ...

When Detroit business magnate Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) began collecting the works of American painter James McNeill Whistler in the 1880s, the artist enco ...

Science, Labor and Art had been living outdoors for more than a decade. They endured autumn rains and winter winds. In the springtime, pollen clung to their bodies and clothes. In the summer, beads… ...

The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art is opening the shutters to display its famed Peacock Room in natural sunlight for the first time in 25 years to give visitors a fuller view of its artworks.

A large marble slab, purchased by the museum’s founder Charles Lang Freer in New York City in 1915, had long been a mystery. “When he bought it, it was unclear exactly what it was,” says Wilson.

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