A large crowd watching a lion dancer perform in front of the museum during the 2024 Lunar New Year Festival. Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The Jigoku-zoshi (“Handscrolls of Buddhist Hell”) is a Japanese scroll from the late 12th century that graphically depicts naked, horrified monks running away from bands of vicious, animal ...
The partnership between the Chu-Griffis Art Collection and the Charles E. Shain Library attained new prominence with the announcement in early 2001 that John and Heidi Niblack would honor Professor ...