Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings

Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings

J. KEITH WILSONCurator of Ancient Chinese Art, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art 1 Anyang excavation team, Season 2 (1929), Li Chi seated at far left, courtesy of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica COMMEMORATING THE Freer Gallery of Art’s...
WINTER 2023 Editorial

WINTER 2023 Editorial

Ritual wine pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons and animals, Anyang or middle Yangzi region, circa 1100 BC, bronze, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, F1961.33a-b; ritual wine pouring vessel (gong) with masks (taotie) and dragons, middle of late Anyang...
AUTUMN 2023 Editorial

AUTUMN 2023 Editorial

View of the MFAH exhibition, “Woven Wonders: Indian Textiles from the Parpia Collection” FOR THIS AUTUMN 2023 issue, I am delighted to present the richness of the Asian art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). My team and I warmly thank the six...