Subscribe to our blog via email
-
Recent Posts
Categories
October 2024 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Category Archives: Curator Blog Post
New temporary display of works by Xu Bing
From 2 March Gallery 10 | Admission Free Xu Bing (b.1955, Chongqing, Sichuan) is a leading contemporary artist from China renowned for works of art that explore language. To mark his visit to Oxford in March for the 2018 Oxford … Continue reading
Diary of a Tea Ceremony Demonstration
Every month, except over Christmas and during the summer holidays, we hold a Japanese tea ceremony demonstration in the traditional Japanese tea house in the Museum’s Japanese galleries. The tea house was designed and built especially for the Ashmolean by … Continue reading
Posted in Curator Blog Post
Tagged Ashmolean, Dr Clare Pollard, green tea, ichigo ichie, Japanese tea ceremony, Japanese tea house, matcha, wabi
Leave a comment
Collecting the Past: Scholars’ Taste in Chinese Art
Exhibition dates: 21 Mar to 22 Oct 2017 Gallery 11 | Admission Free Collecting the Past, Scholars’ taste in Chinese Art, on view at the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Gallery 11, March 21st through October 22nd, 2017, explores … Continue reading
Collecting the Past: Scholars’ Taste in Chinese Art – part II
Exhibition dates: 21 Mar to 22 Oct 2017 Gallery 11 | Admission Free Collecting the Past, Scholars’ taste in Chinese Art, on view at the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Gallery 11, March 21st through October 22nd, 2017, explores … Continue reading
Beyond the Brush—Abstract Ink Painting since 1960
Exhibition dates: 4 April to 28 August 2017 Gallery 29 | Admission Free The New display Beyond the Brush—Abstract Ink Painting since 1960 in gallery 29 explores abstraction in Chinese art. The paintings, selected from the Ashmolean Collection, combine elements … Continue reading