'The Traveler's Eye' Museum Exhibit Envisions Journeys through Asia

  • September 16, 2014
'The Traveler's Eye' Museum Exhibit Envisions Journeys through Asia
Featuring more than 100 works created over five centuries, “The Traveler's Eye: Scenes of Asia,” opening at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Nov. 22, looks beneath the surfaces of representations of travels across Asia, from expeditions for trade and research to pilgrimages and pleasure jaunts.

On view through May 29, 2015, the exhibition presents works by artists, photographers and scholars who recorded actual journeys, as well as works by artists who created imagined journeys to and across Asia. Curated by seven experts, the objects range from masterpieces of Asian art to quirky souvenirs–woodblock prints, ink paintings and art photography to archaeological drawings, vintage postcards and diaries.

On view November 22, 2014 to May 31, 2015, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560