Citadel of Aleppo from outside Bab Antakiya, Ernst Herzfeld Papers The Syrian city of Aleppo has received a lot of coverage recently due to the…
Month: May 2022
Celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee
To celebrate HM The Queen’s platinum Jubilee, we’ll be looking back at her longstanding relationship with the Science Museum, spanning over 8 decades. Throughout her…
Utamaro: The Musical at the Freer|Sackler
“Utamaro: The Musical,” recently performed at the Freer|Sackler. More than two hundred years after his death, the great Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) came back…
A glimpse of an archaeological excavation in Iraq-Kurdistan
This year, my team and I, the Qara Dagh Regional Archaeological project (QDRAP), has begun the excavation of a Late Chalcolithic 3-5 (3900/3850-3100 BC) site…
A Closer Look: Monkeys Grasp for the Moon
Artist Xu Bing The first installation I saw when I stepped through the doors of the Freer|Sackler to start my summer internship was Xu Bing’s…
Indonesia Intrepid I – Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
Emma at Ratu Boko (photo by Jinah Kim) Emma Natalya Stein, Freer|Sackler curatorial fellow for Southeast Asian art, shares scenes from her recent journey to…
A Look Back at the 2017 Hong Kong Film Festival
Twenty years ago this July, rule over the territory of Hong Kong was transferred from Great Britain to China. To mark the occasion, this year’s…
The Mystery of the Missing Frame
It was three hours into my internship at the Freer|Sackler, and I already had a mystery to solve: a Whistler frame. No, artist James McNeill…
Revisiting Whistler’s Neighborhood: Freer and Whistler’s Final Days Together
Portrait of Whistler; Thomas Robert Way, 1895; lithograph on paper, Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1901.188 “A gentler, nobler, purer soul never entered heaven if…
Revisiting Whistler’s Neighborhood: The House with the Copper Door
Last fall, the Freer|Sackler’s curator of American art, Lee Glazer, traveled to London with artist Darren Waterston to speak at the Chelsea Arts Club, the…