From the Bronze Age to China to Japan's Floating World August 29, 2009

The exhibition presents works from many eras and broad geography, from China's Zhou dynasty, which ruled between the 11th and third centuries B.C.E., to the 1800s in Edo, Japan, and to 20th-century East Asia and features a diverse range of cultures and historical periods, in a breadth of media, including bronzes, ceramics, woodcut prints, calligraphy, sculpture and paintings. Highlights include a bronze vessel, a Zhou dynasty food container used during ancient rituals, decorated with animal mask motifs.