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Today at the Museum

May 23, 2013
LECTURE

Thinking Globally: Exploring the MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian Art Collection

7 – 8 p.m.
Pillsbury Auditorium

Presenter: Risha Lee, the MIA's Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. The MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian art collection contains many gems of art, produced in a variety of times and places. In an introduction to the collecti...
Exhibition

Maruyama Okyo, 1733-95, Japan, Edo period, Sitting Tiger, 1777, Ink and colors on silk; hanging scroll

Untamed Beauty: Tigers in Japanese Art

Saturday, March 5, 2005—Sunday, May 22, 2005
U.S. Bank Gallery
Free Exhibition

The tiger figures prominently in Asian mythology, where it is identified with yin, the female principle, as well as autumn, wind, and the West. Artists often paired tigers with their cosmological cousin, the dragon, indentified with the yang, the male principle, as well as spring, rain, and the East. Although tigers are not indigenous to Japan, their absence seems to have created great interest in them and spurred fanciful ideas about their nature and physical form.

This exhibition features 21 hanging scrolls along with a magnificent pair of folding screens. Many of Japan's most famous painters of the last three hundred years are featured, including Tawaraya Sotatsu, Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Kano Tsunenobu, and Kishi Ganku.