The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, one of the two national museums of Asian art, will present a variety of special public programs and connective exhibitions with the adjacent Arthur M. Sackler ...

The Freer Gallery of Art, an eclectic cross-cultural collection housed in a Renaissance-style palace, has been closed for renovation since January 2016. The museum reopens October 14. Andrew Warner ...

The Lotus Sutra (chapters 20-23) shows an unusual variation in the thickness of the lines in an attempt to write Chinese script that mimics the fluidity of Sanskrit. The 12th-century hand scroll is on ...

The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will mark the reopening of the museums by celebrating “Where Asia Meets America” on the National Mall. The grounds of the Freer and ...

In a hallway of the Freer Gallery, you’ll find “Head of a Pharaoh,” a sleek stone-and-copper bust that’s more than 4,000 years old. It looks like the sort of thing the museum’s namesake, Charles Lang ...

If you can’t wait for spring, head down to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC, to the new exhibit on season. The Freer, one of the premier U.S. art museums for Asian Art, has dug into their ...

Patterned paper lanterns, a vast maze of Asian food stalls and the sounds of traditional Middle Eastern songs greeted visitors of the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Science, Labor and Art had been living outdoors for more than a decade. They endured autumn rains and winter winds. In the springtime, pollen clung to their ...

On this day in 1906, Charles Lang Freer and the Smithsonian Institution agreed to the donation of his art collection and funds for the building of a museum to house it. Lisa Fthenakis Correspondence ...

Beginning in 2016, the Freer Gallery of Art will close to the public for a major renovation. The Smithsonian Institution’s first fine-art museum will shut its doors to the public on Jan. 4, 2016, with ...