Freer and Sackler Galleries Events Calendar

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, February 11, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, February 11, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Sculpting the Seasons

Workshops Try your hand at Japanese flower-arranging and learn about the art on view in the Freer’s Seasons exhibitions. No experience necessary. Refreshments provided by Asia Nine. Note: The workshop is full. To be put on a waiting list, please email asiaworkshops@si.edu with “February 11 Inner-Artist Workshop Waiting List Request” in the subject line. No-show seats are filled with those on the waiting list when the workshop begins at 1 pm. You may pay on-site with cash or check at that time . Categories: Workshops. Co-sponsor: Made possible by The Education Program Fund. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Freer Conference Room. Cost: $15. Related Exhibition: Seasons. Saturday, February 11, 2012, 1:00 PM.

In Every Language Love

Kids and Family An Open House for All Ages In the classroom, enjoy a digital slideshow of images of love in Asian art. Use stamps that say “love” in more than a dozen Asian languages to print Valentines to take home. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler sublevel 2. Cost: Free. Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Timely Images: Chinese Art Related to Seasonal Festivals

Talks and Lectures Seasonal festivals in China were important occasions for the creation, display, and presentation of gifts of art featuring specific, timely images. For example, paintings depicting a bouquet of pomegranate flowers, calamus leaves, and a branch of moxa were appropriate only for the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival. Representations of roosters, considered lucky, were associated with the Chinese New Year, while images of a peony and butterfly signaled the Birthday of the Flowers. This lecture by Jan Stuart, keeper of Asia at the British Museum, examines the close bond between a wide range of pictorial arts and their temporal conventions. She explores the role of art in marking the passage of the yearly cycle and how it was folded into China’s abiding rhythms of nature and human culture. Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, February 12, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, February 12, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Mourning

Films Winner of the top prize at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival, Morteza Farshbaf’s debut feature is unique in a number of ways—not the least of which is that the two main characters are deaf and communicate almost entirely in sign language. As the characters bicker during a road trip, the audience learns tantalizing pieces of information about their passenger, a young relative whose parents disappeared in the middle of the night. A protégé of Abbas Kiarostami, Farshbaf “fashions a consistently surprising and blackly comic road trip that may herald the arrival of a major new Iranian talent” (Institute of Contemporary Art, London). (Dir.: Morteza Farshbaf, Iran, 2011, 84 min. Persian and sign language with English subtitles, video). Categories: Films. Co-sponsor: This screening is copresented by the Global Film Initiative and is part of the Global Lens 2012 film series. For more information, visit www.globalfilm.org. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, February 12, 2012, 2:00 PM.

In Every Language Love

Kids and Family An Open House for All Ages In the classroom, enjoy a digital slideshow of images of love in Asian art. Use stamps that say “love” in more than a dozen Asian languages to print Valentines to take home. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler sublevel 2. Cost: Free. Sunday, February 12, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, February 13, 2012, 11:00 AM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, February 13, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, February 13, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, February 13, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 11:00 AM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Noodles and a Movie at the Freer!

Films To introduce Taiwan's food culture and celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office collaborates with the Freer and Sackler in welcoming foodies and cinema lovers to savor a free film and feast. One of Taiwan's top culinary artists, chef Hou Chun-sheng, winner of the 2011 Taipei Beef Noodle Soup Competition, serves his special beef noodles during a reception at the Freer, followed by a screening of Eat Drink Man Woman. Chef Hou's beef noodles are a must-eat for international gourmets and the perfect dish to prepare viewers for Eat Drink Man Woman—Taiwan-born director Ang Lee's food-centered film about an elderly chef and his family as they experience the trials and joys of life in modern Taiwan. Settle in and enjoy an evening of homestyle Taiwan food culture! Free and open to the public. Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, February 16, 2012, 11:00 AM.

Peacock Room Shutters Open

The Peacock Room is open during museum hours, but once a month it is shown in a whole new light. When the shutters of Whistler’s “harmony in blue and gold” are open, a flood of natural light turns the Peacock Room into a glowing jewel of blue, green, and gold tones. Details, colors, and textures are revealed in the sunlight—and a special filtering film on the windows minimizes fading. The shutters are open from noon to 5:30 pm every third Thursday of the month into spring 2013. On those days, docents are in the Peacock Room to answer questions (12–2 pm), and starting at 2, they lead a tour of Whistler’s works on view in the Freer Gallery. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Continues: Every third Thursday. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America. Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

Spotlight: Peacock Room

Tours As an alternative to a tour, drop in during this hour-long block to have an informal conversation with a docent about the exhibition. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America. Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, February 16, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Whistler and the Peacock Room

Tours Hear the story of James McNeill Whistler's controversial decoration of the Peacock Room, originally in the London home of shipping magnate Frederick R. Leyland. Explore other works by Whistler in the Freer's American art galleries, and find out how he influenced Charles Lang Freer's aesthetic sensibility. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America. Thursday, February 16, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 17, 2012, 11:00 AM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 17, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 17, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 17, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Here without Me

Films Bahram Tavakoli’s adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie is a brilliantly acted restaging of the original’s themes within the cultural confines of contemporary Iran. As in Williams’ play, the story is told from the point of view of a cinema-haunting young man. His shy, disabled sister takes refuge in her collection of glass animals while their overbearing mother, played with motor-mouthed aplomb by Montreal Film Festival award-winner Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, works desperately to match her with a marriageable man—which she thinks she may have found in her son’s best friend. (Dir.: Bahram Tavakoli, Iran, 2011, 97 min. Persian with English subtitles). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 17, 2012, 7:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, February 18, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, February 18, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Art Cart: Unearthing Chinese Art

Kids and Family Stop by this interactive cart to explore examples of natural and carved jade and the tools used to shape them. Learn how bronzes were made by assembling the parts of a bronze mold. Touch pieces of jade and bronze. Discover designs in the works of art in the Ancient China galleries. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Outside galleries 18 and 19. Cost: Free. Related Events: Sounds of the Dragon. Saturday, February 18, 2012, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, February 19, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, February 19, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Here without Me

Films Bahram Tavakoli’s adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie is a brilliantly acted restaging of the original’s themes within the cultural confines of contemporary Iran. As in Williams’ play, the story is told from the point of view of a cinema-haunting young man. His shy, disabled sister takes refuge in her collection of glass animals while their overbearing mother, played with motor-mouthed aplomb by Montreal Film Festival award-winner Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, works desperately to match her with a marriageable man—which she thinks she may have found in her son’s best friend. (Dir.: Bahram Tavakoli, Iran, 2011, 97 min. Persian with English subtitles). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, February 19, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, February 20, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, February 20, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 11:00 AM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Music From Japan: Echoes of the Silk Road

Performances Hear ancient musical instruments brought to Japan along the Silk Road—with a focus on the long-extinct Persian harp (kugo). Fuyuhiko Sasaki performs both new and recreated works for the harp, joined by a six-piece ensemble of winds, voice, and percussion in music by Sasaki, Akiko Yamane, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Maki Ishii, Takehito Shimazu, and Sukeyasu Shiba. Made possible through support from the Thaw Charitable Trust; part of Music From Japan Festival 2012. Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert tour, Korean Ceramics, 6:45 pm. Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 7:30 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, February 23, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, February 23, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, February 23, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 24, 2012, 11:00 AM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 24, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 24, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, February 24, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, February 25, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, February 25, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Art Cart: Unearthing Chinese Art

Kids and Family Stop by this interactive cart to explore examples of natural and carved jade and the tools used to shape them. Learn how bronzes were made by assembling the parts of a bronze mold. Touch pieces of jade and bronze. Discover designs in the works of art in the Ancient China galleries. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Outside galleries 18 and 19. Cost: Free. Saturday, February 25, 2012, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, February 26, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, February 26, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, February 27, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, February 27, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 1, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 1, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 2, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 2, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Debussy at 150: Calefax Reed Quintet

Performances The flamboyant Dutch ensemble performs its vibrant arrangements of music inspired by painters, including the Estampes and Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy, who was strongly influenced by Whistler and Japanese prints; Enrique Granados’ Goyesca; Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano; and Hans Abrahamsen’s Walden. Praised by the New York Times for their “unadulterated virtuosity,” the Calefax musicians moved the London Times to describe them as “extremely gifted Dutch gents who almost made the wind quintet seem the best musical format on the planet.”. Categories: Performances. Co-sponsor: Funded by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert gallery tour, Freer and Whistler, 6:45 pm. Friday, March 2, 2012, 7:30 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 3, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 3, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Nowruz! A Persian New Year Celebration

Dance, play, and feast your way into the Persian New Year at the Freer and Sackler Galleries. The museums' fourth annual Nowruz celebration features free attractions for all ages—including Haft Sin table displays, "fire" jumping, paper-flower arranging, Nowruz memory photo booths, chess and backgammon games, a text-messaging scavenger hunt, Persian stories by Xanthe Gresham, performances by vocalist Monika Jalili (free tickets required) and the Nomad Dancers, and contemporary Persian dance beats by Radio Javan—along with traditional Persian food for sale by Moby Dick House of Kabob. Made possible by a generous grant from Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar. Categories: Kids & Families. Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Freer and Sackler Galleries. Cost: Free. Sunday, March 4, 2012, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

Monika Jalili

Performances Vocalist Monika Jalili brings to life cherished Iranian songs from the 1940s to the 1970s, along with beloved folk songs in Persian, Azeri, and other Iranian languages. She is joined by her outstanding ensemble on violin, guitar, oud, and percussion. Jallili earned her degree in voice from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music and has performed her Iranian repertoire at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, (Les) Poisson Rouge, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, as well as in London, Paris, Montreal, Budapest, and Helsinki. Made possible by a generous grant from Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar. Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Sunday, March 4, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Monika Jalili

Performances Vocalist Monika Jalili brings to life cherished Iranian songs from the 1940s to the 1970s, along with beloved folk songs in Persian, Azeri, and other Iranian languages. She is joined by her outstanding ensemble on violin, guitar, oud, and percussion. Jallili earned her degree in voice from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music and has performed her Iranian repertoire at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, (Les) Poisson Rouge, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, as well as in London, Paris, Montreal, Budapest, and Helsinki. Made possible by a generous grant from Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar. Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Sunday, March 4, 2012, 5:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 5, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 5, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 8, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 9, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 9, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 10, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 10, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 11, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 11, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Foxy Festival

Films When the police announce an effort to rid their precinct of sleaze, they run into a problem: It seems every citizen has a skeleton in the closet—or, more accurately, a blowup doll or set of handcuffs. Lee Jae-young’s bawdy comedy is a lighthearted romp that reveals the naughty underbelly of a well-mannered Seoul neighborhood. The film’s frank yet good-humored take on everything from sex toys to bondage caused a sensation in Korea, and its immensely talented cast of comedic performers delivers an uplifting message of self-acceptance with wit and verve. Intended for mature audiences. (Dir.: Lee Hae-young, 2010, 110 min. Korean with English subtitles). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 11, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 12, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 12, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Moving Perspectives: Minouk Lim

Films The series begins with Minouk Lim, whose work is also on view in Perspectives: Minouk Lim (through March 18, Sackler Pavilion). Two of her recent works, SOS Adoptive Dissensus (2009) and Firecliff 2_Seoul (2011), explore the enduring power of physical spaces and modern history in the collective memory of contemporary Korea. Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 15, 2012 – Saturday, March 17, 2012.

Peacock Room Shutters Open

The Peacock Room is open during museum hours, but once a month it is shown in a whole new light. When the shutters of Whistler’s “harmony in blue and gold” are open, a flood of natural light turns the Peacock Room into a glowing jewel of blue, green, and gold tones. Details, colors, and textures are revealed in the sunlight—and a special filtering film on the windows minimizes fading. The shutters are open from noon to 5:30 pm every third Thursday of the month into spring 2013. On those days, docents are in the Peacock Room to answer questions (12–2 pm), and starting at 2, they lead a tour of Whistler’s works on view in the Freer Gallery. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Continues: Every third Thursday. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America. Thursday, March 15, 2012, 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

Spotlight: Peacock Room

Tours As an alternative to a tour, drop in during this hour-long block to have an informal conversation with a docent about the exhibition. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America. Thursday, March 15, 2012, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 15, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 15, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Whistler and the Peacock Room

Tours Hear the story of James McNeill Whistler's controversial decoration of the Peacock Room, originally in the London home of shipping magnate Frederick R. Leyland. Explore other works by Whistler in the Freer's American art galleries, and find out how he influenced Charles Lang Freer's aesthetic sensibility. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Peacock Room. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: The Peacock Room Comes to America. Thursday, March 15, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 16, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 16, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Anyang, Paradise City

Films Photographer and video artist Park Chan-kyong’s first feature-length film blends documentary and fictional elements to create a portrait of Anyang, South Korea. It is a journey through the layers of history that have shaped the city and its environment, from a tragic fire that killed 22 female workers during the 1988 Olympics to the painstaking excavation of a thousand-year-old temple, and from the search for a legendary 500-year-old “grandmother tree” to an investigation into the ways Buddhism is interwoven into the region’s history. Presented in conjunction with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. (Dir.: Park Chan-kyong, 2011, 102 min. Korean with English subtitles, video). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 16, 2012, 7:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 17, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 17, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Kayhan Kalhor, kamanche; Behrouz Jamali, tombak

Performances One of the great masters of Persian music—and a three-time Grammy nominee—Kayhan Kalhor returns to the Freer for a rare intimate performance on the traditional Iranian kamanche (spike fiddle). Kalhor is a longtime performer and composer with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and is cofounder of the Masters of Persian Music, Dastan, and Ghazal (with Shujaat Khan and Swapan Chaudhuri). His many other collaborations have ranged from work with Brooklyn Rider and the New York Philharmonic to the soundtrack for Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth. He is accompanied by Behrouz Jamali on tombak (drum). Categories: Performances. Co-sponsor: Made possible through support from the Thaw Charitable Trust. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert gallery tour, Arts of the Islamic World, 6:45 pm. Saturday, March 17, 2012, 7:30 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 18, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 18, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Cyrano Agency

Films Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right but lack the charm to make your beloved notice you? Hire the Cyrano Agency! In Kim Hyun-seok’s crowd-pleasing comedy, a troupe of poor actors takes inspiration from Cyrano de Bergerac and starts a business to help the lovelorn via meticulous surveillance, extreme makeovers, and elaborately stage-managed “chance meetings” with the objects of their desire. Mixing plenty of whimsy with a bit of suspense and a dash of melodrama, this is Korean romantic comedy at its finest. (Dir.: Kim Hyun-seok, 2010, 117 min. Korean with English subtitles). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 18, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 18, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 19, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 19, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 19, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 22, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 22, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 22, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 23, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 23, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 23, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 24, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas

Kids and Family Use an activity guide to explore the exhibition 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In the classroom, create a layered miniature diorama (tatebanko) using images of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints to explore his use of perspective. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PM.

The Art of Kabuki: Bando Kotoji

Performances Traditional dance master Bando Kotoji demonstrates and discusses scenes from famous kabuki plays in the style developed by Bando Mitsugoro III (1775–1832). He elucidates the intricacies of kabuki costumes, makeup, postures, and movement, which are supported by exquisite live music for shamisen, chanter, and percussion. The scenes include “Yoshino-yama,” set on a famous Japanese mountain known for its cherry blossoms. As part of the program, select members of the audience receive onstage instruction for basic kabuki dance footwork and fan gestures, typical male and female gestures, and a simple dance piece from the traditional repertory. The US tour of Bando Kotoji and the kabuki musicians is organized by the Japan Society, with funding from the Japan Foundation. Categories: Demonstrations. Lectures & Discussions. Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 25, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 25, 2012, 1:00 PM.

My Dear Desperado

Films She’s a recent college graduate from the country; he’s a grouchy gangster who’s not very good at his job. As she struggles to find work and he considers getting out of the crime game, these neighbors in a crummy Seoul apartment building become an adorably odd couple. This sophisticated and very modern romantic comedy from first-time director Kim Kwang-sik is a sterling example of a genre that has become a Korean specialty. The chemistry sizzles between charismatic stars Park Joong-hoon (Radio Star; Nowhere to Hide) and Jeong Yu-mi (Like You Know it All; A Bittersweet Life), and the film’s dry humor and focus on the economically downtrodden lend a fresh twist to a familiar theme. (Dir.: Kim Kwang-sik, Korea, 2010, 105 min. video, Korean with English subtitles). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas

Kids and Family Use an activity guide to explore the exhibition 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In the classroom, create a layered miniature diorama (tatebanko) using images of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints to explore his use of perspective. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 26, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 26, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, March 26, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Musicians from Marlboro II

Performances Young virtuosos from the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival perform Haydn’s String Quartet, op. 54, no. 1; Beethoven’s String Quintet, op. 29; and Brahms’ Clarinet Trio, op. 114. The ensemble features violinists David Bowlin and Robin Scott, violists Kyle Armbrust and Emily Deans, cellist Peter Stumpf, clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois, and pianist Gabriele Carcano. The Washington Post called concerts by the Musicians from Marlboro “a virtual guarantee of musical excellence.”. Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert gallery tour, Arts of Japan, 6:45 pm. Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:30 PM.

Moving Perspectives: Hyunjhin Baik

Films Baik’s The End (2009) assembles well-known characters in Korean cinema into experimental, fragmented scenes that play with formal cinematic devices and narrative progression. While the various possible plots remain enigmatic, the resulting work is a visual and psychological portrait of four individuals and the ultimate inscrutability of life. Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 29, 2012 – Saturday, March 31, 2012.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 29, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, March 29, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 30, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 30, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 30, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, March 30, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 31, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 31, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 31, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas

Kids and Family Use an activity guide to explore the exhibition 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In the classroom, create a layered miniature diorama (tatebanko) using images of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints to explore his use of perspective. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 31, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, March 31, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 1, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Invasion of Alien Bikini

Films In this ingenious, micro-budget sci-fi movie, Young-gun, a self-appointed urban hero with a fake moustache, rescues a damsel in distress. She turns out to be a space alien on a mission to be impregnated by an earthling, by any means necessary. Unfortunately for her, Young-gun has taken a vow of chastity and would rather play Jenga than bed a comely ET. Produced for less than $5,000, this gem is yet another example of the creativity of Korea’s independent filmmakers. It delivers action, comedy, martial arts, a splash of gore, and surprising shifts in tone that take the film beyond the exploitative nature that its title implies. Intended for mature audiences. (Dir.: Oh Young-doo, 2011, 75 min. Korean with English subtitles, video). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 1, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 1, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 1, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas

Kids and Family Use an activity guide to explore the exhibition 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In the classroom, create a layered miniature diorama (tatebanko) using images of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints to explore his use of perspective. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 1, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 1, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 1, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Red Vacance, Black Wedding

Films Veteran directors Kim Tai-sik (Driving with My Wife’s Lover) and Park Cheol-su (301, 302) joined forces for this tag-team project, with each contributing a short narrative about infidelity. In Kim’s ribald slapstick comedy XX Vacance, a married man’s vacation with his mistress goes wildly awry when his wife turns up to exact punishment for his cheating. In Park’s XX Wedding, a divorced professor is surprised when a former student and lover shows up at a restaurant they used to frequent instead of going on her honeymoon, leading them down the memory lane of their passionate affair. Jo Seon-muk’s performances as the leading man in both films are remarkable for their striking differences. Other films are as bold in their depiction of sexuality, but few are as honest and mature as these in their depiction of raw desire and its implications. Intended for mature audiences. (Dirs.: Kim Tai-sik and Park Cheol-su, 2011, 90 min. Korean with English subtitles, video). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 1, 2012, 3:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, April 2, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, April 2, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, April 2, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, April 2, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 5, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 5, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 5, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 5, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 5, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, April 6, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, April 6, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, April 6, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, April 6, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 7, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 7, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 7, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 7, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 8, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 8, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 8, 2012, 1:00 PM.

End of Animal

Films Soon-young, a pregnant teenager on a taxi ride to the country, is joined by a mysterious passenger who begins a countdown to the moment when “the angels will descend.” After a blinding flash of light, Soon-young wakes up alone in the cab with a dead cell phone and a note telling her to stay put. Instead she ventures out into the barren landscape. Is this the apocalypse, is someone playing a trick on her, or is she going mad? “Cinematic clues that you’re in one genre will steer you wrong time and again, as this gripping and deeply unsettling debut by newcomer Jo Sung-hee unwinds its small, personal tale of apocalypse with menace and dark humor” (Frako Loden, San Francisco International Film Festival). (Jo Sung-hee, 2010, 110 min. Korean with English subtitles, video). Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 8, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 8, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Sunday, April 8, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, April 9, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, April 9, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, April 9, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Monday, April 9, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 12, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 12, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 12, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Arts of Japan

Tours Travel to Japan by examining the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of Japanese screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Learn about the works' importance in Japanese culture, past and present. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 12, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Thursday, April 12, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Freer Medal Award Ceremony

John Rosenfield, professor emeritus of East Asian art at Harvard University, has been selected to receive the Freer Medal in recognition of his seminal contributions to his field. Professor Rosenfield, the thirteenth recipient of the medal, is a distinguished scholar of Japanese art and related fields, whose research has encompassed a wide range of time periods and media. As a curator, he has trained many of the scholars who are active in the field today. Free and open to the public, the award ceremony includes a lecture by Professor Rosenfield. Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free and open to the public. Thursday, April 12, 2012, 6:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, April 13, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, April 13, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, April 13, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Friday, April 13, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 14, 2012, 12:00 PM.

Tour: Freer Highlights

Tours Learn about the history of the Freer Gallery, the first Smithsonian museum devoted to the fine arts. Discover how museum founder Charles Lang Freer shaped the collection in the late nineteenth century and how he developed his vision for the museum. Explore its outstanding holdings of Asian and American works of art. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Freer information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 14, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Tour: Sackler Highlights

Tours Explore the Sackler Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The museum opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. Among its highlights are early Chinese bronzes and jades, Chinese paintings and lacquerware, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 14, 2012, 1:00 PM.

Anime Artists Encounter Arhats

Kids and Family Use a manga-style activity book to explore the exhibition Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples. Then return to the classroom for instruction in anime and manga drawing from an anime artist. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 14, 2012, 2:00 PM.

Tour: Two Artists, Two Series, One Modern Society

Tours Few artists better captured the energy and turmoil present in nineteenth-century Japanese society than did Katsushika Hokusai and Kano Kazunobu, both residents of the great metropolis of Edo (now Tokyo). Explore in two concurrent exhibitions—Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples—how these near-contemporaries observed the clash and complementarity of tradition and radical change in a culture thrust into modernity. Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Meet at the Sackler information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in. Saturday, April 14, 2012, 2:00 PM.