Home. Collections. Detail, The Late Shah Jahan Album: Humayun Seated in a Landscape. More about this object. The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contain some of the most important holdings of Asian art in the world. In addition, the Freer Gallery boasts exemplary examples of late-nineteenth-century works of American landscape and portraiture by James McNeill Whistler and his contemporaries. The Sackler Gallery is host to contemporary art from Asia as well as international loan exhibitions. Together, both galleries form the national museums of Asian art at the Smithsonian Institution, and are dedicated to the acquisition, care, study, and exhibition of works in their collections. If you are visiting our galleries to see a specific work of art, please be aware that it may not always be on view. Provenance Research Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia Recent Acquisitions Freer Gallery Purchases Renowned Tea Jar.
Tate: British and international modern and contemporary art. The Museum of Islamic Art. It isn’t often that a building stuns – literally. However, this is the case with the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Traditional Islamic architecture meets the twenty first century to spectacular effect.
Nothing is done by halves here. Even the palm lines entrance (and entrancing is perhaps the right word) fills the visitor with expectation. Sublimely designed by IM Pei, the museum opened its doors to the public less than two years ago. The building is, as you might expect, heavily influenced by ancient Islamic architecture but its design is unique and there is simply no other building like it on earth. Sabhia al Khemir became the founding director of the museum in 2006. Image Credit Flickr User websterkate The idea that contemporary Islamic culture is inward looking was contradicted from the word go by the invitation to IM Pei to be the chief architect of the project. But what lies within?
The foyer itself is a grandiose mix of marble, steel and glass. The Getty. Harvard Art Museums / Welcome.