Our Asian Art Museum: The Crow at Twenty
To commemorate our founding and decades of operation, we will display twenty masterworks from across our permanent collection.
JACOB HASHIMOTO Clouds and Chaos
Jacob Hashimoto’s sculpture shows how there is much to be found.
Avatars and Incarnations: Buddhist and Hindu Art from the Collection
Avatars and Incarnations explores the concept of divine avatars in Hindu and Buddhist art.
Earthly Splendor: Korean Ceramics from the Collection
This exhibition pairs outstanding examples of contemporary and historical Korean ceramics from the museum’s permanent collection to highlight the material, aesthetic, stylistic, and technical developments that has taken place throughout history.
The Crow Collection of Asian Art, in partnership with Dallas Contemporary and the Moving Image Archive for Contemporary Art: MIACA (Hong Kong)
Styled with Poise: Figures in Japanese Paintings and Prints
Regal courtiers, lively townspeople, tragic heroines, and virtuous deities, are presented in exquisite form.
The Crow Collection of Asian Art is pleased to announce the presentation of a solo exhibition of the work of Sopheap Pich
Struck’s newest work, a meditative soundscape titled We Know You Got Soul, debuts at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
Wisdom of Compassion: The Art and Science of Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002)
Japanese artist and scientist Iwasaki Tsuneo painted as an act of devotion
Visualizing Afterlife, Paradise, and Earthly Spheres in Chinese Art
This exhibition showcases three themes found among works of art
Sculpting Nature: Jade from the Collection
The permanent collection of the Crow Collection of Asian Art is comprised of a large number of various types of jade objects from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney
The collaborative works of painter Arnold Chang and photographer Michael Cherney
Divine Pathways: South and Southeast Asian Art
For more than a thousand years, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism were influential in the artistic production of various parts of South and Southeast Asia.
Clay Between Two Seas: From the Abbasid Court to Puebla de los Angeles
This exhibition not only displays Talavera in its splendor, but also illuminates its often precarious past and glorious present. To look closely at one piece of Talavera – its design, shape and production – is to peer into a history that crosses cultural divides.
Abhidnya Ghuge: Flight of the Canyon
Abhidnya Ghuge’s Flight of the Canyon is a site-responsive installation created with thousands of woodblock-printed paper plates inspired by organic patterns found in nature.
The Divine Feminine in Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism
This exhibition features a selection of Tibetan sculptures on loan and from the Museum’s permanent collection that suggest the variety of manifestations of the feminine divine in Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, ranging from well-known forms such as benevolent bodhisattvas, fierce guardians, and forest ...
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection
Tibetan book cover design has more than a thousand-year history in which stylistic influences from Kashmir, India, Nepal, Central Asia, and later, China, were amalgamated into a uniquely Tibetan creation.
Time and Eternity: Landscape Paintings by Bireswar Sen
Bireswar Sen (1887-1974) described his calling as an artist “to limn unerringly lines of beauty with a light that never was on land or sea.” And so he did. The artist achieved great delicacy of tone and rich emotional nuance in a body of work largely done at very small scale.
Discover the diverse facets of Asia through the Crow Collection’s 2015-2016 Asian Art 101 course. In this series of monthly introductory lectures, visiting scholars speak on the following twelve topics: art in the regions of India, China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas; Contempora ...
New York based contemporary artist Jean Shin presents Celadon Landscape, a new monumental site-specific sculpture for The Crow Collection of Asian Art Sculpture Garden and Inclusions, a selection of her artwork in video, installation, photography, and mixed media at the Crow Collection.
Jean Shin: Inclusions presents a selection of Shin’s work in video, installation, photography, and mixed media. The title of the exhibition draws attention to the inclusive nature of her artistic practice, which relies heavily on accumulating large quantities of material or objects that would oth ...
At Home and at Court: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Crow Collection
This exhibition draws on the museum's holdings of paintings from China and Japan, and explores the East Asian painting formats of hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, and folding screens. These mediums, and the traditional subjects of landscapes, religious figures, bird and flower compositions, and ...
Fundamental and Superfluous: The Arts of Life in China, Japan, and Korea
This exhibition examines works of art from the Museum’s permanent collection that present artistic imagery and auspicious symbolism as design elements embedded within sculptural objects with a functional purpose. These vases, chests, and objects d’art are imbued with symbols and beliefs of the ...
Benevolence and Wisdom: New Gifts from the Collection of Trammell and Margaret Crow
This exhibition features the most recent works of art donated to the Museum at the bequest of Margaret Doggett Crow (1919-2014). Highlights of this final gift to the Museum include fine examples of Asian export porcelain, jade vessels with delicately carved auspicious imagery, and Japanese ivory ne ...
This exhibition presents a selection of choice works from the Museum’s permanent collection of art from India, focusing on a few significant time periods and geographic areas.
The Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese Fashion
This contemporary Japanese fashion exhibition explores the fashion revolution of the 1980s and features fashion by top Japanese designers Issey Miyake ,Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo who used asymmetry, unconventional construction, raw edges, oversized proportions and monochromatic palettes to rede ...
Seeing and Believing: Krishna in the Art of B. G. Sharma
This exhibition of paintings and prints tells the story of the much-loved and “eternally sweet” Hindu god Krishna with vibrant works of art that reflect the mutual relationship of divine and devotional love, while also embodying fundamental human needs.
Vivan Sundaram: Re-take of Amrita
Vivan Sundaram: Re-take of Amrita reassembles the extended story of the artist’s family as seen in photographs and albums made by his grandfather, a philosopher and amateur photographer. The resulting digital photomontages combine images collapsing both time and space into contemporary fictions.
A Porsche is a particular object of desire in China—an alluring “gold ring” of modern consumer status. This fiberglass Porsche 911 is painted with patterns derived from historical Chinese ceramics.
Jade, or not Jade? That is the Question
This exhibition draws on the Museum’s Collection and generous loans of natural worked stones to encourage reclaiming mastery of the differences for understanding and appreciating Chinese “jade,” in all its forms.
The Jerry Lee Musslewhite Collection of Korean Art
A stellar group of fifty-three artworks from Korea acquired by the Crow Collection of Asian Art in 2010.
Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals/ Zodiac Heads: Gold
The work of Ai Weiwei makes its southern United States debut.
Terang Bulan: Art from Java and Bali
The objects from Terang Bulan, or “Moonlight,” help tell the story of the diverse arts that flourished in the kratons (royal courts) from the 18th through the 20th centuries.
Taking Shape: Fresh Perspectives on Asian Bronzes
Objects ranging from small and intricately decorated Buddhist figures to a life-size Buddha showcase the development of bronze casting technologies.
Gold on Black, Japanese Lacquer from the Jacqueline Avant Collection
Many works on display originated from the dowries of feudal lord families, with family crests recording marriages of power and influence. Others were collected to delight wealthy merchants and reflect their personal tastes in dress and activities, from tea to smoking or composing poetry.
China Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872
Experience the vanished world of Imperial China vividly captured on glass plates in the first exhibition devoted solely to images of China taken by the Scottish photographer, John Thompson that startlingly reveal the character of the vast empire.
Featuring objects from the Himalayan mountains of the Eurasian continent, the importance of geography to culture emerges in this permanent collection exhibition.
On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce
On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce examines why Chinese ceramics were such prized commodities, both at home and abroad.
Sublime Landscapes: Photographs of Asia by Dr. Dilip Raval
Many of Raval’s compositions are grand and symphonic. They are simultaneously far-reaching and precise, resolving form, light, color, shape, pattern, and prospect in a deeply satisfying and delicate harmony.
Noble Change: Tantric Art of the High Himalaya
Tantric practices were first designated as distinct from those of other paths by extensive use of mantra. Vajrayana was sometimes labeled Mantrayana.
David Gibson: Toward Kasuga Shrine Along Pathways of Lanterns
David Gibson describes his approach to the important Shinto-Buddhist shrine Kasuga Taisha in Nara as he first experienced it in 2005: “Kasuga Shrine is located at the far end of Nara Park. On the walk through Nara Park, one encounters a forest with inviting paths.
Word Spirit: Calligraphy, Paintings, and Photographs by Chaco Terada
Chaco Teraada Chose Kotodama—a compound of koto (meaning “word” or “speech”) and tama (meaning “spirit” or “soul”)—for the title of the small retrospective of her work over the past decade on view this spring at the Crow Collection of Asian Art.
Jade is more than a stone; it is an ideal. Some 2,500 years ago, Confucius (Kong Qiu or Kongzi, 551-479 B.C.) provided a list of likenesses between particular sensual qualities of carved jades such as luster, surface angularity, and veining patterns and qualities of perfected human character such a ...
Qiu Anxiong: Animated Narratives
Although the paintings are acrylic on canvas, they appear at first glance to be ink paintings. The landscape images in particular refer to traditional Chinese landscape scroll paintings, with their craggy mountains and still lakes.
Fabled Journeys in Asian Art: East Asia
Looking farther east, the last section of the exhibition is an array of objects touching on the transmission of Buddhism to Japan, the transportation and exploitation of ivory for finely carved objects, and the search in Japanese ports by Western traders for porcelains that delivered the qualities o ...
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
Tradition Transformed offers vantages on this rapidly changing ground from eight artists with ties to traditional Tibetan painting.
Soaring Voices: Recent Ceramics by Women from Japan
The works in the exhibition span categories such as “traditional,” “sculptural,” “craft design,” and “installation;” and like much contemporary art, they often float above such boundaries. Inspiration for shapes, colors, and motifs is acknowledged by these artists to come from plant ...
Fabled Journeys in Asian Art: South and Southeast Asia
In works of art from all around Asia--paintings, fans, sculpture, carvings for the hand, furniture for the desk--rocks, jades, crystals, and corals-- journeys of many kinds are traced.
Black Current: Mexican Responses to Japanese Art, 17th -19th Centuries
As “The Viceroyalty of New Spain” between 1521and 1821, Mexico was a strategic player in a network of trade linking Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Silver, insects, and friars went west to Asia on galleons following the equatorial currents, and the same galleons returned on a northern easterly c ...
Tibet: The Land Closest to the Sky, Photography by Marc Riboud
The Crow Collection presents Tibet: The Land Closest to the Sky, Photographs by Marc Riboud, the first solo exhibition in Texas of one of photography’s most original and influential masters. Curated by Selina Ting, the exhibition presents Marc Riboud’s work in Tibet - photographs in color and bl ...
Five Colors: Chinese Cloisonne Vessels on Loan from the Mandel Family Collection
Cloisonné is a process of inserting colored enamel pastes into a network of cells, or “cloisons” that rise above a metal ground. The cells are formed by bending wire, usually copper, and soldering it to a metal surface, usually bronze or copper.
Mighty Meiji Metals: Sculpture from 19th Century Japan
The confidence of Japan’s new nationalistic identity in the Meiji era is displayed in this small exhibition of outstanding works of art drawn from the Crow Collection: three imposing bronze sculptures over four feet in height, a dramatic carved and lacquered wood screen ornamented with precious me ...
This is the first major exhibition in Dallas about the work of Yeohlee, whose name is synonymous with design innovation and artistic integrity. Yeohlee’s work has been exhibited at museums in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Washington D.C.
Wild Flowering: The Crow Family and Asia
In honor of Trammell and Margaret Crow, the Crow Collection of Asian Art presents Wild Flowering: The Crow Family and Asia. This exhibition focuses on the adventure of the Crow family over two generations of collecting Asian art between 1960 and the present day.
Return of the Yellow Peril: A Survey of the Work of Roger Shimomura, 1969–2007
Named after the series of paintings the artist completed in 1993, the exhibition title Return of the Yellow Peril plays on the derogatory color metaphors for Asians that originated in the 19th-century.
Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Maxwell Collection
The snuff bottles from the Maxwell Collection offer an intriguing insight into the history of imperial and private workshops in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), which endeavored to impress the social elite.
In Pursuit of Elegance and Simplicity: Chinese Scholars’ Studio Furniture from the Tseng Collection
Crafted with impressive carpentry skills, the furniture in this exhibition represents artistic elements flavored by the literati class from the 16th to the 18th century.
Modes of Expression through Execution: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Permanent Collection
Westerners have long focused on the religious nature of Indian and Southeast Asian art. In an effort to shed new light on our understanding of the art of these regions, this exhibition explores the aesthetic qualities that made them sacred.
Stitching the Seasons: Contemporary Japanese Quilts
The Crow Collection joins seventeen other Dallas institutions in the Quilt Mania II exhibitions.
Untamed Beauty: Tigers in Japanese Art
Untamed Beauty: Tigers in Japanese Art presents paintings by twenty-one Japanese artists, many of whom are among the most famous painters of the last three hundred years. Tigers are not indigenous to Japan but their absence spurred fanciful ideas about their nature and physical form.
Texas Collects Asia: Japanese Folk Art
An exclusive look at the art of private collecting in Texas and a part of the year-long series Texas Collects Asia, Texas Collects Asia: Japanese Folk Art explores Japan's renowned folk craft tradition by showcasing an impressive array of religious sculptures, paintings, and children's toy ...
Texas Collects Asia: Contemporary Art
Texas Collects Asia: Contemporary Art is a final, forward-thinking installment that showcases Asia as the future, examining the explosive trends found in prints, paintings, photographs, and sculpture of some of the most cutting-edge artists from China, Japan, and Vietnam.
Tending the Afterlife: Chinese Tomb Art from the Neolithic Period to the Ming Dynasty
Covering almost six millennia of Chinese visual culture—from the Neolithic period (c. 10,000 B.C.–c.1600 B.C.)to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644)—these objects represent the artistic creativity and technical virtuosity achieved by the Chinese artisans. Being included in tombs as burial furnishin ...
The wide range of artistic achievements from imperial China will be illuminated through carefully selected jade carvings, bronze vessels, porcelains, wooden carvings, and paintings. As it was for the Crow family, Chinese art, from ancient bronzes to imperial porcelains, has been of great interest to ...
Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change
Through the dramatic works of seven Chinese photographers, visitors will experience the country from an insider’s point of view. With raw black-and-white and color images, photographers Liu Xiaodi, Jiang Jian, Zhang Xinmin, Luo Yongjin, Zhou Hai, Lu Yuanmin, and Zhou Min unveil the truth about Chi ...
Texas Collects Asia: India and Southeast Asia
Through the highly dramatic votive sculptures and paintings, the visitor will have the possibility of experiencing the sacred events and mythology of ancient India and Southeast Asia. The artworks are selected from six private collections and two museums in Texas. They illustrate the iconographical ...
The CARU Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part III
With a history tracing back to the Jiaqing reign (1796-1820), this group of bottles represent the zenith of inside-painted snuff bottles development. Each bottle is an impeccable combination of glass making, crystal carving with Chinese ink painting and calligraphy.
This exhibition will include over twenty Japanese paintings of recent centuries that have subjects of animals, nature, humanity, and legends. These paintings reflect the artistic achievements of various schools of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and highlight the experience and emotion of t ...
The CARU Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part II
CARU Collection, Part II includes sixty bottles—an important selection of examples from the collection. In particular, there is an impressive group of enameled pottery and ceramic bottles, ingeniously painted with subjects such as court ladies, peonies, and crabs amidst waterweeds.
U-Ram Choe: New Media from Seoul
The machines materialize with such a delicacy and weightlessness that they seem to take on a shape and silhouette of organic life forms. Motors, heat and light-sensitive materials add to the intricacy of Choe’s kinetic sculptures.
Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam
Changing Identity introduces the work of ten contemporary Vietnamese women artists who challenge the stereotypes and traditional roles of women in Vietnamese society. This exhibition is the first survey of women artists from Vietnam to tour the United States. Through the use of various media, subjec ...
News from Abroad: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Yokohama, Japan
Bewilderment, confusion, fascination, fear and astonishment describe the reaction to the arrival of Western trade ships in Japanese ports in the mid-19th Century. Bizarre languages, alien customs and exotic-looking people penetrated Japanese society bridging the East and the West.
The Crow Collection of Asian Art presents this collection of kimonos along with costumes, several pieces of furniture, souvenirs, and records. Woodblock prints illustrating the life of geishas are also part of the exhibition and include an actual print of Ichimaru herself.