Accession 19-047

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Website Records, 2011-2017

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Freer and Sackler Galleries) website and blog as well as individual web pages related to the IlluminAsia Festival, October 14-15, 2017, celebrating the reopening of the Freer Gallery of Art.

The Freer and Sackler Galleries website includes online exhibitions, visitor information, donor information, and educational resources. It was crawled on October 6, 2017, and again on October 15, 2017, after the site was redesigned.

The "Bento: Art Outside the Box" blog, crawled on October 23, 2017, shares the stories of the museums' resources, staff, exhibitions, and special events. The blog was established in November 2011.

A page featuring the reopening of the Freer Gallery of Art on the primary Smithsonian Institution website was crawled on October 16, 2017.

The IlluminAsia Festival page of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival website was crawled on October 17, 2017. The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, which manages the Folklife Festival, was primarily responsible for organizing IlluminAsia.

Materials are in electronic format.

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Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.

Name

• Freer Gallery of Art
• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
• Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
• Smithsonian Folklife Festival
• IlluminAsia Festival
• Whistler's Neighborhood: Impressions of a Changing London (Online exhibition)
• Sweet Silent Thought: Whistler's Interiors (Online exhibition)
• Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani (Online exhibition)
• James McNeill Whistler (Online exhibition)
• Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade (Online exhibition)
• Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation (Online exhibition)
• Caliphs and Kings: The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain (Online exhibition)
• Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey (Online exhibition)
• Adventures of Hamza (Online exhibition)
• Haft Awrang: A Royal Persian Manuscript by Jami (Online exhibition)
• In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 (Online exhibition)
• Perspectives: Mei-ling Hom (Online exhibition)
• Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries (Online exhibition)
• Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing (Online exhibition)
• Ancestor Worship Today (Online exhibition)
• A Closer Look at Conservation: Chinese Commemorative Portraits (Online exhibition)
• Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History (Online exhibition)
• Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics (Online exhibition)
• Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (Online exhibition)
• Hokusai (Online exhibition)
• Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection (Online exhibition)
• Tibetan Healing Mandala (Online exhibition)
• Devi: The Great Goddess (Online exhibition)
• Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion (Online exhibition)
• East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art (Online exhibition)
• Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Online exhibition)
• Facing East: Portraits from Asia (Online exhibition)
• Faith and Form: Selected Calligraphy and Painting from Japanese Religious Traditions (Online exhibition)
• Bento: Art Outside the Box (Blog)

Subject

• Blogs
• Web sites
• Art museums
• Art, Asian
• Museums -- Public relations
• Special events
• Museums -- Educational aspects
• Museum exhibits

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

• Electronic records
• Web sites

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 19-047, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Website Records

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