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Asian Art
The MFAH collection of Asian art comes primarily from five geographic areas: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea. Smaller holdings include art from Burma, Cambodia, Mongolia, Thailand, and Tibet. In keeping with the museum´s mission to reflect the city of Houston and its many communities, the MFAH is emphasizing Asian art in a new way. A major initiative to expand and update the galleries in the Caroline Wiess Law Building is in progress, and visitors are seeing the results unfold before their eyes with the openings of galleries dedicated to each of the five primary areas.
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The Arts of Asia Today: An Overview
The museum´s galleries of Asian art showcase works that range from 2400 B.C. to the 21st century.
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Arts of Korea
The Arts of Korea Gallery at the MFAH—the only museum gallery in the Southwest dedicated to Korean art—is filled with both ancient and contemporary art, spanning 5,000 years of cultural history.
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Indonesian Gold
More than 200 works of spectacular quality, without parallel in another American museum, are on view at the MFAH in the Indonesian Gold Gallery.
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Arts of India
The only space in Houston devoted to Indian arts and culture, the Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Gallery bridges the past with the present.
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Arts of China
Scheduled to open in the Caroline Wiess Law Building in October 2010, the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery will present ceramics, bronzes, sculptures, and paintings dating from 3000 B.C. to the 21st century.
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Arts of Japan
The Arts of Japan Gallery, scheduled to open in 2011, will feature an outstanding array of art spanning more than 5,000 years of cultural history, introducing audiences to the richness of traditional Japanese art as well as to the work of some of the emerging and leading artists of the present day.
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