The museum’s fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were looted from a tomb in Hunan Province and smuggled into the US ...

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery combine to comprise the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. Opened in 1923, the Freer Gallery showcases American paintings from the ...

Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States in the ...

A proposed multi-state settlement with Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family does not come close to providing the accountability or paying for the damage caused by the opioid crisis, writes ...

Greek intellectuals in the ancient library of Alexandria made a profound contribution to science and several other ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

In the 1980s, he hoped to donate it to the new Sackler Museum at Peking University, but passed away before the museum opened. Following Dr. Sackler's death in 1987, the manuscript was placed in ...

In the 1980s, he hoped to donate it to the new Sackler Museum at Peking University, but passed away before the museum opened. Following Dr. Sackler's death in 1987, the manuscript was placed in the ...

Sackler Gallery, SI In 1984, curator Ann Yonemura purchased a ceremonial palanquin—a form of transport favored by warlords in 19th-century Japan—for the then yet-to-be-opened Sackler Gallery ...

The Smithsonian’s Freer/Sackler Museum has opened a stunning exhibition that showcases the Empresses of China’s long-lived Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced today ...