3 Oct 2017 - 14 Jan 2018 CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE TEA WARES The preparation of tea in a formal 'ceremony' has been practiced in Japan since the 1400s. This display was one of several events organised at the Ashmolean for the international Arethé Festival, which spotlights the arts of Japanese tea today. Gallery 36
Until 14 January 2018 AKSUM: A LATE ANTIQUE EMPIRE OF FAITH IN AFRICA This display features coins of Aksum, the earliest Christian empire in Africa (Ethiopia), emitted from the late 3rd century to c. 620. Gallery 7
1 Sep - 22 Oct 2017 COLLECTING THE PAST: SCHOLAR'S TASTE IN CHINESE ART This display featured a range of Chinese paintings created by scholar-artists since the 18th century. Khoan & Michael Sullivan Gallery of Chinese Paintings (Gallery 11)
16 Sep - 27 Nov 2016 SENSATION: REMBRANDT'S FIRST PAINTINGS The Senses are the earliest surviving works by the most famous of all Dutch artists, Rembrandt (1606–1669). This was the very first time that the four surviving panel paintings were on show together in public.
18 Mar – 15 May 2016 ELIZABETH PRICE: A RESTORATION Elizabeth Price, winner of the 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award, created a new work in response to the collections and archives of the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums.
9 Jun – 13 Sep 2015 YOSHIDA HIROSHI: A JAPANESE ARTIST IN INDIA An exhibition highlighting Hiroshi Yoshida’s woodblock prints of India.
3 Mar – 31 May 2015 BENGAL AND MODERNITY: EARLY 20TH CENTURY ART IN INDIA An exhibition exploring themes of nationalism and modernism in early 20th-century India.
4 Dec 2014 – 16 Feb 2015 HIROSHIGE'S JAPAN: FIFTY THREE STATIONS OF THE TAIKODO ROAD Explore works by one of the great masters of the Japanese landscape print, Utagawa Hiroshige.
