Oink! Giving the pig its due
byCurator Zhixin Jason Sun walks WAG through The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Celebrating the Year of the Pig.”
Han Dynasty
Dynasties and dust: The Met’s new ‘Age of Empires’
byWAG’s resident Sinologist, Audrey Ronning Topping, considers the ruthless magnificence of the Qin and Han Dynasties – and the fleeting nature of empire – in a new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit.
The year of the horse
byThis flying horse was discovered in a Han Dynasty tomb (212 B.C.) in 1972. Inset, Chinese paper-cut horses copied from the paintings of the…