From Asia to the World: Ancient to Contemporary Art celebrates more than one hundred years of collecting and exhibiting Asian art at the Toledo Museum of Art, featuring superb examples from the ancient period to the present. Sculptures of Buddhist and Hindu deities embody sophisticated ideas and philosophies, and blue-and white-porcelain, celadon, and enamel ceramics from China, Korea, and Japan highlight trade between Asia, Latin America, and Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Works by contemporary artists engage these histories as well as current political and social conditions.
From Asia to the World: Ancient to Contemporary Art
Overview
Highlighted Works
Artist Highlight: Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong is the author of the novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner of an American Book Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. The novel spent six weeks on the New York Times best seller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages.
Ocean Vuong: Sống is published in conjunction with the gallery display From Asia to the World: Ancient to Contemporary Art, exclusively at the Toledo Museum of Art, April 20, 2024–June 29, 2025.
Related Events
View All- October 12
- 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Ocean Vuong Conversation: Online
Sign up to view this conversation online, real time via Zoom.
- October 12
- 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
- October 12
- 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Ocean Vuong in Conversation: Recording
Membership
Become a TMA member today
Support TMA
Help support the TMA mission