THE ART OF LOOKING

A world within a landscape

Slow down. Look closer. Discover the stories, ideas and people behind Chinese art.

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Qian Xuan, Wang Xizhi Watching Geese (detail), c. 1295. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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Flowers & birds01

The quiet presence of a peony

A flower becomes an occasion to look at the spaces around it.

Four Anecdotes from the Life of Wang Xizhi

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Calligraphy02

A line, a pause, a living rhythm

Learning to see calligraphy, even before learning to read it.

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Landscape03

Looking closely: Scholar-Recluse in Blue-Green Landscape

An invitation to spend a little longer with a single work.

A closer look

One brush. A thousand possibilities.

Follow the movement of a line, the pause between strokes, the meeting of ink and paper. An invitation to look at calligraphy anew.

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FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY

Ways into Chinese art

A subject, a gesture, a new perspective. Find your own way in.

Landscape

Worlds made of mountains, water and imagination.

Calligraphy

The expressive life of a line.

Flowers & birds

A closer encounter with the natural world.

ARTPEONY

Chinese art, in good company.

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