Until 2 April 2018 FROM DRAWING TO PAINTING IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE A display in conjunction with the University of Oxford's Slade art history lecture series which explores how Italian artists produced whole sequences of preparatory drawings to hone the form and content of their major works. Gallery 8
7 Nov 2017 - 15 Apr 2018 QU LEILEI: A CHINESE ARTIST IN BRITAIN This exhibition featured ink paintings created by Qu Leilei from 1985, when he moved to the UK to study here, to the present, with a focus on light and shadow. Khoan & Michael Sullivan Gallery of Chinese Paintings (11)
15 Oct 2017 - 18 March 2018 OLD TRADITIONS, NEW VISIONS: ART IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN AFTER 1947 After the political freedom gained in 1947, Indian and Pakistani artists faced a significant challenge to express the new nations’ distinctive character and visions. Gallery 29
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.
