PAST EXHIBITIONS

PAST FREE EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS

Thoughts after storm, Lui Shou-Kwan, 1961
Until 7 Apr 2019

LUI SHOU-KWAN CENTENARY EXHIBITION

Lui Shou-kwan was one of the most significant artists in Hong Kong during the mid-twentieth century. The paintings in this exhibition marking the anniversary of his birth are from the Ashmolean’s own collection.
Gallery 11
tea wares free display
Until 16 Dec 2018

THE ART OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE TEA

Celebrate the art of the Japanese tea ceremony through this unique display of contemporary Japanese tea utensils that is part of the AREThé Festival 2018.
Gallery 36
surinomo free display
Until 17 Mar 2019

PLUM BLOSSOM AND GREEN WILLOW: SURIMONO POETRY PRINTS

Some of the finest examples of Japanese printmaking in the early nineteenth century were the exquisitely printed woodblock prints called surimono. These privately published prints combined witty poems with elegant images by leading designers.
Gallery 29
Bust of Antinous
Until 24 Feb 2019

ANTINOUS: BOY MADE GOD

Antinous was a boy-favourite of the Emperor Hadrian. He drowned in the Nile in A.D. 130, and the emperor founded a city in middle Egypt in his honour called Antinoopolis or ‘Antinous City’.
Gallery 8
No Offence Exhibition – Fragment of a tomb painting, Etruscan, about 490 BC
Until 2 December 2018

NO OFFENCE: EXPLORING LGBTQ+ HISTORIES

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, this British Museum touring exhibition explores the ways same-sex desire, love and gender diversity have been expressed culturally throughout history and across cultures.
Gallery 8
damien hirst the severed head of medusa 2013 web wide
Until 1 February 2019

THE SEVERED HEAD OF MEDUSA, 2013

See Damien Hirst's sculpture on display in the Greek World Gallery, juxtaposed with a Medusa terracotta tile from c. 540 BC
Gallery 16
Money and Magic
Until 16 December 2018

TRICKS OF TRADE: MONEY AND MAGIC IN CONTEXT

Money can be ‘magical’ in more ways than one – it multiplies, it grows and it can buy happiness and bring forth plenitude.
Gallery 7
a century of women in chinese art
01 May - 14 Oct 2018

A CENTURY OF WOMEN IN CHINESE ART

A diverse selection of representations of women in Chinese art over the past 100 years.
Gallery 11
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