The Safavid dynasty (defined by the Sackler as 1501-1722), which takes its name from the Safavid order of Sufism, saw a flowering of art, culture and architecture, particularly under its most ...

Positioned on Independence Avenue by the National Mall, the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery feature world-renowned American and Asian art collections. Unlike more ...

The Freer and Sackler galleries have one of the most celebrated collections of arts from the Islamic world in the U.S. They have presented other major exhibitions featuring important religious objects ...

The adjacent Arthur M. Sackler Gallery — which closed in July for less major changes — reopens with four new temporary exhibits, including “Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across ...

The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art, are home to the only program in the U.S. that teaches conservators how to care for delicate and ...

Lonnie Bunch, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, has sent a letter saying the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art cannot change its name. Photo by Earl Gibson III/Getty Images. Taylor Dafoe ...

The Smithsonian, which has a gallery named after donor Arthur M. Sackler, released a statement in February noting that the gallery opened in 1987 -- the same year of his death, and "eight years ...

FILE – Exterior of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in Hyde Park, London, July 21, 2019. The British Museum will remove the Sackler name from galleries, rooms and endowments following global ...

Sackler Contemporary: Subodh Gupta opens October 14 in the pavilion at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. and runs through June 24, 2018. TEDxDelhi - Subodh Gupta.

The Met’s decision might also convince some of the holdouts who still bear the Sackler name — the Guggenheim, Yale, Oxford and the National Gallery in London among them — to take it down.

In addition to the Sackler Wing, the museum’s display of ancient Near Eastern art has had the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery for Assyrian Art and the Richard and Jonathan Sackler Study ...