The museum devotes an exhibition to an often overlooked era of Chinese bronzes, emphasizing both the artistic and political stakes of producing these astonishing works.

"One of the most distinctive features of Chinese bronze craftsmanship is the use of piece-mold casting. Unlike Western traditions, which relied on forging and lost-wax casting, ancient Chinese ...

Photo taken on March 5, 2025 shows ancient Chinese bronze vessels on display during a press preview of an exhibition titled Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute ...

In 1968, when Rawson joined the British Museum, she was tasked with cataloging probably thousands of ceramics and jades from ...

The exhibition Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art at Manhattan’s China Institute Gallery showcases one of the world’s greatest collections of ...

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Bronze vessels were emblems of power and ritual in ancient China, and from the 1100s-1900s, the art form was revisited by artists and imitated with more modern perspectives.

How often do you dine with the dead? It may seem a strange question, but if you're Chinese it may not be quite so surprising, because many Chinese, even today, believe that deceased family members ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, brought a collection of ancient Chinese bronzes to the China Institute ... They made a wide range of bronze vessels to acknowledge ...

Rich families in Shang China would hold banquets in their family’s ancestral temple, to entertain and ask for help from the spirits of their ancestors. They would use music and dance, as well as ...