Asia in the New World

Asia in the New World is a major travelling exhibition being organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). Curated by Dennis Carr, the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, this groundbreaking exhibition will examine the global reach of Asian goods beginning in the sixteenth century and show how the Asia trade profoundly affected artistic production in colonial North, Central, and South America. With approximately 175 examples of furniture, silverwork, textiles, ceramics, and paintings carefully selected from collections across the Americas and Europe, many seen together and in public for the first time, the exhibition will reveal the colonial Americas to be an early crucible for the production of a global artistic culture. Audiences will be presented with exquisite objects produced in such places as Mexico City, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and they will have the opportunity to learn more about the rich cultural heritage of the Americas using multimedia interpretive tools created by MFA curators, educators, and new media specialists.