Projects

Our digital partnership with the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library include:

Exhibitions

    • Fire and Earth: Early Chinese Pottery from the MacLean Collection

      • Crow Museum of Art, downtown Dallas, September 2025–September 2026

    • The Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps from the MacLean Collection

      • Crow Museum of Art, downtown Dallas, March 2025–September, 2025

    • Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China

      • Museum of Chinese America, New York City, April 2025–March 2026

      • Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library, May–August 2024

    • Re-carving the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes and Jades

      • Lizzadro Museum, Oak Brook, IL, December 2019–January 2021

    • Heritage Museum, Chinatown, Chicago

      • Rats in Chinese Art, February 2020–May 2020

      • Pigs in Chinese Art, March 2019–August 2019

      • Passion for Form, 2019

      • Dragons in Chinese Art, 2018

      • Dogs in Chinese Art, February 2018–May 2018

    • Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps of the 18th and 19th Centuries

      • Hatcher Library, University of Michigan, September 2018–December 2018

      • University of Denver Library, September 2017–December 2017

      • Art Institute of Chicago, June 2016–November 2016

    • Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection

      • University of Michigan Museum of Art, November 2016–April 2017

      • Crow Collection of Asian Art, April 2016–August 2016

    • Asian Art from the MacLean Collection

      • Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, January 2016–February 2016

    • Chicago International Map Fair

      • American Presidents and Politics: Selections from the MacLean Collection, October 2016

      • Mapping Perspectives and Progress: The Evolution of the Bird’s-Eye View, October 2015

      • Celebrating Urban Transformation: 19th Century Maps from the MacLean Collection, October 2014

    • Passion for Form: Selections of Southeast Asian Art from the MacLean Collection

      • Honolulu Academy of Arts, October 2007–January 2008

      • Utah Museum of Fine Arts, June 2007–September 2007

    • Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures

      • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 2024–March 2025

    • New Korean Galleries

      • Art Institute of Chicago, Ongoing

    • Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures

      • LACMA, October 2024–March 2025

    • Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China

      • Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library, May 2024–August 2024

    • Wisconsin Historical Society

      • Geneva Lake Museum, May 2019

    • America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century

      • Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, May 2019–May 2020

    • Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors, Scholars and their Bronzes

      • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 2018–May 2018

    • West Mexico: Ritual and Identity

      • Gilcrease Museum, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 2016–November 2016

    • Arts of Korea

      • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 2010–February 2011

    • Eternal Presence: Handprints and Footprints in Buddhist Art

      • Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah New York, October 2004–January 2005

      • Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 2005–May 2005

      • Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, June 2005–September 2005

Publications