White Wall Review: Yin Yu Tang and the PEM gang
Peabody Essex Museum
https://www.pem.org/
East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970.
Open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-5 pm. Closed Mondays (except holidays).
The museum will be open the following holidays:
Monday, May 27, 2019 Memorial Day
Thursday, July 4, 2019 Independence Day
Monday, September 2, 2019 Labor Day
Monday, October 14, 2019 Columbus Day
Monday, November 11, 2019 Veterans' Day
Closed: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
Adults $20, seniors (65 and over) $18, students (with ID) $12, Youth (16 and under) and Salem, Mass. residents (with ID) admitted free*. (*Does not apply to youth in student/tour groups.) For late nights, $15 after 5 pm.
PEM is pleased to participate in the EBT Card to Culture program, which provides free admission for two to EBT cardholders from Massachusetts; All active-duty, National Guard, and Reserve military personnel receive year-round complimentary general admission.
Yin Yu Tang
$6 (plus museum admission). Salem residents, museum members, and youth 16 and under FREE. Same-day timed tickets to Yin Yu Tang may be purchased at the admissions desk.
During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), a prosperous merchant surnamed Huang built a stately sixteen-bedroom house in China’s southeastern Huizhou region, calling his home Yin Yu Tang.
Among the many literary interpretations of this name is the desire for the home to shelter generations of descendants. Yin Yu Tang was home to the Huang family for more than two hundred years until 1982 when the last descendants moved from the village.
The home was oriented in the village according to principles of feng shui to ensure a harmonious relationship with the landscape and was constructed according to local building traditions and customs. Coins were placed under structural columns to bring prosperity to the home’s inhabitants.
https://www.pem.org/visit/yin-yu-tang
EXHIBITION: Double Happiness: Celebration in Chinese Art
On view April 5, 2014 to January 3, 2021
Come and experience the liveliness of a drinking party, the opulence of a royal wedding and poetic evocation of spring on a delicate dish. With more than 30 highlights from the museum's wide-ranging Chinese collection spanning 3,000 years, this exhibition celebrates China's artistic achievements crystallized in seasonal festivals, religious ceremonies and celebrations. Discover plants and animals, myths and symbols and decipher the Chinese character for "Double Happiness."
https://www.pem.org/exhibitions/double-happiness-celebration-in-chinese-art
EXHIBITION: MegaCity: India's Culture of the Streets
On view August 1, 2015 to June 28, 2020
In the early 20th century, Indian artists viewed the village as the true locus for India's identity, distinct from that of the British colonial cities of Calcutta, Bombay and New Delhi. By mid-century, India had gained independence and its cities were replenished with all kinds of people fulfilling their dreams. In the cities, the drive toward modernity co-existed with the enduring presence of the spiritual in unexpected ways.
This installation includes paintings from PEM's Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection. Images of confrontation, hope, fracture and change traverse shifting grounds rich with contradictions.
https://www.pem.org/exhibitions/megacity-indias-culture-of-the-streets
EXHIBITION: Japanomania! Japanese Art Goes Global
On view March 31, 2018 to January 3, 2021
Discover the beauty and complex stories behind PEM’s celebrated Japanese export art collection. The new installation takes visitors on a journey through time — from the arrival of Portuguese merchants in the 1500s through Japan’s emergence on the world stage in the late 19th century and beyond. Throughout, the story is punctuated with stunning works of art, including extraordinary loans from a private collection and many objects on view for the first time since PEM’s 2016 exhibition Asia in Amsterdam.
Japanomania! Japanese Art Goes Global is made possible by the generous support of an anonymous donor, the late Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland and The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund.
https://www.pem.org/exhibitions/japanomania-japanese-art-goes-global