Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
March 24–August 17, 2025

Imported Chinese porcelain was a major element in chinoiserie, an 18th-century decorative arts style that presented East Asia, and East Asian women, as fantasy objects. Displaying some 200 historical and contemporary works by Asian and Asian American artists, this show reexamines chinoiserie through a feminist lens, offering critiques of exoticism and cultural stereotypes.