The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is the exclusive North American presentation venue of 35 extraordinary 6th-century Chinese Buddhist statues that were accidentally unearthed in 1996 by construction workers. Jan Stuart, Assistant Curator of Chinese Art, provided background on the statues and the importance of their discovery, and how they have significantly advanced scholarship of Chinese Buddhist art and renewed popular interest in Buddhist sculpture. Afterward, there was a tour of the exhibit which, since it did not consist of Smithsonian-owned objects, did not allow photography.
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