"Gold On Black: Japanese Lacquer from the Jacqueline Avant Collection3.2.13 - 9.15.13Lacquerware, inlaid with tiny flakes of gold, silver, and mother of pearl, was one of the highest forms of art among aristocratic Japanese families; it [???] China: Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-18722.16.13 - 5.5.13mperial China captured on glass plates by the Scottish photographer John Thomson, who first t" . . . .