There are commutes, trips, travels, tours, and jaunts, all of which get us from one place to another in reasonable shape and with memories fraught or pleasant. But somehow a journey, no matter how long or short, implies something more, something substantial and maybe even transformational. In East Asia, a perfect format for artistic journeying is the handscroll, with landscapes or narratives unrolling before our eyes. Three wonderful examples are on view in this iteration of Five Tables: Wang Wen’s sixteenth-century The Eighteen Arhats Crossing the Sea; the seventeenth-century Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang by Kano Yasunobu; and Michael Cherney’s atmospheric, photographic Yuezhou (Procession of Ships) from 2013–14.

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