by AoASubscriptionManager | May 1, 2015 | Editorial
Museum director Thomas P. Campbell announcing generous donations to The Metropolitan Museum of Art during the Asia Week New York 2015 reception ASIA WEEK New York 2015 was a wonderful opportunity to view stunning works of art and meet new and old friends at parties,...
by AoASubscriptionManager | Mar 1, 2015 | Editorial
IT IS A GREAT privilege to present in this issue four articles relating to the “Buddhist Art of Myanmar” exhibition being held at Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, New York) from February 10th to May 10th, 2015. This important exhibition, comprising approximately seventy...
by AoASubscriptionManager | Jan 1, 2015 | Editorial
Dame Jillian Sackler, whose late husband, Dr Arthur M. Sackler, collected the Buddhist stone sculptures now held in Columbia University’s Sackler Collection, with Museum Director Dr Karl Willers and Amy G. Poster, co-curator of “China Then and Now” at the Nassau...
by AoASubscriptionManager | Nov 1, 2014 | Editorial
Guests looking at exhibits of silk robes with coiled dragon decoration and pleated waist. “Ming: 50 years that changed China” runs until January 5th, 2015 at the British Museum FOR THIS November–December 2014 issue, Arts of Asia has commissioned eight informative and...
by AoASubscriptionManager | Sep 1, 2014 | Editorial
Tampan Pasisir ritual cloth, Lampung, South Sumatra, cotton, silk, supplementary weft, 18th/19th century. Thomas Murray described the textile as “a possible cosmological diagram of a maritime people, fish below a great ship with giant birds and heroic ancestors...
