Wall Street Journal reviews - Asian and islamic art

2023 - 2021

• Making Pots, Building Bridges
• Arts of Asia and the Islamic world once again on view in Brooklyn
• In the Eyes of the Gods
• Designs that Import Inspiration - Cartier and Islamic Art
• Creativity and Censorship - 'The Subplot' 
• Zen that Surprises
• Beauty in the Ugliness of Strange Stones
• The Fabric of a Dynasty
• Pivoting Our View of a Sculpture  
•  A Broad-Brush Idea of Tradition
•  Upgraded and expanded Asian Art Museum, SF  
•  Meditations on Suffering and Being 
•  Retelling the Story of a Subcontinent  
•  Clothes as Canvas: The Kimono in Print     
•  The Math Behind Mesmerizing Islamic Patterns   
•  Sanskrit Epics Animated in Stone   I

2020 - 2017

•  'Hands & Earth:' A Kiln-Fired Culture   
• Abroad at Home: Into the Worlds of Islamic Architecture.  
• The Staying Inside Guide: Chinese landscape painting
• The Staying Inside Guide: Chinese calligraphy 
• Searching for the truth about Qiy Ying, a revered Ming master 
• Meaningful cultural conversations at the Seattle Asian Art Museum  
• The dynamism and artistry of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi  
• A 12th-century bodhisattva from Korea poised between worlds  
• Eternal Feast - three paintings speak volumes.

• Re-exploring a Continent - China and Japan at the Brooklyn Museum  
• Prosperity Comes in Many Forms - Lakshmi/Kichijoten.  . 
• Global Trade Made Gorgeous
• Connecting Man to the Mythic - the divine in Chinese art
• The art and history of Korean writing
• Getting to know the kami of Shinto    
• The Tale of Genji in Japanese art    
• Tibetan art reflecting empire as much as faith
• Art eliciting and depicting devotion
• Reclaiming a creative history for Sri Lanka

• Votive objects as agents of faith
• The world of the Qing Empresses
• Wang Hui's vision of the Yangzi river
• Tales from India come to life in paintings
• Unexpected Smiles from Edo period art
• The Transformation of Hasegawa Tohaku
• The Very Fabric of Asian Societies
• Courting Opulence in India: Treasures from Jodhpur
• Magnificent Metal: the allure of ancient Chinese bronzes 
• Climbing to New Peaks of Creativity in Korean and Chinese art 
• The Ardabil carpet: A 16th-century masterpiece 
• Meiji metalwork: Creativity forged anew
• Evolution of a Deity: Ganesha at the Denver Museum of Art 

• Dreams of Kings at the Nelson-Atkins Museum
•  A rare peek at the creative processes of ukiyo-e masters
• Chen Hongshou in the spotlight in Berkeley
• Korean art reinstalled at the Brooklyn Museum
• Masterpiece essay on a bodhisattva made around 1200 
• Chaekgeori -- painted screens Korean style
• Bernard Berenson’s Brief Detour - Persian paintings
• Finding Meaning in Scraps - bapo painting
• Come to See the Sound at the Rubin
• Dallas Museum of Art gives Keir collection pride of place 
• Whose Painting is it Anyway? Utamaro’s?                                                                   
• Treasures of Qin and Han nation-building at the Met
• Big stories in small things in Show Me the Mini
• Unearthing the past in a show about Han China
• Utamaro's wall-sized painting at the Wadsworth (non-subscribers use this pdf)                      

2016 - 2014

• The art of the Quran at the Sackler 
• China’s Six Dynasties: beauty born in turbulence
• Paintings and stories from Mughal courts
• Unlocking the secrets of a 6th-century Buddha
• A taste of the marvel that are the Dunhuang caves
• Nepalese art seen through the monsoon lens
• The Ringling’s newest act: an Asian Art Center 
• Seljuq splendors at the Met
• Delving into the meanings of a Chola Nataraja 
• The Cartography of Conversion - maps by Jesuit missionaries in China
• Peeking inside artists’ minds with drawings from Indian courts
• In the Met’s Chinese galleries with An Ho
• Enlivened sculptures from Japan’s Kamakura period 
• Everywhen: Contemporary indigenous art from Australia
• Gifts transform Mia’s Japanese collection
• Sotatsu making waves around the world
• The synergies shaped art in three Islamic courts

 

• Rare chance to see all 48 paintings of a Shahnameh 
• Philippine gold made in long forgotten kingdoms
• The Keir collection of Islamic art’s first showing in US
• Asian-inspired works from the colonial Americas
• Stroll and scroll Japanese gardens
• How America acquired a taste for Japanese art 
• Honoring Nepal after its devastating earthquake 
• Gilded splendors of a long-lived school of painting 
• A rich sampling of Buddhist art from Myanmar 
• Shin-hanga prints by Hasui - magic of twilight
• Explorations in southern Arabia 
• The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto   

   

• Jewels from, for and inspired by India 
• Chinese albums: real page-turn
• Powerful art from East of the Wallace Line
• Masterful ancient Chinese bronzes
• The diversity of Edo period painting
• Celebrating 1000 years of Persian books
• Exploring Song dynasty painting
• The arts of health and illness in Tibet
• Nur -- Light in Islamic arts and sciences 
• Wondrous pieces from ancient kingdoms in Southeast Asia
• Continuity and change in Joseon dynasty art
• Imagining glowing Tibetan Buddhist stupas from fragments
• Keir collection of Islamic art boosts Dallas Museum offerings 
• Asian wing caps museum expansion in Cleveland
• Empowering images

                                                               

2013 - 2011

• New works seen through the lens of past
• The Shahnameh’s enduring political power
• Yoga: a constellation of beliefs, practices and art
• Court art of the Joseon dynasty
• Shining the light on beautiful Silla art
• Women in Chinese painting
• Early globalization as seen through textiles

• A treasure trove of Chinese art at the ROM
• An Indo-Persian garden in Yonkers - who knew?
• The photography of Raja Deen Dayal
• The making - and unmaking - of a sand mandala
• Dressed to kill in peacetime - ah, those Samurai!
• The enigma of a Rubens drawing
• Chinese painting - professional and scholar artists
• Flights of feathered fancy in Japanese art
• Exploring Indo-Pacific art at Yale
• Islamic art in Paris

• Chinese calligraphy / Nepalese art
• Amazing works emerge from beneath Arabian desert
• Rinpa: Art with a twist
• Masterpiece: Churning of the Sea of Milk
• Many forms and modes of viewing 
• Looking at China 100 years ago and today
• Indian artists and modernism
• Two shows, two perspectives on Chinese art
• Printing began in China--a most useful invention
• Woven silks from a Nishijin workshop in Kyoto
• Asian art gains prominence at the Harn Museum
• Insights into and through 13th-century Chinese tombs
• Vietnamese ceramics at the Birmingham Museum of Art
• Creating beauty under -- or for? -- Communism
• Tibet in the world of comic books
  

2012 - 2006

• Boston’s MFA rethinks South and Southeast Asia
• Met's new Islamic galleries make a powerful statement
• Offering an alternative experience of art
• Mughal masters artists rescued from anonymity
• Tang burial figure puzzles - and delights
• Glass art, design and technique criss-cross the globe
• Vishnu in all his glory at the Brooklyn Museum 
• Reinstalled Tibetan galleries at Newark Museum
• Reconstructing 6th-century caves virtually
• American brings Asian composers home
• Felice Beato photography: truth, beauty, fiction
• Lucknow’s exuberant art scene 
• Cloisonné: from the boudoir to the scholar’s desk 
• Talking back to old masters

• Drawn to Enlightenment - a show of Hakuin’s work
• San Diego adopts a new approach to the display of Indian art 
• Lacquer -- real and fake -- at the Newark Museum
• Yokohama prints: how Japanese pictured Europeans in the 1860s
• An impressionistic journey to an Imperial Chinese garden
• Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan art on Staten Island, NY
• Jean Claude White, an unusual colonial photographer in Sikkim and Bhutan 
• A show looks at the first official 
• Japanese delegation to NY in 1860
• Religious art in museums - an interesting approach in DC
• Fantastic bronzes from Angkor
• Buddhist pilgrimage and the art it generates
• Archaeology sure has changed since World War I
• ‘tis human to ask how the universe began -- and to answer with art 
• Ancient art from Vietnam   
• Treasures Ottoman and Iranian diplomats presented to the Kremlin
• The beauty of Japanese screens brings you to your knees
• Bling gets the better of Ming in a show of court arts
• Korea’s Joseon dynasty produced a renaissance of art
• American modern artists looked as much to Asia as they did to Europe
• Rajasthani art that soars from the worldly to the divine
• Japanese glass artists at the cutting edge (pdf file)
• Portraits dominate -- and puzzle -- in a show of Mughal miniatures
• London’s Durga Debate  (13-15 Oct 2006) (pdf file)
• Did the Chinese discover North America? Really? (pdf file) (4-6 Aug 2006)
• The intricate dynamics of portraiture in Asia (1 Aug 2006)
• Hokusai’s Divine State  (24-26 March 2006)
• He Gave Art Another Dimension: Nam June Paik

2005 - 1993

• Showcasing a Region’s Art as Never Before 
• A Tutorial on Success at the Smithsonian  
• Objects of Enlightenment -- Controversy  
• Their Own Private Vishnus  -- Chola bronzes at the Sackler 
• Intimate Indian Miniatures 
• Tao Art: Cosmic Energy, Sympathy with Fish  
• In Atlanta, a Chinese painter carries on the scholar-artist tradition  (An Ho - ProQuest.pdf)   
• The Fine Art of Writing 
• Tibetan Art of Wisdom and Compassion  (16 Sept 1999)
• Sharing the Mysteries of Mustang    (12-13 Feb 1998)
• CC Wang’s Painting Obsession Enriches New York  (18 -19 July 1997)
• A Japanese Way of Golf  -- golf and art restoration   (1-2 March 1996)
• Basket Beatitude -- Hiroshima Kazuo’s work at the Sackler (27-28 Jan, 1995)
• A Banquet of Landscapes and Cultures --   Lois Conner photography (19-20 Aug, 1994)
• New South Asian galleries at the Met   (13-14 May, 1994)
• Ceramic Convergence  -- review of modern Japanese works at the Japan Society  (18-19 March, 1994)
• Putting Sri Lanka on the Map - With Sculpture   (March 26-17, 1993 and AWSJ 20 May 1993)