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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) 

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