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The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes some 64,500 square feet of gallery space to the presentation of Asian Art, including paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculptures, metalwork, ceramics, lacquers, works of decorative art, and textiles from East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayan kingdoms, and Southeast Asia.
- Gallery Projects
The Asian Art department has lent a dozen objects to this...
- Meet the Staff
Kurt Behrendt has been at The Met since 2006. He has curated...
- Focus
Meanwhile, specialists in the Objects Conservation...
- Collection Highlights
The collections of antiquities and works of art range from...
- Recent Acquisitions
He is dressed as a warrior-king in full battle armor with a...
- Recent Publications
Behrendt, Kurt A. “Gandhāran Imagery as Remembered by...
- Profiles
The Museum Archives and the Department of Asian Art launched...
- Meet the Fellows
PhD, Art History, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,...
- Gallery Projects
world’s most comprehensive collections of the paintings, sculptures, tex-tiles, and decorative arts of Asia. In 2015, as the Metropolitan celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Asian Art, it bears reflecting upon how this collection was formed and why such
28 paź 2021 · Ranging from traditional Asian artworks to more contemporary pieces, we have covered some of the amazing Asian artists from China and Japan. These artworks show much development and growth from the earlier ancient Asian artworks.
The Beauty of Old Korean Paintings, originally written in Korean under the subtitle A History and An Appreciation of Traditional Korean Paintings, began as an illustrated lecture by Lee Dongju 이동주 «李東洲» (1917-1997), the eminent Korean author and art historian and Professor Emeritus at the Seoul National University.
This resource for educators contains both a summary of the history of South and Southeast Asia and background information about the major religions of the area—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Islam.
8 sty 2024 · In this article, we will explore a selection of famous Asian artists, who belong to the different diasporic groups in Asia and who have championed some of the most enriching and profound works across painting, photography, sculpture, and performance art.
The shape of Indian art history / Frederick M. Asher -- The East Asian architectural canon in the twenty-first century / Nancy S. Steinhardt -- Changing views of change: the Song-Yuan transition in Chinese painting histories / Jerome Silbergeld -- Negative verisimilitude: the Zen portrait in medieval Japan / Yukio Lippit -- Love, death, and ...
