From the NY Times: Savor Southeast Asian Art: "Gathering of Gods from Places Long Forgotten"
(The April 12 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/arts/design/in-lost-kingdoms-national-treasures-from-asian-countries.html?ref=hinduism
It’s a show about faith, or faiths, that may initially need to be taken on faith by Met visitors for whom religious art from Southeast Asia is an unknown quantity. So let me offer a few belief-building facts: Most of its 160 sculptures, monumental and minute, are national treasures in an unprecedented transmigration from Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Myanmar, formerly Burma, whose antiquities have never traveled, signed a first-ever international loan agreement for the occasion and sent a king’s ransom in material.
(The April 12 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/arts/design/in-lost-kingdoms-national-treasures-from-asian-countries.html?ref=hinduism
It’s a show about faith, or faiths, that may initially need to be taken on faith by Met visitors for whom religious art from Southeast Asia is an unknown quantity. So let me offer a few belief-building facts: Most of its 160 sculptures, monumental and minute, are national treasures in an unprecedented transmigration from Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Myanmar, formerly Burma, whose antiquities have never traveled, signed a first-ever international loan agreement for the occasion and sent a king’s ransom in material.
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