”Arts of Ancient Vietnam” in New York
“Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea” is on view at the Asia Society Museum, NY until 02 May
In 1988 the art historian Nancy Tingley, then a curator at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, went to Vietnam to talk with museums about borrowing examples of the country’s ancient art for the first major United States exhibition… The show didn’t happen. The diplomatic situation was volatile; negotiating loans proved impossible. The Asian Art Museum dropped out as a sponsor, and even after new ones signed on, the project remained in limbo. But Ms. Tingley stuck with her original plans, and her persistence, 20 years on, has paid off in “Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea” at the Asia Society Museum. Is the show worth the wait? It is. It’s fabulous. Perfectly (meaning modestly) scaled, with the kind of Asian art loans — matchless in quality, straight from the source — that we rarely see here anymore.
‘Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea’ – Ancient Sphere Where Cultures Mingled by Holland Cotter
From Friday, 5 Feb 2010 NYTimes, pg. C25, NYC edition
Please check out the New York Times website to read the rest of the article, and the Asian Society Museum’s official website to learn more about the exhibition.
