Asian Art
More than 35,000 works spanning 6,000 years of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South and Southeast Asian, and Central Asian art.
Six thousand years, where the brush never lost its authority.
n calligraphy, in painting, in the woodblock print, the line drawn in ink held a prestige across Asia that the West reserved for oil on canvas. It sustained traditions that ran continuously for millennia, rather than lurching between revolutions.
It is all, finally, ink on paper — and that one medium carries a monk's devotion and a city's cheap entertainment with equal seriousness. Unroll a Chinese hand-scroll like time itself, stand under Hokusai's wave, then walk Hiroshige's rain-streaked roads.
