“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• Christie’s sets record with Asia art sales
• Passion drives rough diamond (Ling Yaqian)
• Meet Tibetan artist Karma Phuntsok
• Sudarshan Pattnaik’s global warming sand sculpture wins prize
• The Contemporary Tea House: Japan’s Top Architects Redefine a Tradition
• Iranian Cinema
• Balinese artist Ketut Budiana’s Dance of the Witches

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• Asian antiquities expert arrested
• and then Indicted museum director found dead at WA federal prison
• China’s eccentric champion
• Xu Bing: creating English words from Chinese pictograms
• Ratana Pestonji: The father of contemporary Thai cinema

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• Beijing sculptor Zhan Wang steels the scene
• ‘Free Tibet’ flags made in China
• AsianWeek on the AAM’s Ming show
• Walking cabbages around Manchester
• Rin Nadeshico’s girls cozy up with giant beasts

The image below, from BBC News, was taken in Allahabad, India, where temperatures have been around 44 degrees Celsius.

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•  Indonesia’s contemporary painters ride a market bubble
• Chris Miller on Toshiko Takaezu
• A Chinese surrealist goes for the gold in SoCal, becomes a great commercial success — at what cost?
• From the Land of the Gods, an exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art
• On Pico Iyer on the 14th Dalai Lama
• Showcasing Indian art on sand
• The visual translation of Japan in late 19th-century Paris
• Rare maps of South Asia
• Elephants as painters

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• Cai Guo-Qiang’s Boom Year
• Gallery for contemporary Thai art opens in Brussels
• Photographing Life in Traditional Korean Architecture
• William Morris and Japan
• Hindu temples being built in Berlin
• Carnival in Goa
• Imaging Everest
• Qi Baishi’s descendants sue 24 publishers for copyright infringement
• Asian art by way of Blondie

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• Modern art’s L.A. ‘Seed’
• Samurai dog armor
• Metropolitan Museum Exhibits Chinese Paintings
• Wheel of Deluded Existence, or The Wheel of Life
• Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)
• Origami planes to be launched into outer space

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• Harn Museum announces $10 million gift, addition of Asian art wing
• Wear it like the Koreans
• Ainu Rebels
• Nobuo Takahashi’s animated landscapes
• Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice
• Beijing’s Olympic architecture
• Welcome the Year of the Rat
• History of Chinese Calligraphy

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• Introduction to Asian Art (nice middle school class site)
• The Hindu : Magazine / Culture : Classical art goes global
• With stocks in turmoil, Asian art draws buyers
• Authorities raid California museums
• Rodents in art
• 2008 in Indian art
• Vintage 1920s Japanese bookmarks by Junichi Nakahara
• Green dogs invade Indonesia

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• Chinese Literature Online
• Dekochari: Japanese art bikes (video)
• Buddhist mud fort unearthed
• Gods & Monsters: Chinese shadow theater exhibit in New York
• Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Met’s permanent collection
• Grammar of Moorish, Persian, and Indian Ornament
• The focus of the smuggling investigation

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• Trendy Japanese Buddhism
• A profile of Koji Kamada
• Colossal canvas, cosmic concepts
• Bhutan in the New York Times
• Toon time in Bollywood
• Wayang and Topeng

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• Hidden treasures from Afghanistan
• Tales of Hanuman
• Thai sand sculptures
• An underwater museum
• The Buddha’s footprint

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• A battle of feng shui
• A model professor
• UC Irvine offers course in manga
• “Siam” campaign

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• An accomplished Chinese Arabic calligrapher
• Ancient Buddhist seals found in Bangladesh
• Ask a monk
• Next Dalai Lama could be a woman
• Priests prune enlightenment tree for souvenirs

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• Top 60 Japanese buzzwords of 2007
• Art expert on the run
• Burglars bag Buddhas
• USF to honor protesting Burmese monks
• Searching for the origins of Buddhism
• Hmong and Lao writers
• Buddha in a cage
• Himalayan woman proposes getting cozy with Sarkozy
• A beauty contestant’s political protest

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• Himalayan art resources
• Record sales for Asian art
• Growing demand for contemporarySoutheast Asian art
• $9.5 million paintings made from gunpowder
• Japan Envisions the West, part 2
• Appreciating Rei Kawakubo
• Lunchbox art
• India’s pink vigilante women

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• The Asian art market is booming in Houston
• Contemporary art from Asia is hot
• Jian Rong: From shepherd to literary star
• Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute
• Reclaiming Asian creativity