“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

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• 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

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• 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

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• 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

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• 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

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

• 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