NYC's Landmark ‘Lost Kingdoms’ Show Gets Warm Reception World-Wide
THE IRRAWADDY
NEW YORK---The landmark exhibition “Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century,” which includes treasures from the Pyu civilization in Burma, has been earning accolades since it opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last month. “It will be hard to cap this: it may well be the exhibition of the year,” wrote Louise Nicholson in Apollo, one of the world’s leading international art magazines, based in London. The Wall Street Journal called the exhibition, which collects together for the first time some of the finest sculptural art of the region, a “monumental show in about every sense of the word.”[link]
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| The sandstone Khin Ba Relic Chamber Cover from central Burma. (Photo: Thierry Ollivier / Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
