In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Holland Cotter

In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ sandstone throne stele from central Myanmar, from around the fourth century

NEW YORK---When the Metropolitan Museum of Art gives its all to an exhibition in terms of space, money and scholarship, and the art involved is as rich as a massed chorale and as haunting as a single-voice chant, no institution on earth can produce more impressive results. Such is the case with “Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century,” which opens on Monday. It’s a show about faith, or faiths, that may initially need to be taken on faith by Met visitors for whom religious art from Southeast Asia is an unknown quantity. [link]