Art Review | 'Excellence and Elegance': The Art of Control in a Manchu Box
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The consummate ambition that Chinese artists brought to diminutive scale is a striking feature of the Metropolitan Museumâs small late-summer show.
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The Metropolitan Museum's show of ancient Chinese art is not of a trophy display of objects found but that of a meticulously edited essay on history learned.
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Staged photographs produce some class acts
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The show, which weaves like a DNA strand through the Metropolitan Museumâs Chinese galleries, has the casual logic of a household photo album, with evidence of shared habits, tastes and temperaments, and of rapport between generations.
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âItâs an improvement on an already stellar computer,â says Katherine Boehret (The Wall Street Journal), referring to the new iMac. âThe keyboard is radical-looking. Itâs much flatter and sleeker than typical desktop PC keyboards. I found it easier to type with.â Boehret goes on to explore iLife â08, âI quickly picked up on how to use the new features in iPhoto and iMovie, thanks to unintimidating, self-explanatory icons.â She continues, âMy video camera was instantly recognized when I plugged it into the iMacâ and âin just about 15 minutes, I created a short movie.â Boehret concludes, âThe new programs in iLife â08 are a pleasure to use, and the new iMac is a great way to experience them.â
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Ronald K. Brownâs repertory program is something of a primer to his magnificently textured style.
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The Metropolitan Museum's in-depth examination of the colonial art of the Andes has resulted in a sumptuous, groundbreaking show.
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Arts & entertainment: Hiroshige's prints of 19th-century Japan conjure up an impossibly tranquil world but don't be fooled
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Wu Hsing-kuoâs remarkable one-man âKing Lear,â which the Lincoln Center Festival presented on Thursday, expanded codified Chinese opera style to include Buddhist chant, contemporary music and electronics, and Western elements â beyond Shakespeareâs play itself, of course.
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Reviews of the Alexander Wang, Alice Roi, Bruce, Duckie Brown, John Bartlett and Karen Walker fall 2007 collections.
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Archeologists excavate a magnificent army of life-size statues, exact in detail and assembled to protect China's powerful emperor.
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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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South Asian art is a hard sell here. Does it come across as too sexy, too spiritual, too naturalistic, too all of these?  Asia Society smooths over the issue by offering a something-for-everyone array.
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Richard Prince blurs the distinctions between life and art, truth and fiction, and even automaking and sculpture.
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The Portland Museum of Art provides an engrossingly detailed picture of how Mr. Wright achieved his vision, with many examples of his furniture, plans, drawings and publications.
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Christopher Conte turns machined metal, faux bone and vintage machinery into bizarrely beautiful works of biomechanical art.