July 14, 2021 | Editorial Team
 

The statue of Dai-Butzu (Daibutsu), Bernhard (Benno) Mühlig (1829-1910) after photographs, oil on canvas (grisaille), ca. 1872/73
© MFK, Nicolai Kästner Bildgrößen

 
 
June 29, 2021 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Tutelary Figure
© The Dallas Museum of Art | Texas, USA

Memorial in Stone of Mother and Child
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Funerary Figure | Tau-Tau
© The Dallas Museum of Art | Texas, USA

 
 
June 25, 2021 | Editorial Team
 

Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana
Central Javanese period
ca. late 9th century
Indonesia (Java)
Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
June 22, 2021 | Editorial Team
 

Headdress frontlet
Date: ca. 1820–40
Culture: Tsimshian, Native American
Medium: Wood, abalone shell, pigment, and nails
Accession Number: 2019.456.22
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
June 18, 2021 | Editorial Team
 

Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Shiva Nataraja)
India, Tamil Nadu Chola period, c. 970
Copper alloy
Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.20
Photography by Synthescape, courtesy of Asia Society and American Federation of Arts

 
 
June 15, 2021 | Editorial Team
 
June 11, 2021 | Editorial Team
 

Shanghai Performing Artists
Shanghai, China | Circa 1885
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

 
 
May 30, 2021 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Ceremonial Stone Seat | Osa-Osa Si Sara Mbagi
Left: © de Young Museum FAMSF | California, USA
Right: © The Dallas Museum of Art | Texas, USA

 
 
May 29, 2021 | Reimar Schefold
 

Sacred carving (jaraik). Form inspired by a squatting gibbon. Wood, macaque skull, mother-of-pearl pigment, rattan strips. 177.8 x 143.5 x 30.5 cm. Samalakopa, Taileleu, South Siberut, ca. 1930. The Dallas Museum of Art. The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund. Inc. 2001.265
© The Dallas Museum of Art

 
 
May 27, 2021 | Jesper Kurt-Nielsen