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U.S. Transported by the U.S. Navy, the exhibit opened two months ago at the University of Indiana, which has a thriving teacher and student exchange program with Thailand. When it leaves the Met in February, the show will go on to Boston, Toledo, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Honolulu...
Last week, under the guidance of Prince Subha-dradis Diskul, curator of the National Museum in Bangkok, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum was setting up the first major exhibition of the art of Thailand ever to come to the
Rings & Reminders. Some of the art is newly excavated-and was barely saved from vandals. Two years ago, the government learned that a gang of thieves had been looting a 15th century crypt at the former Thailand capital of Ayudhya. The thieves had already melted down about 40% of the...
But the dominant theme of the exhibit is Buddha, for the art of Thailand grew out of a yearning for new ways to worship him. After Buddha died in the 5th century B.C., his bodily relics were divided and divided again, but there were never enough to supply all the...
Tree into Body. The earliest tablets showed only symbols of the sage: his footprint on a mountainside, the great Bo tree, or the wheel. Gradually, the footprints grew into feet, the tree into a body. The artists never used a human model. Instead, each artist studied existing statues or paintings...