Asian Arts
Searching for Materials in the Library catalog
There are several ways to search the Library's catalog for materials; however you might want to use the Subject Headings Art, Southeast Asia--20th Century or Art, Southeast Asia--21st Century for the best results.
Events
Season of Cambodia will bring more than 125 artists from Cambodia to New York City for a major celebration of Camnodian arts, culture, and humanities.
Buddhist Art of Myanmar at the Asia Society
Selected Titles
Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnam/ Nora A. Taylor, University of Hawaii Press, 2004 Hayden stacks ND 1014 .T39 2004
Masterpiece : Southeast Asian modern & contemporary art/.Singapore : Masterpiece Global Auction, [2008] N8605.S552 M37 2008
Modern And Contemporary Southeast Asian Art : An Anthology / Nora A. Taylor And Boreth Ly, Editors. Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2012. N 7311 .M64 2012
Images and Videos
Ice Poison. Film director Midi Z and actress Wu Ke-Xi attend the opening of the film series Homecoming Myanmar: A Midi Z Retrospective and discuss the film Ice Poison (2014) with Asia Society Film Curator La Frances Hui. Midi Z is known for his intimate and authentic portraits of people struggling with poverty on the margins of Myanmar society. Introductory remarks, followed by post-screening Q&A. (48 min., 54 sec.)
The Palace on the Sea. Myanmar-born and Taiwan-based film director Midi Z and Taiwanese actress Wu Ke-Xi speak with Asia Society Film Curator La Frances Hui following the screening of the short film The Palace on the Sea (2014) and the feature film Return to Burma (2011). They are part of the film series Homecoming Myanmar: A Midi Z Retrospective. The speakers offer tales of filming in Myanmar and share their views on life in a changing Myanmar. (38 min., 45 sec.)
Arts Organizations
Cambodian Living Arts, a program of the Marion Institute, its misson is to facilitate the transformation of Cambodia through the arts.
Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University.
Museums and Art Galleries
South and Southeast Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Freer/Sackler the Smithsonian Museums of Asian Art
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History--Asia from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This a series of thematic essays covering many aspects of Asian art.
Art Instuitute of Chicago Asia collection.
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Harvard Art Museum.