Some of you may be interested in this review in a recent WSJ re the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts South and Southeast Asian Sculpture Gallery.
--this installation is in some ways a return to Coomaraswamy's ideals—with key differences. While Coomaraswamy liked to present India as a cohesive and closed unit, Ms. Weinstein draws attention to art's disregard for borders by mingling some 120 works from South and Southeast Asia in a chronological progression from the third millennium B.C. to the 19th century.
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