Chinese Landscapes at the Met: If Those Mountains Could Talk

“Streams and Mountains Without End: Landscape Traditions of China,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features a collection reinstallation spiced with a few loans. But the Met’s China holdings are so broad and deep that some of the pictures here...

The NYRB China Archive
04.18.96

One More Art

Simon Leys
from New York Review of Books

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The discovery of a new major art should have more momentous implications for mankind than the exploration of an unknown continent or the sighting of a new planet.1

Since the dawn of its...