(listed alphabetically by name of the museums and galleries)

Treasures of the Sons of Heaven: The Imperial Collection from the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Altes Museum
Berlin, Germany
through October 12
Paintings and calligraphy, porcelain, carved jade, ancient ritual bronzes, cloisonné enamels, rare seals and book prints, woodcarvings, lacquer, and embroidery from the National Palace Museum's collection. (The exhibition will travel to the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn in November.)

Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit
American Museum of Natural History
New York, New York
through January 4, 2004
Woodblock prints and the woodblocks from which they are made; handmade textiles, including tribal bridal costumes; historical and contemporary ceramics and baskets; palanquins carried during festivals; votive paper goods; water puppets; and an ancestral altar are among the four hundred ceremonial and everyday items on view in this exhibition of life in Vietnam today, which was organized in collaboration with the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi.

Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
through August 17
Works of art from India, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, and Bhutandating from the sixth to the nineteenth centuries, from public and private collections in North America, Europe, and Asiaincluding temple sculptures of stone and wood; terra-cotta figures; bronzes that have been embellished with inlaid gemstones, gilding, and paint; vividly colored paintings on cloth, palm leaf, paper, and wood; and ritual objects of various media.

Focus: Yoshihiro Suda
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
through August 24
Life-size sculptures of flowers, plants, weeds, and other natural forms, hand carved from magnolia wood. The first solo museum exhibition in the United States by this Japanese artist who was born in 1969 and whose works have been widely exhibited in Asia, Europe, and, in group shows, the United States.

Landscape of Memory: The Art of Mu Xin
Asia Society Museum
New York, New York
through September 7
Landscape paintings, in guache and ink on paper, that combine classical Western and Chinese artistic traditions and Prison Notes, created while the artistwho now resides in the United States and is known in the Chinese community here, in Taiwan, and Hong Kong mainly for his writingwas held in detention in China in the 1970s.

Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
through September 14
An investigation of the politics of representation in photographs of architecture in India, from British colonial days to the post-colonial period, includes photographs, postcards, albums, paintings, and engravings, as well as more recent advertising and film images. (The exhibition will travel to the Yale Center for British Art in October.)

The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
through September 14
South Indian bronzes produced between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, from important collections of temple bronzes in the United States and Europe. Photomurals of temples, as well as bronze statuary fully draped, ornamented, and ready for processional rituals, recreate the context in which these religious icons are seen and worshiped in South Indian temples today.

Tea Utensils under Wraps
Freer Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
through January 4, 2004
Boxes and textiles used to store Japanese tea ceremony vessels that, according to the curator, "reflect the status of the utensils within and the personal tastes of their owners, constituting a sort of material manifestation of the utensil histories."

Extension and Breakthrough: Present State of Contemporary Chinese Ceramics
Guangzhou Museum of Art
Guangzhou, China
through September 25
An exhibition of contemporary Chinese ceramics, featuring works by twenty-two artists.

Tabaimo
Hara Museum ARC
Shibukawa, Japan
July 26 - October 26
Recent works by a twenty-seven-year-old multimedia artist whose installations, made using computer animation technology, incorporate scenes from everyday life, such as kitchens, pedestrian crossings and public baths.

Sun Xingge: An Exhibition of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Hong Kong
through August 20
Landscape paintings, flower and bird paintings, and calligraphy couplets by Sun Xingge (1897-1996), pseudonym Shiwan Shanren, a native of Guangdong Province who settled in Hong Kong in 1949.

Transmitting Culture: Korean Ceramics from Korean American Collections in Southern California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, California
August 21 - February 1, 2004
Fifty examples of Korean ceramics, ranging from unglazed stoneware of the Three Kingdoms (57 BCE-668 CE) and Silla (668-935) periods to celadons of the Koryo (918-1392) era to Choson (1392-1910) porcelains, all gifts given or promised to the museum by Korean American collectors in Southern California.

Drawing the Line: Contemporary Artists Reassess Traditional East Asian Calligraphy
Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, California
through October 5
An exhibition divided into three sectionsCalligraphy Renewed, Calligraphy Reinvented, and Calligraphy Deconstructeddisplays works dating from the 1970s to 2002 by twelve Asian American and Asian artists based predominately in the United States, among them Gu Wenda, Xu Bing, and Kazuaki Tanahashi.

Masterpieces of Asian Nineteenth-Century Photography
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, Massachusetts
through September 28
Albumen, carbon, and printing-out-paper prints, from the museum's extensive collection, depicting the people, landscapes, and cultural sites of Japan, China, India, and Tibet, by Chinese, American, European, Indian, and Japanese photographers, including Felix Beato, Samuel Bourne, Raja Deen Dayal, Hing Tung, and Milton Miller.

Sculpture in Silk: Costumes from Japan's Noh Theater
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
July 27 - September 21
Over one hundred historical Edo period (1615-1868) and contemporary examples of the silk robes and carved wooden masks used in Japan's Noh theater, along with photographs of theatrical productions, from the Yamaguchi Noh Research Center in Japan.

Alors, la Chine?
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
through October 13
A precursor to the Year of China in France, which commences in October, the exhibition includes painting, photography, sculpture, installations, architecture, and music by fifty contemporary Chinese artists. The title refers to an article by Roland Barthes first published in le Monde in 1974.

Takashi Murakami at Rockefeller Center: Reversed Double Helix Rockefeller Center New York, New York September 9 - October 12 An outdoor art exhibition featuring a thirty-foot tall, freestanding sculpture called Tongarikun (Mr. Pointy), flanked by four smaller figures, low-lying mushrooms that will serve as a seating area for visitors, and two huge floating balloons, by the Japanese artist whose work draws from both anime and manga.

Takashi Murakami's Tongarikun (Mr. Pointy) (courtesy of Takashi Murakami)

Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington, D.C.
through September 7
Thirty-four ceramic pieces by Isamu Noguchi (1904-88), created during the artist's visits to Japan in 1931, 1950, and 1952, along with works by leading ceramic artists with whom he worked or interacted while he was in Japan. (The exhibition will travel to the Japan Society Gallery in New York in October and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in February, 2004.)

Auto*Focus: Raghubir Singh's Way into India
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington, D.C.
through August 10
Forty-eight photographs that combine the late Indian photographer Raghubir Singh's passion for vibrant color and the Indian landscape with his fascination with the Ambassador car, whose distinctive silhouette can be seen all over India. The Ambassador appears in all the photographs: either it is placed in the landscape, or, conversely, the landscape is seen through the car's windows or reflected in its mirrors.

Painted Visions from India and Pakistan, Past and Present
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, Washington
through September 7
Two exhibitions "Intimate Worlds: Masterpieces of Indian Painting from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection," organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which includes works from the sixteenth to the late-nineteenth century, and "Conversations with Traditions: Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander," from New York City's Asia Society, by two contemporary artists, one born in India and the other a native of Pakistanare presented side by side.

15 Tracks: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art Tama Art University Museum Tokyo, Japan through September 7 An exhibition featuring paintings, sculptures, installation art, and video art by fifteen artists from the ten member countries of ASEAN. Tibet: Mountains and Valleys, Castles and Tents from the Newark Museum Collection Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, Massachusetts
	Krisna Murti (Indonesia) Wayang Machine, 2001-02, video still (courtesy of the Singapore Art Museum)