(listed alphabetically by name of the museums and galleries)

An Explosion Event: Light Cycle over Central Park
Asia Society and Museum
New York, New York
through December 14
Large-scale drawings by Cai Guoqiang, a Chinese artist who now resides in New York, that served as studies for his "explosion" event in Central Park on September 15 to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the park. The drawings are made by burning gunpowder on paper.

Cai Guoqiang, Ancient Branding 2003, gunpowder on paper (courtesy of the Asia Society)

Leaning Forward, Looking Back: Eight Contemporary Artists from Korea
Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, California
October 18 - January 11
Featuring the work of eight artists—four men and four women, all in their forties and fifties—whose creations reflect connections between Korea's past and present.

Tibetan Legacy: Paintings from the Hahn Kwang-ho Collection
The British Museum
London, England
through November 23
Tibetan banner paintings (tangkas), most dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, from the collection of Dr. Hahn Kwang-ho of Seoul.

Passion for the Mountains: Seventeenth-Century Landscape Masterpieces from the Nanjing Museum
China Institute Gallery
New York, New York
through December 20
Sixty paintings, including album leaves, hand scrolls, and hanging scrolls—most of them never before exhibited in the United States—by landscape painters from Jinling (present-day Nanjing), an important center for art, calligraphy, literature, and theater during the seventeenth century. The focus is on works by the "Eight Masters of Jinling," the most important school of landscape painters in seventeenth-century China. (A related exhibition is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 25.)

Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection
Denver Art Museum
Denver, Colorado
October 18 - May 23
Paintings and photographs from China, Singapore, and Taiwan, dating from the 1980s and the 1990s, donated to the museum in 2001 by Vicki and Kent Logan, including works by Hung Tung-lu, Song Yonghong, Su-en Wong, Yu Youhan, Zeng Fanzhi, and Zhang Huan.

Confucius: At the Dawn of Chinese Humanism
Musée Guimet
Paris, France
October 29 – February 29
Ritual bronzes, stelae, ceramics, sculptures, and paintings on loan from museums in Shandong Province, where the city of Qufu, the ancestral home of Confucius, is located.

Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics
Japan Society
New York, New York
October 9 - January 11
Thirty-seven 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 Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in February, 2004.)

Kyoto Biennale 2003
Kyoto Art Center
Kyoto, Japan
through November 3
Creating "slowness" within "speed" is the theme of this biennial, which features dance, film, theater, and traditional performing arts from Japan and elsewhere in Asia, as well as contemporary art from Japan, China, Brazil, Croatia, France, Slovenia, and the United States.

The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, California
through January 4
Paintings, sculptures, textiles, manuscripts, and ritual implements from China, India, Mongolia, Nepal, and Tibet, on loan from museums and private collections in Europe, Nepal, and North America—including thirteen objects from the national collections of Nepal that have not been on view outside that country for over forty years—which illustrate the ideals and teachings of Himalayan Buddhist tantras, especially the Chakrasamvara Tantra.

Dreams of Yellow Mountains: Landscapes of Survival in Seventeenth-Century China
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
through January 11
Landscape paintings by artists who remained loyal to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and who resided in the former Ming capital of Nanjing during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1644- 1911). (The exhibition complements the loan exhibition from the Nanjing Museum on view at the China Institute Gallery through December 20.)

Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
through January 25
Oribe ceramics are the focus of this exhibition of nearly two hundred ceramics, paintings, lacquerware, and textiles from museums and private collections in Japan, Canada, and the United States that examines the dramatic stylistic changes in Japanese art during the Monoyama period (1573-1615).

Japan: Rising
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art
Palm Beach, Florida
through November 9
Works by fourteen young Japanese painters, sculptors, and sound artists.

Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington, D.C.
through January 11
Works of art from India, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, and Bhutan—dating from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries, from public and private collections in North America, Europe, and Asia—including 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.

Perspectives
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington, D.C.
through March 21
Two works by Japanese artist Yoyoi Kusama, Dots Obsession (1999) and Infinity Mirrored Room Love Forever (1996), mark the opening of a five-year program of installations by contemporary Asian artists in the Sackler's newly remodeled entrance pavilion.

Beyond the Surface: Japanese Style of Making Things
Singapore Art Museum
Singapore
through November 9
An exhibition of contemporary Japanese art and design includes work by photographers Miyako Ishiuchi and Michiko Kon, fiber-sculpture designer Hideho Tanaka, textile designer Reiko Sudo, and interior designer Tokujin Yoshioka.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Sea of Buddha
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
through January 4
Photographs of the thousand statues of the Bodhisatta Kannon taken inside Kyoto's thirteenth-century Buddhist temple Sanjusangendo (Hall of Thirty-Three Bays), by this artist who was born Japan in 1948 but has resided in the United States since the early 1970s. Several examples from his "Seascape" series are also included in the exhibition.

Brushing the Present: Contemporary Academy Painting from China
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York
through December 31
Works by twenty-eight contemporary Chinese artists affiliated with universities and art academies in North China, some of whom reconcile traditional techniques with contemporary themes, some of whom reject tradition completely.

Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, Connecticut
October 16 through January 11
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.