Other Sites Asian Arts Recommends

The following sites contain resources for Asian art and culture on the World Wide Web. Please note that links to these sites send you out of Asian Arts; you will need to use your browser's navigation buttons (the "back" button) and tools to return here if you wish. If you know of an interesting site featuring Asian art or culture, please let us know via the email response form. We are continually updating this page so feel free to come back and use this as your starting point for Asian art and culture.

• Paragon Book Gallery, Ltd., An excellent resource for finding books related to Asian Arts.
  
• Bauhinia Post-Modern Arts Hong Kong. Featuring Kar-yeung, who specializes in Post-modern Chinese painting.
• NEH Summer Institute at Poly Krishna and more.
• Images from Tsakli: Tibetan Ritual Paintings , an exhibition at the Menil Collection. This link leads to Jpegs of five Bonpo tsakli. Asian Arts has an article by Juan Li on the same subject, Tsakli, Tibetan Miniature Ritual Paintings
• Weihong's Studio An interesting website detailing the story of how this talented artist developed her skills during China's Cultural Revolution. Includes many samples of her work.
• Bonhams; the British Auction House, with sales in Islamic Art, Antiquities and Tribal Arts, as well as many other categories.
• Mongolia Home Page. Still under construction but worth a visit in the future (10/3/95)
• White Lotus Gallery. A gallery of contemporary Chinese and Japanese prints.
• Australia National University, Australia: site authored by Michael Greenhalgh, Department of Art History : a general art site strong in classical subjects, with several Asian subjects, including Contemporary Hong Kong Architecture and a survey of Islamic Architecture. Also Images for Art History at the ANU
• Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Includes an Asian page, presently featuring Korean ceramics.
• Krannert Art Museum The Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Includes an Asian Art exhibit with three illustrations.
• The Online Museum of Singapore Art and History; Singapore. Includes an exhibition on Indian art, Alamkara: 5000 Years of Indian Art. Explores the notion of ornamentation in the context of objects made for use in domestic, religious and courtly settings.
• The Freer and Sackler Galleries; Previously a combined website, now subsumed under the general Smithsonian Institution site. Schedule of exhibitions at the Sackler and at the Freer. Includes the new exhibit Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier.
• Orientique, a Hong Kong gallery, with a porcelain collection.
• The Virtual Gallery in Korea features work by Korean photographers.
• Electric Samurai An interesting site with a plethora of high-quality phtotographs of various Asian locations, including Mongolia. Also includes work by Asian artists.
• Exploring the Mandala The Vajrabhairava sand mandala constructed by Pema Losang Chogyen at Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art and a 3D computer model of a mandala.
• Tsöndrü Thangka Conservation Provides excellent commentary on thangka conservation as well as the components of a thangka.
• Thanka Exhibit An exhibit at the University of Michigan. 48 Tibetan thankas acquired by the Koelz Expedition of 1933. These are from a number of monasteries in Ladakh and represent various time periods and Buddhist sects.
• Chinese Art Links Contains a number of links, including art, dance and opera.
• Art of China Information on the various arts in China including art, music and food.
• The Arts of Taiwan Information about the arts in Taiwan. A good cultural perspective.
• Artasian: The World Wide Web Gallery of Asian Fine Art Gallery, introductory articles.

• Art on the Net, and page with excellent indices to various sites.
• World Art Treasures Switzerland. Fine design, images of works of art from China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia. English and French (sometimes from one to the other).
• Yahoo One of the best Web guides: Look under Art, then Asian Art and Exhibits.
• the Inimitable MKZDK futuristic and strange... and on the cutting edge of Web design. Nothing specifically Asian, but a design fest. A beautiful exhibition of ancient stones.
• Le WebLouvre; the famous Web Louvre, now known as the WebMuseum, from Nicholas Pioch the pioneer. The site is networked, carried by servers around the world. Click here for a USA server (Berkeley).
• ArtSource A good guide to Art resources on the Internet, from Mary Molinaro at the University of Kentucky.
• World Art Resources from the Ohio State University at Newark; an excellent resource catalogue. Includes World-Wide Art Resources- Museums, an excellent guide to Museum by location.
• The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology; University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee; Egyptian Art.
• Subway: Berkeley, California: a directory of Internet sites, includes a page Art, History, Culture and Museums
• The University of Oregon Art Museum.
• Sotheby's Art Links
• Internet for the Fine Arts is a comprehensive network of artists, galleries, museums, organizations, and resources relating to the fine arts.
• Index of Women Artists is an index of many of the women artists around the world. Alphabetized.
• World Art Treasures Includes a section on Asian art as well as other world artists.

• Shambhala Publications, An extensive listing of books about Asia.
• Sagar, Biannual journal of Center for Asian Studies at the U of Texas at Austin: articles, field research, research methodology.
• World Tibet Network News The latest news fromTibet, compiled by a team in Canada, posted on a Polish website.
• China the Beautiful, with the intorductory China Room , which has sections on Chinese painting and calligraphy.
• Republic of China Yearbook 1995 contains an assortment of information on China in the year 1995 ranging from cultural symbols to economic indicators.
• Information on India Includes an index.
• Links on India A very thorough listing.
• INDOlink The electronic link to India, and Indian communities world-wide. Includes the latest news on India.
• Asia, Inc. Online
• Links to Tibet on the Web. Learn more about Tibet from this jumping point.
• Tibet: Arts, People, Architecture Here is a good photographic source for information on Tibetan culture.
• Buddhist Resources on the Net A good resource to jump to other Buddhist sites on the web. Presented by the Flying Gyuto Brothers.
• Nyingma Centers Visit this site to find out about the Nyingma Institute and Dharma Publishing as well as other places with the Nyingma Centers.
• Buddhist Pointers A thorough jumping off point for numerous Buddhist related sites.
• Ligmincha Institute This site contains information on Dzogchen.
• Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library. Provides a thorough list of web and gopher sites for Buddhism resources and many other resources.
• Snow Lion Publications Contains news about Tibet and Tibet-related events as well as an extensive catalog of books on Tibetan culture and religion.
• Buddhist Studies and the Arts Contains information on Buddhist art and culture, including a zen thought for the day.
• Tibetan Women Refugees Includes photos of Tibetan people.
• Tsurphu Monastery Information on Tsurphu Monastery in Tibet. Don't miss the article on the Giant Thanka of Tsurphu in Asian Arts.
• China Cultural information on China.
• Noh Mask Home Page. Contains detailed information on carving the masks.

• Hyperwisdom Need any Mac technical tools or advice? Be sure to visit this site for help as well as other interesting information.

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