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Resource Spotlight | “Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus” by Joan Aruz, ed. & Ronald Wallenfels
January 26, 2026
Resource Spotlight | “Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus” by Joan Aruz, ed. & Ronald Wallenfels
January 26, 2026
January 26, 2026
Oceanic Art | Winter 2025 Reading List
November 28, 2025
Oceanic Art | Winter 2025 Reading List
November 28, 2025
November 28, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Gold of the Americas” by Julie Jones and Heidi King
November 17, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Gold of the Americas” by Julie Jones and Heidi King
November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “The Mystery of Easter Island: The Story of an Expedition” by Mrs. Scoresby Routledge
August 27, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “The Mystery of Easter Island: The Story of an Expedition” by Mrs. Scoresby Routledge
August 27, 2025
August 27, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era” by Daniel Walker
August 21, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era” by Daniel Walker
August 21, 2025
August 21, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age” | Edited by Joan Aruz, Sarah B. Graff, & Yelena Rakic
April 16, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age” | Edited by Joan Aruz, Sarah B. Graff, & Yelena Rakic
April 16, 2025
April 16, 2025
“SEA ART” by Ana & Antonio Casanovas of Arte y Ritual with contributions from Jerome Feldman, Philippe Bourgoin, & Wil Roebroeks | Review by Steven G. Alpert
March 30, 2025
“SEA ART” by Ana & Antonio Casanovas of Arte y Ritual with contributions from Jerome Feldman, Philippe Bourgoin, & Wil Roebroeks | Review by Steven G. Alpert
March 30, 2025
March 30, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Maxwell K. Hearn
February 26, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Maxwell K. Hearn
February 26, 2025
February 26, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection” by Kate Ezra
January 23, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection” by Kate Ezra
January 23, 2025
January 23, 2025
Resource Spotlight | “The Commonality of Humans through Art: How Art Connects Mankind through the Ages” — Created and Edited by Stuart Handler
December 23, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “The Commonality of Humans through Art: How Art Connects Mankind through the Ages” — Created and Edited by Stuart Handler
December 23, 2024
December 23, 2024
Interview with Peter Lee & Resource Spotlight | “Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship — Nyonya Oeij Soen King, Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, Jane Hendromartono”
November 29, 2024
Interview with Peter Lee & Resource Spotlight | “Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship — Nyonya Oeij Soen King, Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, Jane Hendromartono”
November 29, 2024
November 29, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “An Annotated Bibliography of Indonesian, Filipino & Malay Edged Weapons” by T.D. Rogers
August 21, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “An Annotated Bibliography of Indonesian, Filipino & Malay Edged Weapons” by T.D. Rogers
August 21, 2024
August 21, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “Glass of the Sultans” by Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse
June 14, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “Glass of the Sultans” by Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse
June 14, 2024
June 14, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “Southeast Asia: A History in Objects” by Alexandra Green
May 26, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “Southeast Asia: A History in Objects” by Alexandra Green
May 26, 2024
May 26, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs” by Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit, Martina Rugiadi, and A. Peacock
May 22, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs” by Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit, Martina Rugiadi, and A. Peacock
May 22, 2024
May 22, 2024
Resource Spotlight | “Oceania: The Shape of Time” by Maia Nuku
October 29, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Oceania: The Shape of Time” by Maia Nuku
October 29, 2023
October 29, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Tanimbar Maluku: The Unique Moluccan Photographs of Petrus Drabbe” by Petrus Drabbe, Nico de Jonge, and Toos van Dijk
October 27, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Tanimbar Maluku: The Unique Moluccan Photographs of Petrus Drabbe” by Petrus Drabbe, Nico de Jonge, and Toos van Dijk
October 27, 2023
October 27, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid” by Gregory Forth
August 28, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid” by Gregory Forth
August 28, 2023
August 28, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353” by Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni
August 17, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353” by Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni
August 17, 2023
August 17, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Arts of Korea” from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 22, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Arts of Korea” from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 22, 2023
June 22, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Netsuke: Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Barbra Teri Okada
April 24, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Netsuke: Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Barbra Teri Okada
April 24, 2023
April 24, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea: Conflict and Adaptation in Early Colonial Timor, 1600-1800” by Hans Hägerdal
March 27, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea: Conflict and Adaptation in Early Colonial Timor, 1600-1800” by Hans Hägerdal
March 27, 2023
March 27, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “The Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art” by Michelle Rich
February 26, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “The Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art” by Michelle Rich
February 26, 2023
February 26, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Borneo at Heart: A Tribute to Bernard Sellato, Argonaut of the Tropical Rainforest” by Pierre Le Roux, Alexander Adelaar, Bernard Moizo
January 27, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “Borneo at Heart: A Tribute to Bernard Sellato, Argonaut of the Tropical Rainforest” by Pierre Le Roux, Alexander Adelaar, Bernard Moizo
January 27, 2023
January 27, 2023
Resource Spotlight | “A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age” by Brian C. Arnold
December 22, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age” by Brian C. Arnold
December 22, 2022
December 22, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet” by Steven M. Kossak and Jane Casey Singer, with an essay by Robert Bruce-Gardner
November 16, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet” by Steven M. Kossak and Jane Casey Singer, with an essay by Robert Bruce-Gardner
November 16, 2022
November 16, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “The Flame and the Lotus: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Kronos Collections” by Martin Lerner
October 14, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “The Flame and the Lotus: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Kronos Collections” by Martin Lerner
October 14, 2022
October 14, 2022
Art of the Ancestors Fall 2022 Reading List
September 20, 2022
Art of the Ancestors Fall 2022 Reading List
September 20, 2022
September 20, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia” by John Guy
September 16, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia” by John Guy
September 16, 2022
September 16, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other” by John Richens
August 23, 2022
Resource Spotlight | “Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other” by John Richens
August 23, 2022
August 23, 2022
 

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