Confronting China. (Chinese art exhibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art) From: Town & Country | Date: May 1, 1996| Author: Gurewitsch, Matthew | COPYRIGHT 1996 © Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art will host a new exhibit through May 19, 1996 that features the great works of dynastic Chinese art. The exhibit is on loan from the National Palace Museum of Art of Taipei and it is expected to confound the mostly Eurocentric art lovers of the West.

How should the untutored Westerner respond to the great works of art of Imperial China, now on display in New York? Sometimes, the most honest thing to do is to admit is to a little bafflement...