Exhibitions.(CURRENT and coming)(Brief article)

Several exhibitions are also happening at galleries and museums in New York during Asia Week. One is the China Institute's remarkable Noble Tombs at Mawangdui: Art and Life in the Changsha Kingdom, Third Century BCE to First Century CE, which opened in February and includes nearly seventy pieces of bronze sculpture, lacquerware, jade ornaments, seals, wood carvings, and silk costumes from the Hunan Provincial Museum on view in the United States for the first time. The 1972 to 1974 excavation of the tombs in Hunan Province in southeastern China--which date back some 2,100 years to the Western Han dynasty (206 BC-25 AD) and contained the remains and possessions of Li Cang, the marquis of Dai, and his wife and son--was considered one of the major archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century.

Arts of Japan: An Exhibition by the Japanese Art Dealers Association (JADA) will be on view from March 15 to 17 and will feature works from six leading American galleries that deal ...