This winter, the museum offers up Fabled Journeys in Asian Art, drawn from the Crow Collection. In works of art from all around Asia--paintings, fans, sculpture, carvings for the hand, furniture for the desk--rocks, jades, crystals, and corals-- journeys of many kinds are traced. Wide rivers are crossed on a reed, deep caves explored in the whitest jade; cities visited under golden clouds. Love is found on a mountaintop, babies are borne aloft in baskets, avatars descend to combat unrighteousness, pilgrims abandon home for a blessing, minds turn within to combat error. Journeys, it is acknowledged, bring change; follow some well-worn paths in fabled journeys from the cultures of Asia, and pave a road of your own.
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