Sunday, April 12, 2015

Buddhist Art of Burma--

with Friend--

saw among other items, a 4-5th century stele from Burma--possibly oldest artifact ever found

and my friend mentioned by name in this NYTS article.

Make sure you take a look at this, as you will not find such good photos of the items in the show anywhere else.

In fact, looked like they only allowed the NYTS and no one else, to take photos.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/arts/design/art-of-devotion.html#

Lovely Indian epic movie--but failed at the box office--Samrat Prithviraj.

Based on a real king and a real poet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samrat_Prithviraj The Princess is lovely, the king of another kingdom...