For the 15th year, international galleries and auction houses celebrated Asia Week New York, displaying art from every corner of the Far East. Twenty-eight galleries from Chelsea to the Upper East Side showed rare and spectacular porcelain, textiles, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, bronzes, prints dating from the second millennium BCE to the present.
A daily calendar of viewings, auctions, and lectures included an annual reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mingling guests sipped cocktails, sampled hors d’oeuvres, and enjoyed after hours visits to museum galleries showing Chinese Painting and Decorative Arts and arts of Ancient China, Korea, Japan, India, South and Southeast Asia.
Guests were invited to a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cocktails were served among the balcony arches
A Spring Fizz was the featured cocktail
Designer Stephanie Stokes, architect Richard Aeck, artist Konoen Matsubara, Ippodo Gallery director Shoko Aono
Guests gathered for greetings
Andrea Bauer Met Museum Deputy Director of Collections and Administration
Mike Hearn, Met Museum Director of Asian Art
Guests were invited to visit galleries-exhibiting Asian art
