Buddhist art of Myanmar review: a subtle, sculptural nirvana

Asia Society, New York
The opening up of Burma has resulted in a beautiful and fascinating exhibition of paintings, weavings and manuscripts from the region – but it’s the scultpure that really shines“Beauty is meaningless until it is shared,” wrote George Orwell in Burmese Days – his coruscating first novel of life in Southeast Asia during the last days of the Raj. It was truer than Orwell could have realized. For five decades after 1962, when a military dictatorship took power in Bur