Brooklyn Museum to Devote New Gallery Space to Buddhist Art

The Brooklyn Museum will unveil a new gallery in January devoted to the “Arts of Buddhism,” with close to 70 objects from 14 countries dating from the second century C.E. to the early 2000s. The newest in a series of galleries focused on the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World collections, the installation will be organized by Joan Cummins, the museum’s senior curator of Asian art.
The presentation aims to serve as “an introduction to the tenets and history of the Buddhist