The artist Atta Kim putting finishing touches on Monologue of Ice, a 6-foot-tall ice sculpture of the Buddha which melts completely over the course of 8-25 hours, from the “ON-AIR Project,” 2002-present
NEW YORK ASIA WEEK, 2011 New York Asia Week, launched by the auction houses in the early 1990s, presumes that people who are interested in Tibetan sculpture might somehow also be interested in Malaysian batik and Chinese contemporary. Twenty years on, this fiction is stronger than ever, perhaps because it's fun, the idea of looking at art made during the past three millennia on the world's largest and most populous continent.
