BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART 200 Eastern Parkway at Prospect Park Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 tel: (718) 638-5000 internet: wwar.com/brooklyn_museum/index.html
		•Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas Ongoing
			This exhibit includes works from Polynesia, Melanesia, and Indonesia. An important installation of more than 50 objects from Melanesia, which features masks, shields, and statuary, recently opened.
		•The Arts of Asia Ongoing
			The Asian art collection contains items from East and South Asia, Cambodia, China, India, Iran, Japan, Thailand, Tibet, and Turkey. Among the highlights of the collection are the only complete set in the US of Hiroshige's woodblock series "100 Famous Views of Edo;" a Nishapur bowl from Iran (9th or 10th-century); a celadon ewer from Korea (12th-century); a Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue-and-White Jar with a design of fishes and water plants; a collection of art from Iran's Qajar dynasty (1790s to 1924); and the collection of Korean art, considered to be one of the most important in the U.S.
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