Invisible Ink
about 124 months ago (03/03/2014)
Invisible Ink – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Richard Vine Plus Icon Richard Vine Managing Editor, Art in America View All March 3, 2014 2:10am View Gallery 6 Images “ Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China ,” now at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art , seems at first to be a long-awaited corrective to Western myopia in regard to Chinese ink painting and calligraphy. Curated by Maxwell K. Hearn, chairman of the museum’s department of Asian art, the show of 70 works by 35 artists seeks to explore the diversity of contemporary ink practice in China, while simultaneously honoring a formal tradition that has endured for millennia and is still deeply meaningful to no less than 1.3 billion people. That, at least, is what the show’s title leads viewers to expect.