This summer the exhibition Fabled Journeys in Asian Art will expand to include East Asia. This East Asian exhibition draws on works of art from the Crow Collection, with distinctive literary and cultural terrain.

The first section of the East Asian portion of the exhibition presents selected paintings, carved jade and porcelain sculpture inspired by Taoism, which developed in China.

Another focus of the exhibition is journeys figured in images of women - with their own expressed balances of yin and yang.

The third section of the exhibition features large ceramic horses and camels made for journeys into the afterlife in burial tombs.

They are emblems of China's "this-worldly" expansion into Central and Western Asia during the Han (206 BC-AD 24) and Tang (AD 618-907) dynasties along roads that came to be known as the Silk Road.

Date: Till Aug 5

Venue: The Crow Collection, Dallas

Website: www.crowcollection.com

(China Daily 07/06/2012 page23)