The Livingston Public Library is hosting an art lecture with highlights from the Arts of Asia at the Newark Museum.
Newark Museum’s collections of the Arts of Asia were established in 1909. Twenty permanent galleries display over six hundred works from an Asian collection of 30,000 objects. The Tibetan galleries feature the most distinctive collection of Tibetan art in the Western Hemisphere. Medical missionaries obtained paintings, sculptures, ritual objects, fine textiles, photographs and decorative arts from 1911 to the 1940s. The centerpiece of the Tibetan galleries is a Buddhist Altar consecrated in 1990 by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
