Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada

Dates: 20 November 2010 - 27 February 2011

Website:  http://www.ago.net/maharaja-exhibition

Details: This fall, the Art Gallery of Ontario opens its doors to the riches of India's maharajas.  Organized in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts is the first exhibition to comprehensively explore the opulent world of the maharajas and their unique culture of artistic patronage.  The exhibition spans the beginning of the 18th century, to the end of British rule in 1947, and concludes with a look at the legacy of the maharajas today.

New Installation at the Freer Gallery of Art
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Website: http://www.asia.si.edu/
Details: "I am over my head in love with India!" said Charles Lang Freer, founder of the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art, in an 1894 letter he wrote home from his first trip to the subcontinent. Now, visitors to the gallery will be able to share in Mr. Freer's enthusiasm when the gallery inaugurates a new long-term installation, showcasing the extraordinary range of South Asian and Himalayan art in the collection—considered to be among the most important in the world. "Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas" remains open indefinitely, with periodic rotations of light-sensitive objects.

25 centuries of exchange between Asia and Europe

Venue: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Dates: through 10 October 2010

Website: http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=9135&

Details: Europe and Asia have had close relations for thousands of years. Commercial and political networks developed both on land - via the Silk Road - and on sea. Conquerors like Alexander the Great, Attila, and Genghis Khan set out in search of glory, wealth, and power; travellers like Marco Polo, Zheng He, and Magellan were fascinated by riches, silk, spices, porcelain, etc. Trade opened the way for the spread of major religious and philosophical trends, inexhaustible sources of inspirations for art and culture. A Passage to Asia throws light on 2,500 years of exchanges between Asia and Europe and also between different Asian peoples. The exhibition presents an exceptional selection of over 300 decorative and artistic objects never previously shown in Europe: burial urns, bronze ritual drums, gold jewellery, ivories, old maps, and unique textiles, as well as extraordinary cargo recently recovered from shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea. Both the exhibition and a festival will coincide with the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) 2010 summit.

Venue: Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland

Dates: through 3 October 2010

Website: http://www.cbl.ie/Exhibitions/Temporary-Exhibitions.aspx

Details: Among the most remarkable of Mughal paintings and calligraphies are those commissioned by the Emperors Jahangir (1605-27) and Shah Jahan (1627-58) for display in lavish imperial albums.

Moving Images from India

Dates: until 10 October 2010

Venue: Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Unter den Linden 13/15, 10117 Berlin

Website: http://www.deutsche-guggenheim-berlin.de/e/ausstellungen-bsp.php

Details: Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India is oriented toward co-producing new work, facilitating research, and assembling a community of practitioners. A resolutely heterogeneous and ultimately unresolved exhibition, it attempts to avoid some of the pitfalls of surveying contemporary production in a given region.

Dates: 17 June 2010 - 9 January 2011

Venue: Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena California 91101
Website: http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/

Details: Throughout Thailand’s artistic history, Buddhism has played a prominent role in inspiring artists and patrons. This is attested by the production of Buddhist narratives in stone, textile and paint as well as Buddha images that have been created since the nation’s pre-history to the present. In a unique exhibition opening on June 17, 2010 at the Pacific Asia Museum, visitors will be able to experience the role of art as seen through the eyes of the most devout of all Buddhist practitioners, the sangha (monastic order). This exhibition focuses on the living tradition of Buddhist practice in Thailand and among Thai diasporic communities in Los Angeles. To further emphasize issues of context and religious practice, objects chosen for the exhibition were hand selected by monks from Wat Thai in Los Angeles. The exhibition was co-curated by Dr. Melody Rod-ari and the monks of Wat Thai, Los Angeles.