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A review is offered for the gallery of Korean art at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, which opened in December 1992.

The article offers information on Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang, North Korea. It states that Mansudae serves as a home for over a thousand designers and artist and comprises one of the largest artistic enterprise in the world. The studio is organized in creative groups specializing in subjects including oil painting, sculpture, and printmaking. It mentions notable monuments in Mansudae including the Chollima Horse and Kim II Sung bronze monuments which depicts the country's battle.

The article discusses the opening of the Robert H. N. Ho Foundation Gallery of Buddhist Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, England. The article presents Buddhist sculpture from a range of geographical locations in a single time line from about 200 to 1850 AD. The arrangement is in response to expectations voiced by visitors for a contemplative space and provision of social and historical context in the exhibits. The theme of the first room of the gallery is the life of the Historical Buddha, 485-405 BC and shows the development of early sculpture in India and Sri Lanka. The second room continues the history of Buddhist sculpture from India, with Hindu influence, into Tibet and the Himalayan region. The third room shows Buddhism as it spread into Southeast Asia.

A review is offered for the new Korean art gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario.