The new national museum of Singapore. Sacred Books, on show at the British Library. The Smile in Japanese Art, Mori Museum, Tokyo. Guide to Asia Week March, New York. The Real Thing, Contemporary Chinese art at Tate, Liverpool. Nabeshima porcelain for the shogunate, in Osaka. Tent bands of Central Asia, Textile Museum, Washington. The Silk Road in Inner Mongolia, exhibition in Hong Kong. Art of Sassanian Iran, Asia Society, New York. Awakenings, Zen Figure painting in Medieval Japan, Japan Society, New York. Tea, Wine and Poetry, exhibition at China Insitute.