NEW YORK.- Asia Society and Museum presents Images of the Divine: South and Southeast Asian Sculpture from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, on view through September 18th. Through stunning Hindu and Buddhist sculptures from South and Southeast Asia, explore the creative force inspired by the divine. The more than fifty works selected from the Asia Society’s renowned Rockefeller collection of Asian art highlight the ties within these two regions which date back at least as far as the 1st to 3rd centuries B.C.E. when Indian traders and missionaries from India and Sri Lanka introduced Hinduism and Buddhism to Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and Cambodia. These religious beliefs and their associated imagery are embodied in unique ways in the carved stone and cast metal sculptures of these geographically diverse areas. Highlighted works include an exquisitely carved 2nd- to 3rd-century sculpture of the Buddha from Gandhara, 7th-century imagery of Vishnu from Bihar, a spectacular 8th-century Bodhisattva Maitreya from Thailand and a powerful 12th–13th century image of Vajrasattva from East Java. Curated by Adriana Proser, Curator of Traditional Asian Art, Asia Society. Treasures of Asian Art catalogue ($40.50 members; $45 nonmembers; pbk) available at AsiaStore.