Lu Yang, The Great Adventure of Material World – Game Film, 2020, (video still). Courtesy: the artist and Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Works from the Art Gallery’s collection of Asian art, which stretches from Indonesia to Mongolia and Japan to Iran, are displayed over two floors in the Asian Lantern. Both galleries have been refurbished and feature vibrant exhibitions celebrating the richness and depth of a collection that began in 1879 and continues to develop.

Highlights include Lu Yang’s The great adventure of material world – game film which brings together sci-fi gaming with Hindu and Buddhist iconography, Nam June Paik’s 1991 sculpture Buddha game, and a magnificent 13th-century gilt bronze of the compassionate bodhisattva Padmapani from Nepal.