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Ars Orientalis

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Each fall the National Museum of Asian Art publishes, with the University of Michigan, a journal of the latest research in art of the Middle East and Asia. Titled Ars Orientalis, the journal is a collection of scholarship that crosses academic disciplines and covers a range of time periods, materials, and regions. After decades of guest-edited thematic volumes, since AO 54, we have returned to a model of open submission, inviting articles related to the arts of Asia without restriction.

Now available: Ars Orientalis 55 (2026)