Last Thursday marked the opening of Asia Week New York’s nine-day extravaganza when 28 international galleries, six prestigious auction houses — Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel, and Sotheby’s — plus museums all threw open their doors to welcome Asian art collectors, curators and enthusiasts who have waited all year to come to New York to see remarkable Far Eastern treasures, from China, India, the Himalayas, Tibet, Japan and Korea, dating from the second millennium BCE to the present.