If proof were needed for Cynthia Hazen Polsky's taste and erudition in the visual and decorative arts of India, it is available in the exhibition, In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Selections from the Polsky Collections and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in which more than 200 works were on view at the Asia Society in 2005. Here she speaks to Althea Viafora-Kress about her education in Indian art and aesthetics, the disparate export laws in Europe and Asia, and her seat on the acquisitions board for photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is a trustee. She is also a trustee of the Morgan Library, Trustee Emerita of the American Academy in Rome, Honorary Life Trustee of the Asia Society, and a member of Collectors Committee National Gallery of Art in Washington.
