None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection Through June 16, Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Manhattan, japansociety.org; (212) 832-1155.

art collector george gund at the Asian Art museum in SF with a painting & calligraphy from his collection. Gund not only owns the san jose sharks but is a big collector of zen art.

In art as in philosophy, Zen revels in contradiction. The picture of an ant running endlessly round a grindstone is a comment on futility. A priest, on the brink of spiritual discovery, ...