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September 2010
Cover News: Rumble in the Jungle: the Disputed Preah Vihear Temple
June 2010
First Cirebon Cargo Auction is Scuppered in Indonesia
May 2010
Riding the Crest of The Chinese Art Market
April 2010
New Islamic Gallery Opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts
MARCH 2010
Guggenheim Museum Celebrates 50th Anniversary
February 2010
The Tomb of Cao Cao found in Henan Province in China
Next Month
Post with dragons on a floral ground, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), stone, height 205.1 cm. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Museum. Image on show in The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 28 September to 2 January
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OCTOBER 2010
From October 2010, the newspaper will be printed in fullcolour throughout
This issue contains our annual guide to Asian Art in London,including gallery shows, museum exhibitions, auctions and the wealth oflectures, workshops, symposia and periphery events.
Elsewhere in the newspaper we cover Splendours from theYongle and Xuande Reigns of China’s Ming Dynasty. This year, the Forbidden Cityin Beijing marks the 590th anniversary of its completion in 1420 as the seat ofthe Ming (1368-1644) capital. It also celebrates the 85th year of The PalaceMuseum’s founding in 1925. Both events are being commemorated by the monumentalexhibition, Splendours from the Yongle (1403-1424) and Xuande (1426-1435) Reignsof China’s Ming Dynasty at the Wu Men, Meridian Gate at the Forbidden City.
Martin Lorber explore’s the Metroplitan Museum of Art’s TheWorld of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty (ends 2 January 2011). Theexhibition covers the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai's birth, to 1368,the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China founded by Khubilai Khan, andfeatures every art form, including paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, textiles,ceramics, lacquer, and other decorative arts, religious and secular. Theobjects highlight new art forms and styles generated in China as a result ofthe unification of China under the Yuan dynasty and the massive influx ofcraftsmen from all over the vast Mongol empire—with reverberations in Italianart of the 14th century.
And a tribute by Tiffany Beres to Wu Guanzhong, theacclaimed Chinese painter who died this summer.
Our profile this month is with the Indian painter ViveekSharma.
Plus our usual monthly features – Islamic Arts Diary,Auction previews, news in profile and artist profile.
Asian Art Newspaper will have a stand at Fine Art Asia inthe Convention Centre from 3 to 6 October
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