Cover news: South Asian Galleries Open at Royal Ontario Museum
Interview with Vincent Lefevre, curator of the trouble exhibition Masterpieces from the Ganges Delta: Collections from Bangladesh Museums at the Guimet Museum, Paris. Designed for Pleasure, Japanese prints at Asia Society NY. Profile/interview Ai Wei Wei and Feng Boyi. Annual guide to exhibitions and museum West Coast US. Zhangzhou ware, ceramics, in Manila. Ancient Chinese figure paintings at the Shanghai Museum. The Dragon’s Gift, the sacred arts of Bhutan at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection of Modern Chinese Art in London, Penumbra: Contemporary Art from Taiwan in Adelaide. Images of Nagaland at Brunei Gallery, London. Lu Chunsheng, video artist and photographer at Red Mansion Foundation, London
THIS EXHIBITION IS in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Japanese Art Society of America, formerly the Ukiyo-e Society of America. Like the Asia Society, the Japan Society, the Korea Society and the Rubin Museum of Art, JASA’s existence… Continue reading
FOLLOWING FOUR YEARS of intense preparation, the exhibition Masterpieces from the Ganges Delta: Collections from the Bangladesh Museums was scheduled to open at the Musée Guimet in early January, but now will only reach its audience through its magnificent catalogue. Less than… Continue reading
THIS IS A highly important exhibition because it is the first in the United States devoted to the Buddhist arts of Bhutan. With the exception of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, there is almost no Bhutanese art… Continue reading
FOR A LONG time the term, ‘Swatow’ has been applied to a variety of Chinese export ceramics, including those from the 16th and 17th centuries. They were widely believed to come from Shantou, the Guangdong port after which they were… Continue reading