Cover news: East Asian Ceramics Gift for National Museums Scotland
Profile: the photographer, installation and video artist, Almagul Menlibayeva. Baku: the opening of Yarat, a new arts centre for Azerbaijan. An interview with the Indian artist Hema Upadhyay. The Jantar Mantars of Northern India, photographed by Isamu Noguchi, on show in New York. The Shanghai Biennale 2014/2015. Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli at Davis Museum, Wellesley College. The Cosmos: An Enduring Mystery on show in Zurich. Revolution/Renaissance: The Art of Liu Kuo-Sung – a retrospective in Jakarta. High Tea: Glorious Manifestations East and West at the Norton Museum of Art in Florida. Woven Luxuries: Indian, Persian, and Turkish Velvets from the Indictor Collection in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Gallery shows. Raku ware in Los Angeles, Otagaki Rengetsu at the Morikami in Florida, Japanese cloisonné in Dublin, Hokusai’s prints on show at the MFA in Boston, and season landscapes, for the National Cherry Blossom Festival, in Washington DC. Mr., contemporary Japanese art in Seattle. Islamic Arts Diary.
THIS YEAR, the first sign of spring in the Caucasus was marked not only by warmer weather it also heralded an exciting new dawn for contemporary art in the Caucasus and the wider Central Asian region. In March, the new… Continue reading
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE in the Middle East is greatly enriched by a phalanx of inspired and inspiring Iranian artists. But in fact, despite the cataclysmic political and social upheaval of the country’s recent history including the Islamic Revolution of 1979, astonishingly… Continue reading
Seasonal Landscapes in Japanese Screens is on show during the National Cherry Blossom Festival and on into late summer in Washington DC. This exhibition of screens touches upon the changing of the seasons, one of the most culturally important markers… Continue reading
ALL LIFE ON earth is governed by the courses of the heavenly bodies, especially by the sun and the moon. They are responsible for the rhythm of time and for fluctuations in the earth’s climate and hence have an immediate… Continue reading