APRIL 2016
Cover news:
New Asian Art Study Centre for Berkeley Art Museum
Profile: the photographer Bae Bien-U. Indian textiles – Krishna in the Garden of Assam at the British Museum, London. Puja and Piety: Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Indian contemporary artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra. Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan, in New York. Malaysian artist Chang Fee Ming. Latiff Mohidin, sculptor and painter. The art of the Japanese garden through early gardening catalogues. The Spirit of Indian Painting, Close Encounters with 101 Great Works, 1100-1900. The 50t anniversary celebrations at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman on show in Michigan. The Body of Devotion, the Cosmic Buddha in 3D in Washington DC. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
JAPANESE FLOWERS – and their place in the home and garden – have long fascinated horticulturalists from Europe and America. In his 1892 essay In a Japanese Garden, writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn observed that ‘something about the Japanese manner… Continue reading
KRISHNA IN THE Garden of Assam: the Cultural Context of an Indian Textile explores the cultural history of Assam through an exhibition at the British Museum centred on a rare 17th-century woven silk textile from Assam in northeastern India called… Continue reading
TO CELEBRATE ITS 75th anniversary this year, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has curated an exhibition of Indian religions and their art (on display until August), exploring the relationship between aesthetic expression and devotional practice, or puja, in… Continue reading
ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1923, Carl Whiting Bishop, the Freer Gallery of Art’s first curator, acquired a sculpture of ‘the Cosmic Buddha’, or Vairochana in Beijing. A headless, life-size limestone figure, the Buddha is an important figure in the Buddhist pantheon,… Continue reading