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DECEMBER 2016

Cover: Iconic Buddha at Jahan Abad Restored.
In the People Section: the painter Nicky Nodjoumi; Beijing husband and wife artists Hu Xiaoyuan and Qiu Xioafei; Eddi Prabandono spends his time between Okinawa and Jakarta; Painter Raqib Shaw in London; The gallerist Erik Thomsen; curator Hollis Goodall discuses life at LACMA, Los Angeles. The Travel Section: spending time in Phnom Penh; touring the Jaffna in the north of Sri Lanka; Exploring the Izu Peninsula, Japan; In the footsteps of the Buddha in India. Features: The glory of Jade in Paris. The epic of the Ramayana unfolds in San Francisco. Syria’s civilisations explored in Toronto. Power and Protection in the Islamic World on show in Oxford. Conservation: Preserving Nirvana, the Edo-period painting Death of the Historical Buddha restored at MFA, Boston. Our annual 2017 survey of books from Asian and the Islamic World. Regulars: exhibitions, auctions, listings and Islamic Arts Diary.

Syria A Living History and Traditions

December 1, 2016Heather
Lion’s Head, Historic Syria, 9th–8th centuries BC, ivory, carved. With permission of the Royal Ontario Museum © ROM

A country that has for centuries enjoyed a unique mosaic of ethnicities, cultures, religions, and sects has been reduced in six years of senseless factional war to brutally divided fiefs with ruined cities and towns, and scorched landscape. Now, an… Continue reading →

Current Issue, DECEMBER 2016, Newspaper

The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe

December 1, 2016Heather
Hanuman, Angada, and Jambavan climb Mount Mahendra, circa 1720, India, western Pahari region, Himachal Pradesh, opaque watercolours and gold on paper, Museum Rietberg Zurich. Photograph © Rainer Wolfsberger.

The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco is the most complete exploration of Ramayana-related art to be seen in the US. Exhibition curator and editor of the catalogue Forrest McGill has assembled 135… Continue reading →

Current Issue, DECEMBER 2016, Newspaper

JADE: A Long History in China

November 30, 2016Heather
Dragon-pig, zhulong, northeast China, Neolithic, Hongshan culture (3500-3000 BC), MNAAG, Paris, Dr Giesler Collection, 1932 © RMN-Grand Palais (musée Guimet, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier

Confucius on Jade said: ‘The gentlemen scholars of antiquity all enjoyed the extraordinary qualities found in jade: warmth, smoothness, and a certain gloss, it had a benevolent and good character, as it is considered fine, compact, yet strong, like a… Continue reading →

Current Issue, DECEMBER 2016

IZU PENINSULA: TRAVELLING BACK IN TIME

November 30, 2016Heather
Mt Fuji from the 6th-century Tumulus site near Heda

You get to see it briefly from Atami or Mishima, between the tunnels as you head towards Kyoto on the Shinkansen Bullet Express; a fleeting glimpse of steep forested mountains rising from the sea on the left-hand side of the… Continue reading →

Current Issue, DECEMBER 2016, Newspaper, Travel Features
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World Monuments Fund Announce Watch Sites. Profile: the Turkish artist Mehmet Ali-Uysal. The life and work of Kamoda Shoji in Minneapolis. Beasts of India and The Deep – tribal art in India. Ganjifa, playing cards of India. Textiles from Safavid Iran in Washington DC. From the Archives: Translucent World: Jade from the Palace Museum. Japanese Treasures from Royal Collections in London. Costumes and stories from Noh theatre in Venice. The Art of the Samurai in Cambridge, UK. The Legacy of Ceylon. Popular art in modern Korea. Ali Kazim in Oxford and Geoffrey Bawa in Colombo. Children of the Meiji period in Paris, Swapnaa Tamhane ‘s Indian textiles in Toroto. Dinh Q. Le in Paris and Indian contemporary art in Melbourne. Gallery shows and auctions. Islamic Arts Diary.
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