Cover news: Ashmolean Museum Acquires Modern Chinese Art Gift
Profile: Maryam Arif, photographer – and medical doctor – from Pakistan. Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo, contemporary Japanese art at the MFA in Boston. The Al-Thani Collection of Indian jewellery, with special emphasis on the Mughal period. Dhaka art galleries and institutions. Japanese ceramics – the Dreams of Itaya Hazan, on show at the Idemitsu Museum in Tokyo. A review of this year’s Singapore Biennale. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is showing the major exhibition Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom. A generous family donation to the Minneapolis Institute of Art is marked by the exhibition The Audacious Eye: Japanese Art from the Clark Collections. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Accelerated Buddha is on show in Paris, as are Chu Teh-Chun’s abstract paintings – at the Pinacotheque de Paris. The Fragrance of Ink – Korean paintings on show at the Baur Foundation in Geneva. Subodh Gupta’s Everything Is Inside is at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi. Edinburgh’s National Museum of Scotland is showing their collection of Kabubi prints. February is an important month for art in South Asia: previews of India Art Fair, Dhaka Art Summit and the Colombo Biennale. Isamu Noguchi and Qi Bashi at the Noguchi Museum in New York. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
THE MUSEUM OF Fine Arts in Boston has recently received a transformative gift of over 90 pieces spanning the late 20th and 21st centuries, given by collectors Stanley and Mary Ann Snider from their Japanese art. Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo… Continue reading
THE FIRST-EVER exhibition in the West to focus exclusively on the art of Silla is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Co-organised with and drawn from the holdings of the National Museum of Korea and Gyeongju National… Continue reading
ITAYA HAZAN (1872-1963) was a pioneer of modern Japanese ceramics who was ahead of his time. Around World War I, Hazan began adopting the Western style of Art Nouveau, and integrated its elements into Japanese and Chinese ceramic forms. During… Continue reading
IN MUGHAL INDIA, everything was jewelled. Across classes and faiths, gems and jewels were an integral aspect of daily wear; there were forms to adorn and beautify every part of the body in both secular and sacred spheres. However, jewellery… Continue reading