Cover: Tibetan Thangkas Are Top Lot at London Sale. People: the painter, sculptor, and installation artist Manish Nai.
People: Jack Persekian on contemporary art in Palestine. Tim Clark on the new Hokusai show at the British Museum. Travel: Jakarata, once the famed Batavia of the Dutch East India Company and ‘Queen of the East’. Travel: China’s burgeoning contemporary art scene – where to go in Shanghai and Beijing. Travel: the allure of Moorish Spain. Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave in London. Ancient Chinese bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art on show at the Ringling in Florida. Heaven and Hell: Japanese Buddhism explored in San Antonio, Texas. Paris: exhibitions and auctions in the city of light this June. Conservation: Restoring 16th-century Japanese screens in Seattle. Exhibitions: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics in Denver, Japanese Bamboo at The Met in New York, Flower Power in San Francisco, conserving Asian textiles in Switzerland, the photographer Shirana Shahbazi in Berlin, Shih Chieh Huang: Resuable Universes in Massachusetts, Shirin Neshat in Venice, Fahrelnissa Zeid in London, and Indian paintings and coins in Oxford. Online auctions and gallery shows. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Andalusia’s complex history comprises successive invasions from the Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths and the Islamic Moors who have left their rich cultural legacies on the landscape of Spain. The Moors, part of the Umayyad dynasty, were mainly a mixed race of… Continue reading
Andalusia’s complex history comprises successive invasions from the Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths and the Islamic Moors who have left their rich cultural legacies on the landscape of Spain. The Moors, part of the Umayyad dynasty, were mainly a mixed race of… Continue reading
Hokusai Beyond the Great Wave is the extensive exhibition organised by the British Museum on the life and work of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). ‘Ever since the age of six I have had a mania for drawing the forms of objects.… Continue reading
Ever since the age of six I have had a mania for drawing the forms of objects. Towards the age of fifty I published a very large number of drawings, but I am dissatisfied with everything which I produced before… Continue reading
This an exciting and rare exhibition of Chinese ritual bronzes and later related material because of two reasons: the fact that they are long-famous and that they have never been exhibited outside of the halls of the Minneapolis Institute of… Continue reading
This an exciting and rare exhibition of archaic bronzes and later related material because of two reasons: the fact that they are long-famous and that they have never been exhibited outside of the halls of the Minneapolis Institute of Art… Continue reading
To visit artist Jin Feng’s studio beyond Beijing’s 5th Ring Road is a little like stepping back through time. The studio is part of a vast predominantly deserted rural estate that was once the home of Wan Li, Communist party… Continue reading
To visit artist Jin Feng’s studio beyond Beijing’s 5th Ring Road is a little like stepping back through time. The studio is part of a vast predominantly deserted rural estate that was once the home of Wan Li, Communist party… Continue reading