Cover: Guggenheim Museum NY Celebrates 80th Anniversary.
Profile: Cao Fei, film-maker. The Sanli Tu, an ancient Chinese design book explored in New York. Profile: the Korean artist Do-Ho Suh. Christian Art in Asia and an exhibition of crosses at Westminster Abbey in London. The Silk Road. Masters and Students of the Utagawa School in Oberlin, Ohio. Tomb treasures from the Han dynasty at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Our annual guide to Asia Week New York, including essential listings, map, gallery show previews, auction previews and museum exhibitions. Chinese taste on show in Kansas City. Phulkari in Philadelphia and Chinese contemporary art in Dallas. Gallery shows in London and New York – Kazuo Shiraga, Agus Suwage, and a five Korean artists. Hong Kong auction previews. General listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
In northern Beijing’s Chaoyang District, set back from a busy road, is a delightful old disused cinema. Built circa mid 20th century, its white tiled façade has a distinctly Russian feel. The cinema has been closed for some time now… Continue reading
John Lockwood Kipling was passionately immersed in Indian culture. One of his many talents was as a writer, like his far more famous son, Rudyard. Describing Lahore, Kipling senior’s enchantment with the city in which he spent 20 years resonates… Continue reading
This shipwreck, found in 1998, was a 9th-century Arab ocean-going dhow on a commercial round trip voyage between their ports in the Abbasid Empire, which included almost the entire Middle East, and the port of Guangzhou in southern China. Found… Continue reading
In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the first of the Tokugawa family shogun, the military dictators of Japan. His ascension brought an end to almost 400 years of civil wars. To avoid the cauldron of plots, schemes and court intrigue in… Continue reading