Cover news: Ceramics Top of the Heap in Hong Kong Auctions
Profile: Chinese artist Yang Yiechang. The roots of Zen in Japan, the 800th memorial of Yosai, at Tokyo National Museum. The art of discovery – early Korean paintings in the Honolulu Museum of Arts collection. Chinese paintings from Japanese collections, on show at LACMA in Los Angeles. Our guide to Asian Art in Brussels in early June. The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperor at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Auction previews for Genoa, Hong Kong, London and Milan and the International Antiques Fair in Hong Kong. Oil & Water: Reinterpreting Ink, Chinese paintings in New York. Mapping Ming China’s Maritime World: The Selden Map on show in Hong Kong. New York Asia Week auctions review. The opening of the new extension of the Nanjing Museum. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
LAST YEAR, the Cultural Heritage Administration, based in Singapore, approached the Honolulu Museum of Art in Honolulu about applying for a grant to conserve the Korean artworks in its collection. Some of the Korean paintings in the museum’s collection have… Continue reading
NANJING IS THE hugely prosperous capital of Jiangsu Province. Surrounded by heavily wooded hills with luxurious vegetation, it still has many of its original high Ming walls, now crumbling with all the pleasure of ruins. The Yangtze, wide, swollen and… Continue reading
RATHER-LESS VISTED by foreign tourists than other major sites, Kenninji Temple is well-known for being the oldest Zen temple in Kyoto, even though it has been much re-built from time to time throughout its history. The temple was founded in… Continue reading
YANG ZHICHAO IS arguably China’s most extreme performance artist, who has used his body as a medium to comment obliquely on social issues and to examine the place of the individual within Chinese society. He has cut, pierced, burned, and… Continue reading