Cover: Stratospheric Prices for Extraordinary Objects.
Profile: the artist Adel Abdessemed. An interview with Chinese artist Guo Jian in Australia. The age of discovery, Japan’s Global Baroque. A guide to Cultures: three fairs, including Asian Art in Brussels. Minority textiles in Asia, the craft of the Kam people in Guizhou. Figures in Islamic Art at the David Collection in Copenhagen. New York Asia Week auction reviews. Auction previews in Hong Kong, London, and Sydney. East and Southeast Asian ceramics in Vienna, Lee Bae in St-Paul de Vence, France, and the architect Junya Ishigami in Paris. Gallerys shows: In New York, Japanese ceramics and contemporary glass, and Chinese contemporary art. The International Antiques Fair in Hong Kong. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Referred to as the za, elderly women of the Kam people of China keep hundreds-of-years-worth of knowledge alive in songs and crafts in the village of Dimen. They work from dawn to dusk to support their families, make traditional products… Continue reading
When two cultures encounter each other for the first time there is a danger of conflict, a clash of cultures. Whatever the result, the meeting will impact and force changes on both sides – for better or for worse. However,… Continue reading
Dissident Australian-Chinese artist Guo Jian lives in semi-rural isolation two hours north of Sydney on the New South Wales Central Coast, in a house large enough to swallow several families. His studio, once a large three-car garage is 100-square metres… Continue reading
It is rare to find such a survey of Southeast and East Asian ceramics in Europe. The exhibition is based on the Slunecko Collection in Austria and over 120 objects are on view. The display is arranged by country and… Continue reading