Cover news:Tang Dynasty Politician’s Tomb Found in Northern China
Profile: the artist Michael Joo. Angkor: Birth of a Myth, Louis Delaporte and Cambodia, on show at Musée Guimet in Paris. Asian and Islamic art at this year’s Venice Biennale. Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900, the major new show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Our annual guide to Asian Art in London, including gallery shows, museum exhibitions, auctions and events. Museum exhibitions elsewhere: Asia Society Hong Kong – No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia; In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty, on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco; Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting at the Berkeley Art Museum in California; and Bronzes of Imperial China from the 10th to the 19th Century in Paris at the Cernuschi Museum. Islamic Week auctions in London. Fairs – Olympia in London and the Fine Art Fair in Hong Kong. Islamic Arts Diary. Listings.
COMPRISING OVER a thousand pieces, the Musée Cernuschi collection is one of the largest in the world of bronzes from the Song to the Qing dynasty. In China, beginning with the very first dynasties, bronze was a much-valued material for… Continue reading
THIS EXHIBITION OF Korean Art during the Joseon dynasty is the first major US exhibition to explore the colourfully choreographed ceremonies of Korea’s Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). The legacy of this dynasty, amongst the world’s longest, continues to resonate in Korean… Continue reading
IN EARLY MODERN Japan, 1600-1900, thousands of sexually explicit works of art were produced, known as ‘spring pictures’, or shunga. This exhibition, the first in the UK, examines the often tender, funny, beautiful and undoubtedly accomplished shunga that were produced… Continue reading
THE CHALLENGE FACING every curator in charge of the Venice Biennale before starting his selection process is to find a theme that will connect the various works of art. This year, the 2013 curator, Massimiliano Gioni, from the New Museum… Continue reading