In January 2016, University of Florida’s resident museum – The Samuel P Harn Museum of Art – completed the restoration of seven paintings by the prolific Indian artist Jamini Roy. A US$50,000 grant award from the E Rhodes and Leona… Continue reading
Every year at Asian Art Newspaper we produce a survey of the best art, reference, and fiction books published during the year. Here’s our choice of the Best Asian Art Books 2015. CHINA Silent Poetry: Chinese Paintings from the Collection… Continue reading
THE PERMANENT MISSION of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations (UN) is hosting Our Mother’s House a showcase of works by the Asiri women of mountainous Rijal Alma, Saudi Arabia. Initially presented from 16 to 26 November, in conjunction with… Continue reading
TO FIND the true spirit of mankind in the raw, there are few better destinations than New Guinea. One of the best-known inquirers into the art of the region was a scion of the Rockefeller family whose research ended in… Continue reading
SUNJEEV SAHOTA STUNNED readers with Ours Are the Streets, his debut novel about the gradual radicalisation of Imtiaz Raina, a Sheffield-born secularised Muslim, and again with his latest offering, The Year of the Runaways, which delves unflinchingly into the thorny… Continue reading
WE HEAR SO much about hi-tech India, the emergent global super-star. But what about rural India, village India, hardly urbanised at all? Or is it? Two photographic exhibitions are currently exploring the state of the art and the state of… Continue reading
THIS EXHIBITION FEATURES over 100 prints of transformative promised gifts of Japanese works to LACMA, including surimono and ukiyo-e, representing the work of 32 artists. Included are examples of rare early prints of the ukiyo-e genre (pictures of the floating world),… Continue reading
Japanese digital artist Ryoichi Kurokawa’s impressive cannon of audio-visual works appear as technologically advanced exercises for the mind. Combining vast symphonies of sound, coupled with terrifyingly intelligent x-ray anchored animation, they appear as a hypnotic swell of audio and image… Continue reading
THE DETROIT INDUSTRIALIST, Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), who made five visits to Japan between 1895 and 1911, managed to assemble a formidable collection of Japanese art in the intervening years. On 18 October 1906, he acquired Waves at Matsushima, a pair… Continue reading
WE ARE MET with sounds of lapping water. A coracle rows over a pine-fringed lake, dipping its oars in rhythmic strokes. Multi-coloured prayer flags whisper in the wind. The coracle moves smoothly across the lake, arriving, at last, at a… Continue reading