CHINA HAS BEEN fuelling the fashionable imagination for centuries. Ever since the Silk route opened up trade between China and the Roman Empire almost two thousand years ago and began transporting precious cargoes of decorative arts and silk textiles to… Continue reading
THE PHOTOGRAPHER Tomoko Sawada (b 1977 in Kobe, Japan) has been part of the international art world for almost 20 years, exploring the concepts of personality and identity. Relying on her own face and body, Tomoko Sawada has impersonated countless… Continue reading
XU BING IS one of China’s most influential living artists. For more than 25 years his works have been challenging, probing and teaching a diverse global audience. In this time he has developed a rich artistic idiolect. His ground-breaking early… Continue reading
THIS YEAR, the first sign of spring in the Caucasus was marked not only by warmer weather it also heralded an exciting new dawn for contemporary art in the Caucasus and the wider Central Asian region. In March, the new… Continue reading
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE in the Middle East is greatly enriched by a phalanx of inspired and inspiring Iranian artists. But in fact, despite the cataclysmic political and social upheaval of the country’s recent history including the Islamic Revolution of 1979, astonishingly… Continue reading
Seasonal Landscapes in Japanese Screens is on show during the National Cherry Blossom Festival and on into late summer in Washington DC. This exhibition of screens touches upon the changing of the seasons, one of the most culturally important markers… Continue reading
ALL LIFE ON earth is governed by the courses of the heavenly bodies, especially by the sun and the moon. They are responsible for the rhythm of time and for fluctuations in the earth’s climate and hence have an immediate… Continue reading
COMPRISING approximately 70 works from the 5th through the early 20th century, this is the first exhibition of Buddhist Art of Myanar in the US devoted to the arts of ancient Burma. The works include objects of stone, bronze, and… Continue reading
SPANNING FOUR centuries, the Kano school of painting is believed to have been one of the most influential artistic disciplines in Japan. The school, which flourished beneath the Tokugawa shogunate, was established in the late 15th century and endured until… Continue reading
THIS ECLECTIC but relatively neglected art of mediaeval southern India, which existed during a period of roughly 400 years (up to the 19th century) is currently found in an exhibition at the National Museum (NM) in New Delhi – the… Continue reading