SEPTEMBER 2016
Cover: World Heritage Committee Inscribes New Sites in Asia. Profile: the painter Lu Chao. Feng Mengbo at home in Beijing. Singaporean master potter Iskandar Jalil. Korean Contemporary art, the Dansaekhwa movement. Christian art in Asia, on show in Sinagpore. Six Dynasties China comes alive in New York at the new China Institute. New York gallery shows. New York auction previews. New York exhibitions at Asia Society, the Metropolitan Museum of art, and the Rubin Museum of Art. Fairs in Paris and Hong Kong. Hong Kong auction previews. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Just as the historian Edward Gibbon could imagine a Europe shaped by Islam, Asia could also have developed very differently. Gibbon saw a battle in central France in 732 as being the factor that prevented Muslims from eventually taking over… Continue reading
WILLOW WEILAN HAI, Director, China Institute Gallery, and chief curator of the exhibition commented that recent excavations in China due to an unprecedented building boom have been an amazing gift to the archeological community, adding greatly to our knowledge of… Continue reading
UNTIL THE master potter Iskandar Jalil (b 1940, Singapore) came along, the making of pottery languished in relative obscurity as a minor craft in his birthplace. During a 40-year career, he worked to give it the recognition it deserved. Iskandar’s… Continue reading
‘Architecture is deeply connected to our impression and experience of places. While we may never visit these sites ourselves, we often become acquainted with them through encounters with images on postcards, souvenirs, and various forms of media. In Lhasa, Buddhist… Continue reading