Cover: Early Chinese Landscape Masterpiece Donated to Met.
Profile: artist and film-maker Fiona Tan. Khadim Ali, an Hazara artist now settled in Sydney. Anicent rock painting in Sri Lanka. Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Empires. Inventing Utamaro: a Japanese masterpiece reunited in Washington DC. London-based Bangladeshi Rana Begum. The return of the dragons to Kew’s Great Pagoda in London. 100 Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art in Paris. Designing Japan, the best of modern design in Philadelphia. Charming Journey, NS Harsha in Tokyo. Indian in Full Frame, Cartier-Bresson’s photographs on show at the Rubin in New York. Indian Pahari paintings in Zurich. The archaic character of seal script explained in Ohio. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
The Tokugawa peace brought prosperity and the growth of urban life to Edo Japan (1615-1868). A chonin, or ‘townspeople’, culture flourished in its cities, as merchants from the lower rungs of the Confucian social order rose to become new sources… Continue reading
Located in Uva Province of Sri Lanka, at an elevation of just over 1,200 metres, the Kurullangala rock art stands unique in Sri Lanka. Access to the site is via an extremely dangerous, steep climb or ‘rock hop’ where one… Continue reading
ON THE white plasterboard walls of Hazara artist Khadim Ali’s box-like western-Sydney studio he has just painted larger-than-life – if grotesque, bestial heads. Part-horned creatures with long goat-like tubular ears and exaggerated cranial bones, they do, however, retain some human… Continue reading
Nowadays (circa 239 BC), the house of Zhou has been destroyed, [the succession of] the Sons of Heaven has been severed. There is no greater turmoil than the absence of the Son of Heaven; without the Son of Heaven, the… Continue reading