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Profile: the Indian painter Atul Dodiya. An Indian portrait in New York hits the high note. Nagasaki and the Age of Discovery – early contact in Japan. Japanese prints discovered: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, in Philadelphia. Central Asian ikats, the power of pattern, in Los Angeles. Borobudur by moonlight, the photographs of Caroline and Hughes Dubois. The futuristic Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, in Baku, telling the tale of regional craft and design. Developments at the Qianlong Garden in the Forbidden City, Beijing. The royal arts of India come to Toronto in Treasures of a Desert Kingdom. Fashion and Fabrics of 19th-century Tehran, on show in Zurich. Awakenings: Asian contemporary art in Seoul. Lee Ufan in Metz, France, Tetsuya Ishida in Madrid and Badi Babalov in Baku. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Asian Art Newspaper takes a look at the carpets and artefacts on display at the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum in Baku. This specialised museum in Baku was first established in 1967 as the Azerbaijan State Museum of Carpet and Applied Art… Continue reading
Built on a plain near the present-day city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Borobudur, built in the 9th century, is considered the most important Buddhist monuments on the island of Java. Long hidden by the jungle, Borobudur was rediscovered by Europeans in… Continue reading
Asian Art Newspaper explores the antique treasures from the desert kingdom of Jodhpur in Rajastan, currently on show at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. The modern Indian state of Rajasthan, the largest in India, was, before independence, referred to as Rajputana,… Continue reading
One of Japan’s great printmakers, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, is being celebrated in the exhibition Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Spirit and Spectacle, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this month. In 1603 (or 1615, depending on the school of dating to which one cleaves),… Continue reading