Cover: The Louvre’s Big Move. Profile: the artist Vivien Zhang. Diversity in Edo-period kabuki prints.
Abstraction and calligraphy, on show in Abu Dhabi. Epic Iran is the latest blockbusters exhibition due to open soon in London.
Chinese Art from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, in New York.
A history of the luxurious Chinese export wallpapers and where to see them. The Way We Eat: looking at how East Asia has engaged with food over the centuries.
From the Archives: Encompassing the Globe, Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Burmese modern art, Bagyi Aung Soe, in Paris. Exhibitions in Japan, France, Monaco and the US.
Auction previews in London and Hong Kong. Gallery show in Paris.
Islamic Arts Diary.
This exhibition, Epic Iran, which should have opened in February, is now scheduled to open in mid-May. It is on a grand scale – aiming to explore 5,000 years of Iranian art, design and culture, bringing together over 300 objects… Continue reading
The Centre Pompidou in Paris has organised the first major exhibition of Burmese Modern Art by Bagyi Aung Soe (1923-1990), who was renowned for his modernistic, semi-abstract art and considered one of Myanmar’s most prolific modern artists. A selection of… Continue reading
Portugal was the first European nation to build an extensive commercial empire reaching eastward to Africa and Brazil and westward, through the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, to India, China, Southeast Asia and Japan. Here, Asian Art Newspaper explores the… Continue reading
Enter the world of Japanese Kabuki prints and you arrive at the floating world, a place of theatres, tea houses, and the pleasure quarters of geishas and courtesans in the great cities of Edo (Tokyo), Osaka, and Kyoto. It is… Continue reading