Cover: Khmer Gold Jewellery Returns to Cambodia. Profile: the figurative painter Jiab Prachakul. Her Brush, female painters of Japan, in Denver. Glaze tiles from the 15-th century Shwegugyi temple in Pegu, Burma. Luxury objects from Islamic Spain, in Turin. From the Archive: Botanical Company School prints. Art and culture of the Jain religion. Sayed Haider Raza exhibition in Paris. The prints of Saito Kiyoshi in Ohio. World ikats on show in Seattle. Ming-dynasty ceramics in Hong Kong, ancient Chinese bronzes from Anyang in Washington DC, and Korean books in New York. Zen temples: objects from Kyoto’s Tofuku-ji temple in Tokyo. Mohammed Sami in London. Auctions in HK and London. Islamic Arts Diary.
After almost 50 years, Jain culture returns to the Rietberg Museum in a major exhibition that offers a new take on the religion. On display from the museum’s own collection, and on loan from India, are lavishly illuminated manuscripts, sculptures,… Continue reading
With this exhibition, Museo d’Arte Orientale (MAO) in Turin wants to analyse the tension between Asia and the European continent in terms of the artistic and cultural trajectories undeniably tied historically by continuous trade, references, and hybridisation. Hence the drive… Continue reading
This exhibition features over 100 textiles made from the 12th century to the present, drawn from the museum’s collection and gifts and loans from the Seattle-based Collection of David and Marita Paly, including works from Asia, Africa, Europe and the… Continue reading
This intriguing exhibition takes a nuanced approach to questions of artistic voice, gender and agency through more than 100 works of painting, calligraphy, and ceramics by female Japanese painters from 1600s to 1900s Japan, with many of the artworks being… Continue reading