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Profile: Catching up with Jitish Kallat, artist and curator. The National Gallery of Singapore opened its doors to the public in November. Indian jewels, the Al Thani Collection on show at the V&A in London. Village India – photographs of rural life at the Brunei Gallery in London. Sepik, exploring the arts of Papua New Guinea at the Guimet in Paris. Textiles: The Fabric of India in London and Zo Textiles in Philadelphia. Author Profile: Sunjeev Sahota discusses his new book the Year of Runaways. Our 2015 annual guide to Asian Art and Islamic World books and catalogues. New York exhibitions: Saudi art at the UN in New York and contemporary East Asian at Smith College. Auction previews: Paris, Mumbai, and online. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Every year at Asian Art Newspaper we produce a survey of the best art, reference, and fiction books published during the year. Here’s our choice of the Best Asian Art Books 2015. CHINA Silent Poetry: Chinese Paintings from the Collection… Continue reading
THE PERMANENT MISSION of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations (UN) is hosting Our Mother’s House a showcase of works by the Asiri women of mountainous Rijal Alma, Saudi Arabia. Initially presented from 16 to 26 November, in conjunction with… Continue reading
TO FIND the true spirit of mankind in the raw, there are few better destinations than New Guinea. One of the best-known inquirers into the art of the region was a scion of the Rockefeller family whose research ended in… Continue reading
SUNJEEV SAHOTA STUNNED readers with Ours Are the Streets, his debut novel about the gradual radicalisation of Imtiaz Raina, a Sheffield-born secularised Muslim, and again with his latest offering, The Year of the Runaways, which delves unflinchingly into the thorny… Continue reading
WE HEAR SO much about hi-tech India, the emergent global super-star. But what about rural India, village India, hardly urbanised at all? Or is it? Two photographic exhibitions are currently exploring the state of the art and the state of… Continue reading