Cover: Shuri Castle in Okinawa Damaged by Fire. Studio Visit: the artist Li Yongzheng in Chengdu.
Profile: Hayv Kahraman discusses her Iraqi/Kurdish heritage. Orientalism: The West’s fascination with the East. Conservation: The restoration of a Chinese ancestor portrait from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Hasui, on show in Italy. Travel: The mountain town of Sheki in Azerbaijan; Bali explored through temples, palace, and art; Chengdu in China’s picturesque southwest. Buddhism, the major new show at the British Library, in London. Books 2019: our annual round-up, including reference and fiction. Gallery shows in New York and Paris. A Korean Buddhist masterpiece in Washington DC. Auctions: a pair of George Chinnery’s paintings go on sale next year in London. Kurdish art in Washington DC. Contemporary Korean and Japanese art in Paris. Shipwrecks in San Francisco and Chinese banquets at Princeton. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Asian Art Newspaper explores the Silk Road town of Sheki, in Azerbaijan’s Greater Caucasus Azerbaijan is not on the well-worn tourist path, but things are beginning to change and it is becoming one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in… Continue reading
The British Library in London opened a major exhibition to explore the roots, art, and enduring popularity of one of the worlds, great religions – Buddhism. The exhibition comprises artefacts from 20 countries from over 2,000 years – more than… Continue reading
Divided into four sections, the exhibition features a selection of over 100 woodblock prints providing a tour of Japan’s most evocative places, both real and imaginary, while documenting the art and culture of a country that has experienced a profound… Continue reading
The usual reaction to the mention of Western shipwrecks is that one most commonly thinks of Spanish 16th- and 17th-century treasure galleons that originated in the Spanish colonies in the New World and were sunk by hurricanes along the middle of… Continue reading