Cover: The Tortoise and the Hare at European Auctions. Profile: the artist Han Bing. Photographs as narrator, Veins of Influence, images of Ceylon. Dining with the Sultan, the art of feasting, in Los Angeles. Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds, visual and material culture from the Mediterranean and East Asia. The Opulence of the World, Indian paintings from the Metzger Collection, in Zurich. Near and Far, connoisseurs, collectors, and dealers of Asian Art in France from 1750 to 1939. Our annual survey of books for 2023 in the Asian and Islamic art worlds, including reference, history, fiction and much more. Japanese contemporary photography in Paris, celebrating the Joseon dynasty in Seoul, Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija in New York, Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence, in Seattle. Islamic Arts Diary.
This exhibition explores the connoisseurs, collectors, and dealers of Asian Art in France from 1750 to 1939. Works in the exhibition come from a multitude of sources, including objects from the royal collections of Louis XV and Marie-Antoinette to the… Continue reading
Over the winter, the Guimet Museum, in Paris, is presenting the photographic project Hakanai Sonzai, which means in Japanese ‘I feel like an ephemeral creature myself’. Through the use of colour portraits, landscapes, and black and white still lifes resembling… Continue reading
This third chapter from the series of exhibitions called Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds is part of a composite research programme taking place at MAO between 2023 and 2024, which seeks to analyse the artistic trajectories and cultural dynamics that… Continue reading
The act of coming together to partake of a meal is a practice shared by all cultures. Food defines us – we are what we eat. Dining with the Sultan is the first exhibition to present Islamic art in the… Continue reading