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Profile: the artist Zhang Hongtu. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Scottish photographer, John Thomson, visiting Angkor Wat. Interview with the audio-visual artist Ryoichi Kurokawa. The opening of the Mu Xin Musum in China. Sotatsu: Making Waves, the first major exhibition of this 17th-century artist’s work outside Japan. Asia in Amsterdam, Luxury in the Golden Age, at the Rijksmuseum. Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind, and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism, on show at the Wellcome Institute in London. Living for the Moment, Japanese prints from the Barbara S Bowman Collection in Los Angeles. Japanese exhibitions in Paris, Geneva, and New York. Locarno International Film Festival. Li Songsong in Baden Baden, Walid Raad in New York. Gallery Shows in New York and London. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
THIS EXHIBITION FEATURES over 100 prints of transformative promised gifts of Japanese works to LACMA, representing the work of 32 artists. Included are examples of rare early prints of the ukiyo-e genre (pictures of the floating world), works from the… Continue reading
Japanese digital artist Ryoichi Kurokawa’s impressive cannon of audio-visual works appear as technologically advanced exercises for the mind. Combining vast symphonies of sound, coupled with terrifyingly intelligent x-ray anchored animation, they appear as a hypnotic swell of audio and image… Continue reading
THE DETROIT INDUSTRIALIST, Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), who made five visits to Japan between 1895 and 1911, managed to assemble a formidable collection of Japanese art in the intervening years. On 18 October 1906, he acquired Waves at Matsushima, a pair… Continue reading
WE ARE MET with sounds of lapping water. A coracle rows over a pine-fringed lake, dipping its oars in rhythmic strokes. Multi-coloured prayer flags whisper in the wind. The coracle moves smoothly across the lake, arriving, at last, at a… Continue reading