Cover: The Palestinian Museum Opens on the West Bank. People: the artist Huang Rui. People: the artist Imran Qureshi in London. People: the antique dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi. People: the gallery owner Shirin Tavakolian. Travel: the secular architecture of Luang Prabang. Travel: the delights of Muscat, Oman. Travel: Sikh heritage in the Pujab. Conservation: a selection of Jamini Roy paintings at the Harn Museum in Florida. Mughal paintings in Cleveland. Great Tales of Asian Art in Adelaide. Paris section: Zao Wou-ki’s paintings on show at the Cernuschi. Oriental gardens at the Arab Institute. Paris auctions. What’s on at the Guimet – 19th century travel photography, Araki, Japanese contemporary photography. Carte Blanche: Shouchiku Tanabe. Exhibitions elsewhere: Treasures from the National Palace Museum in San Francisco; Lapis and Gold in Dublin; Sumatran Ship Cloths in San Francisco; Black Tigers in Hong Kong; Nepalese Seasons in New York; Tibetan book covers in Texas; Refining Modernism in Singapore; Bhupen Khakhar in London. Gallery shows. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
The inspiration for this major exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art was the December 2013 acquisition of works from the Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection of Mughal and Deccan Paintings.… Continue reading
The Institut du Monde Arabe has designed a wonderful exhibition in five parts that retraces the history of gardens of the Orient from earliest antiquity to the most contemporary innovations, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indian subcontinent. The intstitue… Continue reading
On my visit to Huang Rui’s Huantie studio on the northern outskirts of Beijing late last year, the artist without whom contemporary art in China would not be what it is today made a startling revelation. ‘I am thinking about… Continue reading
In January 2016, University of Florida’s resident museum – The Samuel P Harn Museum of Art – completed the restoration of seven paintings by the prolific Indian artist Jamini Roy. A US$50,000 grant award from the E Rhodes and Leona… Continue reading