Cover: Venice Shows Strength as Cultural Crossroads. Profile, the artist Wardha Shabbir. Painting Freedom, the quest for cultural independence in India. Tipu Sultan, real and imagined, in art and fiction. Scholars’ Rocks, beloved by the Chinese literati. Life and ritual in the Yuanming Yuan, Beijing. Travel: The Silk Museum, in Tbilisi, Georgia. New Chinese ink paintings in Oxford. Chin textiles from Mandalay to Chittagong. Yoshida family prints, in London. IM Pei explored in Hong Kong, Antoin Sevrugin’s 19th-century photographs of Iran. Exhibitions, Hiroshige in Brooklyn, Gwaebul, large Buddhist paintings, in Seoul, and the artist Cheong So Pieng, in Singapore. Korean buncheong ceramics in Denver, and Bizen, Japanese ceramics, in Minneapolis. Auction previews. Islamic Arts Diary.
A landmark exhibition of textiles of the Chin peoples, who traditional hale from western Myanmar (Burma), northeastern India, and eastern Bangladesh was held at The Textile Museum in its old location in Washington DC in 2006. The show included nearly… Continue reading
The former glory of the imperial garden-palace, Yuanming yuan, also known as the ‘Garden of All Gardens’ comes to life in this exhibition that explores the history of the Qing court alongside the life led by its inhabitants within the… Continue reading
The Yoshida family’s printmaking legacy stretches over three generations. It began in the mid-19th century with Yoshida Kasaburo (1861-1894), who taught Western-style painting. Kasaburo’s artistic legacy continued with his daughter, Yoshida Fujio (1887-1987), who married fellow artist Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950),… Continue reading
The Government College of Art in Calcutta was ‘established by a benevolent government for the purpose of revealing to the Indians the superiority of European art’, in the second half of the 19th century. At the dawn of the 20th… Continue reading