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Profile: The Korean artist Lee Ufan. Byobu: The Grandeur of Japanese Screens at Yale University Art Gallery. Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, on show in Philadelphia. Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands 1250-1900, in Cleveland. Women in Chinese Painting at the Freer Gallery in Washington DC. Imari porcelain for European palaces. Our annual guide to the events of Asia Week New York, including gallery shows, museum exhibitions, auctions and other events. Includes our map and comprehensive NYC listings. Fairs – in Maastricht and New York. Silvermine Beijing – a photographic archive. Bharti Kher in Shanghai, Les Arts Décoratif’s Chinese Collection on show in Paris and Islamic Arts Diary.
THIS WELL-RECEIVED exhibition on contemporary Chinese art presents works 70 by 35 artists born in China. It explores the idea of China’s age-old habit of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models. How the past can be the… Continue reading
THEY USED TO call pre-modern Korea ‘the Hermit Kingdom’. The name no longer applies, yet the country’s cultural and artistic traditions remain relatively unknown in the West. Hyunsoo Woo, The Maxine and Howard Lewis Associate Curator at Philadelphia Museum of… Continue reading
LOOKING AROUND the rich interiors of almost any of the palaces or grand houses of Europe, one invariably spots Chinese or Japanese porcelain objects that had originally been imported during the 17th and 18th centuries. Not that many it seems… Continue reading
‘NOW COME with me and cast your eye over the immense crowd of turbaned heads, wrapped in countless folds of the whitest silk, and bright raiment of every kind and hue, and everywhere the brilliance of gold, silver, purple, silk and… Continue reading