Cover: Olympics Reveals Jin-Dynasty Palace. Profile: the artist Danh Vo and his latest work on show in Luxembourg. Kabuki’s Golden Age, Japanese prints in Chicago. Weaving Stories, textiles from Southeast Asia. A tour of five centuries of Japanese paintings. From Afghanistan to New Zealand, the incredible journey of Ali Khadim’s tapestries. Faberge and the Kingdom of Siam. The art of Tajuddin Ismail, the veteran Malaysian artist. Wesley Tongson’s Chinese paintings on show in California. A guide to Asia Week New York 2022. New York spring auctions. Exhibitions of Islamic art in Lisbon, Yasumasa Murimora in Kyoto, and lacquerware in Seoul. Contemporary Thai art in St Ives, Cornwall. Islamic Arts Diary.
Tate St Ives started the year with Thai contemporary artist Thao Nguyen Phan’s first UK museum exhibition, which opened in February 2022. It includes new and recent videos, paintings and mixed media works which reflect the artist’s ongoing research into… Continue reading
Lying along the trade routes between India and China, the islands of Southeast Asia have been a crossroads for merchants, pilgrims, and travellers from many parts of the world. Weaving Stories, brings together more than 40 examples of Southeast Asian… Continue reading
In mid-August 2021, two weeks after the Taliban swept through Kabul cementing its grip on power throughout Afghanistan, a Sunni Pashtun driver made his way undetected from Quetta in Pakistan, to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Having made the journey several times… Continue reading
This exhibition of kakemono (hanging scroll), or kakejiku, is the first in Italy to focus exclusively on this art form, presenting 125 hanging scrolls, alongside painted fans and decorated lacquerwares from The Perino Collection. It explores the story of Japanese… Continue reading