Cover: Treasure Horde Found in Sichuan River China.
Profile: Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, founder of The Barjeel Art Foundation. Shahzia Sikander’s latest commission at Princeton University. An interview with the Indian artist Jitish Kallat. Edo- and Meiji-period glass in the Miho Museum’s 20th anniversary exhibition in Shigaraki province, Japan. Han-dynasty China on show in New York. Lu Yang and the role of female artists in China. Culture: local and international galleries gather in Brussels in June. New York auction reviews from March Asia Week. Hong Kong auction reviews and previews. London auction previews. Japanese House exhibition in London, Indian jewellery in California, and SOAS’s centenary exhibition in London. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander (b 1969) has created and installed two site-specific installations commissioned by Princeton University’s funding for campus art by living artists. Quintuplet Effect, a painting on glass, and Ecstasy as Sublime, Heart as Vector, a glass, ceramic,… Continue reading
Ma Qjuisha is a young Chinese video artist who established her reputation with autobiographical videos about the necessity for a woman to conform in China’s patriarchal society. In No. 4 Pingyuanli to No. 4 Tianqiaobeili (2007), she talks ‘face to… Continue reading
By Yvonne Tan In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Miho Museum in Shigaraki, Japan is hosting this special exhibition of Japanese glass from the Bindeisha Vidro-Diamante Glass Museum of Matsuyama, Shikoku founded by Daito Norisato in 2011. Glass-making was… Continue reading
ENDURING SPLENDOUR explores the traditions of the Thar Desert against the background of a 5,000-year history of jewellery making across the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on recent field research carried out in the city of Jaisalmer, a thriving centre of contemporary… Continue reading