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Profile: Iranian artists Icy and Slot. Shinto, Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art, in Cleveland. Southeast Asian ceramics and sculpture on show in Chicago. Traded Treasure: Indian Textiles for Global Markets at Cornell, New York. The forgotten world of otsu-e, Japanese folk paintings, on show in Paris. Water, Islam, and Art, the major new exhibition explored in Milan. The artist Raza Azad discusses his latest project in Sydney. New York Asia Week auction reviews. Hong Kong auction previews. Fairs – in Hong Kong and Brussels. Classical Chinese painting in San Francisco, contemporary Chinese photography in Paris, and Mingqi, Chinese tomb sculptures in Connecticut. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Shinto, The Way of the Gods, is Japan’s ancient belief system focused on the veneration of divine phenomena, or spirits, called kami – nature divinities of the land, sky, and waters. The essence of Shinto lies in the worship of… Continue reading
The Islamic religion was born in the Arabian Peninsula when it was virtual a desert, where water was greatly valued from the earliest of times. Water, known as ‘ma’ in Arabic, is probably the single vital resource that has been… Continue reading
The concurrent exhibition, Passion for Form (from the MacLean Collection) blends seamlessly with Southeast Asian Ceramics from the Collection of James E Breece, III, because of their two different approaches to the early arts of Southeast Asia. The Passion exhibition… Continue reading
The Taiwanese artist Au Ho-nien is one of the present third-generation masters of the Lingnan (South of the Mountains) School of painting which originated in the Guangdong area of southern China at the end of the 19th century. Lingnan is… Continue reading