Cover: Profile: Khmer Artefacts Return to Cambodia. Profile: The calligrapher André Kneib. Captive Beauties: Depictions of Women in Late Imperial China. Life as a Price, courtly paintings from India. Tantra, exploring faith and philosophy through art, in London. Novadic jewellery from South Asia. From the Archives: Timbuktu to Tibet. The Ferrars Collection of photographs from Burma, in the Royal Geographical Soceity, London. A virtual journey to Iraq and Syria. Cao Fei at the Serpentine in London and Lee Mingwei in Berlin. Sheela Gowda in Munich. Amar Kanwar’s The Sovereign Forest and photographs of Foochow and the River Min by the 19th-century photographer John Thomson. Islamic Arts Diary.
CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY In conversation with Asian Art Newspaper, calligrapher André Kneib recounts his extraordinary journey which began long before it was easy, or fashionable, to travel to China. Even today, as globalisation has brought the art world closer together than… Continue reading
TANTRA Asian Art Newspaper discovers the history of Tantra, which is closely linked to Buddhism, learning about its role as a philosophy and its global impact through the centuries. The radical philosophy that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape… Continue reading
Captive Beauties An exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art explores the portrayal of women in Late Imperial Chinese paintings Women of all social statuses in imperial China were mostly confined to restricted, highly circumscribed lives. Their worth was often… Continue reading
ASIAN NOMADIC JEWELLERY Asian Art Newspaper takes a look at tribal South Asian jewellery from the Barbara and David Kipper collection, a promised gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, including tribal jewellery from Afghanistan and India The wide range… Continue reading