Cover: Top Lots Fly at Asia Week New York Sales. Profile: the Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo. An interview with the artist Tang Song in Shanghai. Scholar’s rocks and literati pursuits. The life of the former emperor of Vietnam, Ham Nghi, in Nice. Guide to the June event Printemps Asiatique in Paris. Paris June auction previews and scheduled events for Printemps Asiatique in June. Gallery shows in New York, Paris, and Singapore. Tibetan and Himalayan contemporary art in Virginia and New York. Korean treasures in Brussels and Chinese antiquities in Nantucket. The art of Kawanabe Kyosai in London and Islamic art in Zurich. Auction previews in London and Hong Kong. Islamic Arts Diary.
Taking the theme of the warrior class in Japan, this exhibition in Paris explores samurai culture by exploring the aristocratic and samurai taste for noh theatre, the rise in popularity of the tea ceremony, and samurai’s attention to dress, weapons,… Continue reading
Collecting and appreciating rocks has a long history in China. During the Song dynasty (960-1249), the literati and elite classes collected and traded rocks with the same passion as they did for fine art. Treatises were written on the desirable… Continue reading
According to common belief, Islam has an absolute ban on images and is hostile to pictorial representations, quite in contrast to Christianity. But is this actually true? Are images categorically forbidden in Islam? And what about Christianity: does not Moses’s… Continue reading
Misty landscapes at twilight in gentle colours of purple, violet, lavender, grey, blue and gold, characterise the paintings of Hàm Nghi, former emperor of Vietnam. L’Art en Exil, an exhibition at the Musée Des Arts Asiatiques in Nice, focuses on… Continue reading