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Profile: the Indian artist Jitish Kallat. Looking at Qiu Anxiong’s latest work – Part 3 of New Book of Mountains and Seas. Contemporary Chinese women artists on show at Bowdoin College, Maine. An interview with the Korean artist Lee Bul. Negoro: Mediaeval Japanese lacquerware at the Miho Museum in Japan. The Night of Longing: Shunga at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Indian Tribal bronzes on show at the Rietberg in Zurich. The art of curating in India – a conversation with Vidya Shivadas. Asian films at Locarno International Film Festival. Dayanita Singh’s photographs in London. The Jameel Prize 3 shortlisted artists are now on show at the V&A in London. Auction reviews – Hong Kong and New York. Auction previews –Hong Kong and online. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
THIS EXHIBITION STAGES a parade of some 300 figurines, deities, horsemen, animals and dancers in a state of trance. They are all from Bastar, an old princely state located in today’s Indian State of Chhattisgarh. Approximately two thirds of Bastar’s… Continue reading