Xun Sun
‘I DO NOT believe television. I do not believe the newspapers. I do not believe movies, they all lie. Opera lies. Go to the church or temple to obtain truth? They both lie. The government lies. What I learned in… Continue reading
November 2016
Cover: Strong Sales for Hong Kong. Profile: Korean artist Lee Lee Nam.
Interview with the painter YZ Kami. Conflicts of Interest: Japan’s wars in the late 19th and 20th centuries. In the studio of Sun Xun in Beijing. A new initiative: Gallery Weekend in Kuala Lumpur in November. Jameel Prize 4 in Istanbul. A Third Gender in Japanese Prints on show in Toronto. The Asian and Islamic world films at Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. The Buddha exhibition in Ambsterdam. Rodin’s Cambodian dancers in London. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection on show in Montreal. New York Fall auction reviews. Chinese women artists in Michigan. Walasse Ting exhibition in Paris. The prints of Ito Shinsui in Zurich. Cai Guo-Qiang’s new show in Maastricht. Tales of Our Times at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Contemporary Indian art at Princeton in New Jersey. Islamic Arts Diary.
Rodin and Dance
WHEN THE DANCE troupe of the Cambodian royal court visited France in July 1906 they inspired Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), one of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century, to create 150 superb drawings in just a few days. Rodin &… Continue reading
A Third Gender in Japanese Prints
THIS ground-breaking exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is art oriented, but the art is a bold sociological coverage about the main subject, the wakashu of Edo, the great merchant-class capital of Japan which by the 1760s had become… Continue reading
The Jameel Prize
THE JAMEEL PRIZE is awarded biennially for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. The resulting exhibition of the fourth edition recently opened at the Pera Museum, Istanbul, where the Prize was awarded to a Pakistani artist, Ghulam Mohammad.… Continue reading