October 2016
Cover: Philadelphia Museum of Art Reopens South Asian Galleries. Profile: the artist Ali Banisadr. A history of Kolkata’s Botanical Gardens. Shadow puppet theatre from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, in London. Kimono and Obi from Japan’s Golden Age. The making of Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, in St Louis. A look at 17th-century Chinese paintings from the Tsao Family Collection, on show in Los Angeles. The art of Korean mother-of-pearl inlay. Our guide to the galleries participating in Asian Art in London. London auction previews. Auction previews in Frankfurt, Melbourne and . Gallery shows in New York and Frankfurt,. London’s Japanese and Korean exhibitions. Chinese ceramics in Dallas, installation art and Chinese opera in New York, Indian prints in San Francisco and early Chinese books in San Marino. Islamic Arts Diary.
CANDLES FLICKER in the dark and magical shadows move across a white screen. As the music of bamboo and wood instruments starts, the adventures of mythical demons and goddesses, heroes and villains, epic battles, magic spells and unrequited love unfold… Continue reading
THIS AUTUMN, the St Louis Art Museum (SLAM) opens Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, an unparalleled display of a range of Japanese art depicting and responding to the reality of warfare. The exhibition scrutinises the relationship… Continue reading
THIS IS A colourful and festive exhibition with more levels of depth than a gold mine because what one sees on the surface is only just the beginning. Kudos goes out to the Met’s curators for cobbling this spectacle together… Continue reading
WHEN Colonel Robert Kyd proposed in 1786 that a botanic garden should be established in Calcutta (now Kolkata), he probably had little idea that it would still be on the same site and have the same essential form 230 years’… Continue reading