Stornoway’s Museum nan Eilean, in Scotland, may well be hosting its most eclectic exhibition to date. On the walls, there are watercolour paintings and drawings depicting people, places and monuments in India and Java. Next to these are stone sculptures,… Continue reading
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Sotheby’s in New York and the auction houses in England and in Europe sold most late Utagawa School prints by Kuniyoshi (excluding his early works), Kunisada I aka Toyokuni III, Kunisada II and III,… Continue reading
by Denise Heywood In bustling modern Bangkok, down an alley off a crowded street, is a tranquil corner of old Siam: The Jim Thompson Museum. To visit it is to enter a magical world. Set in a fragrant tropical… Continue reading
by Lucien de Guise Imagining the Divine shows how the world’s great religions found their way into the artistic limelight in this exhibition currently on in Oxford. The Ashmolean Museum has recently been taking a spiritual direction that might seem… Continue reading