Cover: Jade Sales Bring Mixed Results in New York.
Profile: the Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang. A studio visit to Li Shan’s studio near Shanghai. Ambiguity in Orientalist Art. Kuala Lumpur Gallery Weekend. Trade Wars: US/Chinese tariffs. Meisho Hakkei, Admiration for Landscapes: Eight Scenic Views, on show at the Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo. The Raffles Collection at The British Museum, London. Our annual guide to the galleries participating in Asian Art in London. Anno’s Journey at Japan House, London; and Istanbul to London, Turkish coffee houses explored in Oxford. Nam June Paik at Tate Modernism and the new exhibition, Buddhism at The British Library. Indian and Islamic Art Week in London, gallery shows in London and Singapore. Auctions in the UK and Hong Kong. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary.
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) spent most of his career as an East India Company official in Southeast Asia. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Java in 1811 and assumed the Lieutenant Governorship of Sumatra in 1818. Raffles is credited as… Continue reading
There is an abundance of ambiguity in Orientalist art. For Edward Said, a scholar of literature and music rather than the visual arts, those 19th-century Western paintings were distressingly black and white – or brownish and white. The artists were,… Continue reading
There was a moment in Kurt Neumann’s classic 1958 sci-fi horror movie, The Fly, when Vincent Price – the actor known for his roles in such films – delivered an introduction to the audience, ‘It would be unfair … to… Continue reading
Asian Art in London 2019 galleries are showing a variety of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Southeast Asian and Himalayan works of art alongside the London Chinese and Japanese sales by international auction houses Asian Art in London (AAL) is now in… Continue reading