AAN October 2021
Cover: HK’s Museum of Visual Art to Open n November. Profile: the painter Edi Hila. A visit to the studio of He Gong, in Chengdu. The centenary of the Oriental Ceramics Society in the UK. Indian textiles, the story of muslin. From the archives: Life, Death, and Magic in Southeast Asian Ancestral Art. Gold of the Great Steppe, in Cambridge. Asian Art in London gallery shows. UK Exhibitions: Hokusai at the British Museum, Anicka Yi at Tate Modern, Isamu Noguchi at The Barbican, The Jameel Prize at the V&A. Tokyo Art & Photography at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Auction previews – London. Gallery shows around the world. Exhibitions: Chinese rubbings in Ohio, Indian goddesses in Lisbon, Chinese ink painting in Taiwan and Etel Adnan in New York. Islamic Arts Diary.
This month From the Archives looks at an exhibition on the ancestor culture of Southeast Asia, which was the first large exhibition to explore works of art made in Southeast Asia to honour the ancestors and the spirits of nature.… Continue reading
I first met Chinese artist He Gong in May 2019, in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, when I visited his studio in the Lushan Art Village on the southern fringes of the city. The studio was located in a… Continue reading
The centenary exhibition, Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of the Oriental Ceramic Society, celebrates the story of the Society, of many of its founder and key early members and the central role it has played in making the UK the… Continue reading
Although little is known of the lives of the nomadic tribes who over 2,500 years ago roamed the Asian steppe situated in today’s Kazakhstan, the region’s semi-arid climate has provided the perfect temperature and humidity in the ground’s permafrost for… Continue reading