Visitors to Kyoto and its residents will be able to experience a unique exhibition in October. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has partnered with Canon Inc and the Kyoto Culture Association (KCA) to show Masterpieces from Smithsonian’s National… Continue reading
The latest exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum highlights new archaeological discoveries of ancient China at Sanxingdui in Sichuan province, featuring 120 bronze, jade, gold, and pottery objects dating to 2,600-4,500 years. Nearly half of these were unearthed in… Continue reading
Leeum Museum of Art presents How to Become a Rock, a solo exhibition of one of Korea’s leading contemporary artists, Kim Beom (b 1963). Comprising works from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s, the large-scale survey exhibition brings together more… Continue reading
An exhibition at Honolulu Museum of Art is shaped around a recent major gift from one of the museum’s benefactors, allowing them to explore a fascinating period in Japanese art, comprising paintings, ceramics and lacquerware produced between the 1870s and… Continue reading
The latest exhibition at the British Museum, China’s Hidden Century, considers the rapid change that took place in China during the late 19th century and early 20th century under the Qing dynasty. From the end of the 18th century, successive… Continue reading
There is an interesting description of life in mid-19th century Ceylon, published in the New York Times in 1878, entitled Ceylon’s Spicy Breezes, filed by their special correspondent from Kandy, the cultural capital at the heart of the island. It… Continue reading
Fukuda Kodojin – Landscapes Fukuda Kodojin (1865-1944) was among a handful of scholar-artists who continued the tradition of literati painting (nanga) after 1900. Kodojin’s painting style is characterised by bizarre mountain forms rendered in vivid colour or monochromatic ink that… Continue reading
It is believed that Japonisme has its beginnings in the workshop of a printer in Paris, when, in the 1856, the painter and printmaker Félix Braquemond (1833-1914) came across, by chance, examples of Japanese manga (kacho-ga) by Hokusai that had… Continue reading
The mystic writings of the Persian poet known as Rumi (1207-1273) are generally considered to be the supreme expression of Sufism, the mystical trend in Islamic thought and culture. Rumi was born in 1207 in Vakhsh in present-day Tajikistan, to… Continue reading
Chinese Bird and Flower Paintings China’s artists have for centuries linked flora and fauna with auspicious meanings and scholarly virtues. There are flowers and plants associated with the four seasons and twelve months that convey a sense of time passing… Continue reading