The Ainu are an indigenous people who have been living in northern Japan, especially on Hokkaido and the surrounding islands. In the past, members of this community were not able to fully express their distinct culture – a situation that… Continue reading
This is the museum’s first large-scale exhibition tracing historical trade links across the Pacific that connected Asia to the Americas and Europe. Featuring over 140 objects spanning the 16th to the 20th centuries, the exhibition allows visitors to discover how… Continue reading
The second part of the exhibition exploring visual culture influenced by The Tale of Genji in Paris, is dedicated to Itaro Yamaguchi (1901-2007), a master weaver from the Nishijin district of Kyoto, who wove and donated to the Guimet Museum… Continue reading
Howard Hodgkin’s (1932-2017) collection of Indian paintings includes works created at the Mughal, Deccan, Rajput, and Pahari courts dating from the 16th to the 19th century. It presents a unique and personal vision of India’s great painting traditions. The artist… Continue reading
In London, there is a major new exhibition featuring 23 mechanical clocks from China, zimingzhong, currently on loan from The Palace Museum. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the 18th century, from the Chinese trading port of Guangzhou… Continue reading
This exhibition explores the connoisseurs, collectors, and dealers of Asian Art in France from 1750 to 1939. Works in the exhibition come from a multitude of sources, including objects from the royal collections of Louis XV and Marie-Antoinette to the… Continue reading
Over the winter, the Guimet Museum, in Paris, is presenting the photographic project Hakanai Sonzai, which means in Japanese ‘I feel like an ephemeral creature myself’. Through the use of colour portraits, landscapes, and black and white still lifes resembling… Continue reading
This third chapter from the series of exhibitions called Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds is part of a composite research programme taking place at MAO between 2023 and 2024, which seeks to analyse the artistic trajectories and cultural dynamics that… Continue reading
The act of coming together to partake of a meal is a practice shared by all cultures. Food defines us – we are what we eat. Dining with the Sultan is the first exhibition to present Islamic art in the… Continue reading
Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) was a technically masterful and innovative artist best known for her ceramic sculptures, which she treated as abstract paintings in the round. Her gestural style, distinctive palettes, and complex layering of glazes align with the practices of… Continue reading