Cover news: Fujisan Added to World Heritage List
Cover: Fujisan Added to World Heritage List
Profile: Takesada Mastutani, member of the Gutai Group. The Hakutoro Collection, Chinese ceramics in Osaka. Chinese paintings in Japan, the Ichikawa Beian Collection on show at Tokyo National Museum. Luang Prabang temple restoration in Laos. New York galleries fall shows. New York museum exhibitions, including Iran Modern at Asia Society and Explored Interwoven Glove at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York auction previews. Ai Wei Wei’s Zodiac Heads in Dallas and Tsutsukagi indigo textiles at the Guimet in Paris. Early modern Japanese prints, reassembling an exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. Sotheby’s Hong Kong auctions in October. Islamic Arts Diary. Listings.
IN 1930, the Toledo Museum of Art played a critical role in popularizing modern Japanese woodblock prints in North America by organising the largest exhibition ever devoted to the movement and producing an authoritative and important catalogue to accompany it… Continue reading
This is the first exhibition at the Met to explore the international transmittal of design from the 16th to the early 19th century through the medium of textiles. While previous studies have focused on this story from the viewpoint of… Continue reading
ON 6 SEPTEMBER, the first large-scale exhibition of Iranian Modern Art in the United States will take over two floors at the Asia Society in New York. While the exhibition focuses on the artistic period just preceding political revolution, featuring… Continue reading
The Chinese paintings currently conserved in Japanese collections reflect more than a thousand years of connoisseurship in that country. A primary source material, they offer contextual information about the nature of their transmission from China to Japan. They tell us… Continue reading