Cover: Netherlands Returns Colonial Objects to Asia. Profile: the Vietnamese painter Huong Dodinh. Transformation: Modern Japanese Art in Honolulu. The Photographer and The Painter, 19th-century female artists in Ceylon. China’s Hidden Century, in London. The photographer Farah Al Qasimi. Tree and Serpent, early Buddhhist art from India, in New York. Lyricism in Chinese painting. The Waiting Gardens of the Noarth, a new work by Michael Rakowitz. From the Archives: Falnama, Book of Omens. Kim Beon in Seoul and AP Santhanaraj in London. Experiemental Art in Korea. Exhibitions in Kyoto, Ohio, and Udaipur. Gallery shows: Yoshitomo Nara, Jungin Lee, and Kazakh art. Auction previews. Islamic Arts Diary.
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