Moroccan Paintings 1950-2020

Farid Belkahia, Warriors

This sweeping survey of the culture of Morocco and Moroccan paintings from the 1950s to the present day is a unique collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art – Qatar Museums and Qatar Foundation. Moroccan Trilogy 1950-2020 features more… Continue reading

STORIES FROM STORAGE

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A creative response to the Covid-19 pandemic from the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has allowed curators to discuss some of their favourite objects that are not normally on view to create Stories From Storage. When the pandemic upended our… Continue reading

THE SILK ROAD: PHOTOGRAPHS

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The Silk Road is the name given to the numerous trading routes that connected China and the West and was first established during the days of the Roman Empire. For several centuries, it facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, religions… Continue reading

Epic Iran: Persian Art in London

This exhibition, Epic Iran, which should have opened in February, is now scheduled to open in mid-May. It is on a grand scale – aiming to explore 5,000 years of Iranian art, design and culture, bringing together over 300 objects… Continue reading

BURMESE MODERN ART

The Centre Pompidou in Paris has organised the first major exhibition of Burmese Modern Art by Bagyi Aung Soe (1923-1990), who was renowned for his modernistic, semi-abstract art and considered one of Myanmar’s most prolific modern artists. A selection of… Continue reading

The Portuguese in Asia: Encompassing the Globe

Portugal was the first European nation to build an extensive commercial empire reaching eastward to Africa and Brazil and westward, through the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, to India, China, Southeast Asia and Japan. Here, Asian Art Newspaper explores the… Continue reading

JAPANESE KABUKI PRINTS

Enter the world of Japanese Kabuki prints and you arrive at the floating world, a place of theatres, tea houses, and the pleasure quarters of geishas and courtesans in the great cities of Edo (Tokyo), Osaka, and Kyoto. It is… Continue reading

Xue Song

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Later this year, Chinese mixed media artist Xue Song celebrates 20 years working in studios at Shanghai’s M50, the contemporary art hub located at 50 Moganshan Road, a few kilometres west of central Shanghai. Built in the 1930s, the buildings… Continue reading

The Ramayana and Sri Lanka

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Asian Art Newspaper discovers the places in Sri Lanka believed to have been connected to the story of The Ramayana, the epic tale of Rama and Sita. The Ramayana, or Rama’s Journey, is India’s first great Sanskrit poem, composed by… Continue reading

The Kimono in Japanese Prints

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The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design is the first show by the Worcester Art Museum devoted to examining the kimono as a major source of inspiration, style, and experimentation in Japanese prints, from the Edo (1603-1868) to the… Continue reading