The Smithsonian Institution’s latest exhibition explores objects donated to the National Museum of Korea and National Museum of Contemporary Art from the collection of the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, which his family gifted to the Korean nation in 2021. Korean… Continue reading
An exhibition currently showing at the Rietberg Museum in Switzerland aims to paint a different picture of the country by presenting a wholly new perspective on Mongolia’s 2,000-year history, partly thanks to cutting-edge archaeological research. Some 200 works are included in the… Continue reading
A retrospective exhibition examining the work of Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929-2021), one of the most prominent figures in Korean contemporary art, offers a comprehensive look into the artist’s creative vision. It re-examines his body of work within the historical and art-historical… Continue reading
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale is currently showing Textured Stories: The Chirimen Books of Modern Japan, The exhibition explores Japanese crêpe-paper books, known as chirimen-bon, which feature handmade pages filled with stories drawn chiefly from Japanese fairy… Continue reading
In the ancient world, the kingdom of Silla (57 BC–AD 935) on the Korean peninsula was renowned as a country of gold. Silla was one of three kingdoms on the Korean peninsula that rose to prominence in the late 4th… Continue reading
Tea is nothing but the following: first boil the water. Then add the tea. And drink it. That is everything you have to know.’ These seemingly simple instructions by tea master Sen no Rikyu (1522–1591) refer to both the formalised… Continue reading
An exhibition of Indian textiles at the Abegg-Stiftung in Switzerland not only shows the beauty of the fabric produced during the Mughal period (1526-1858) but also explores their uses and the motifs used in the designs that have now become… Continue reading
Celebrating the rich textile heritage of Indonesia, this exhibition explores the ancient inter-island links found in this vast maritime region. Textiles and textile trade have a long and continuous history in Southeast Asia, with these cloths showing the changing outside… Continue reading
In Cologne, a new exhibition chronologically traces the artistic and technical development of blue and white porcelain and its trading history from the early phase in the Ming dynasty to its decline in the 17th century. In addition to the… Continue reading
Surimono are a distinctive form of Japanese colour woodblock prints that emerged between the late 18th and mid-19th centuries. Surimono literally translates to ‘printed things’ or ‘something rubbed’ (referring to the way a Japanese print is made by rubbing paper… Continue reading