IN 1968, AMID an economic boom, many in Japan registered widespread discontent over social inequalities. At the same time, the country was roiled by protests against the Vietnam War and the upcoming renewal of a treaty extending American occupation. This exhibition, which includes Japanese… Continue reading
MUCH OF Ai Weiwei’s extraordinary life is already common knowledge. His father, Ai Qing, is considered to be one of China’s greatest modern poets. Denounced as a dissident during Chairman Mao’s Anti-Rightist campaign of the 1950s, Ai Qing moved with… Continue reading
The inspiration for this major exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art was the December 2013 acquisition of works from the Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection of Mughal and Deccan Paintings.… Continue reading
The Institut du Monde Arabe has designed a wonderful exhibition in five parts that retraces the history of gardens of the Orient from earliest antiquity to the most contemporary innovations, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indian subcontinent. The intstitue… Continue reading
On my visit to Huang Rui’s Huantie studio on the northern outskirts of Beijing late last year, the artist without whom contemporary art in China would not be what it is today made a startling revelation. ‘I am thinking about… Continue reading
In January 2016, University of Florida’s resident museum – The Samuel P Harn Museum of Art – completed the restoration of seven paintings by the prolific Indian artist Jamini Roy. A US$50,000 grant award from the E Rhodes and Leona… Continue reading
Every year at Asian Art Newspaper we produce a survey of the best art, reference, and fiction books published during the year. Here’s our choice of the Best Asian Art Books 2015. CHINA Silent Poetry: Chinese Paintings from the Collection… Continue reading
THE PERMANENT MISSION of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations (UN) is hosting Our Mother’s House a showcase of works by the Asiri women of mountainous Rijal Alma, Saudi Arabia. Initially presented from 16 to 26 November, in conjunction with… Continue reading
TO FIND the true spirit of mankind in the raw, there are few better destinations than New Guinea. One of the best-known inquirers into the art of the region was a scion of the Rockefeller family whose research ended in… Continue reading
SUNJEEV SAHOTA STUNNED readers with Ours Are the Streets, his debut novel about the gradual radicalisation of Imtiaz Raina, a Sheffield-born secularised Muslim, and again with his latest offering, The Year of the Runaways, which delves unflinchingly into the thorny… Continue reading