THE JAPANESE POTTER Hamanaka Gesson (b.1943, Kishiwada, Osaka), who is based in Hagi, western Honshu, is known as the ‘Master of Hagi pottery’. Hagi pottery have a 500 year-old Korean-inspired tradition which originally sustained the tea ceremony, and were crafted… Continue reading
IN THE CENTURY and a half that has passed since Utagawa Hiroshige’s death, his name has become synonymous with ukiyo-e print-making, to which he devoted his life. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 – a mere decade after Hiroshige’s demise –… Continue reading
THIS EXHIBITION, curated by Tomoko Nagakura, a curator and professor of Japanese art and currently a Research Fellow for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, could not have been possible without the gracious cooperation of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz by… Continue reading
IT HAS BEEN 24 years since the Idemitsu Museum has presented an exhibition on a similar theme, monogatari-e, and for this current show about 30 paintings in various formats have been chosen. 2014 was the commemorative 400th year of the… Continue reading
THE MUSEE GUIMET commemorates the 50th anniversary (1964-2014) of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the French Republic and the People’s Republic of China by hosting this monumental exhibition of Han-dynasty treasures. Over the last half century, scholarship of an… Continue reading
TRADITIONALLY, travel equated some level of affluence, in both East and West. The idea of travel for commerce is as old as man, with the Silk Road and Roman roads being prime examples. Travel for pleasure, however, began as a… Continue reading
THIS EXHIBITION OF some 60 Mughal jewelled and other objects from the private collection formed by Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Thani provides a glimpse into the evolving styles of the jewelled arts created in India from the Mughal period until… Continue reading
FROM HER STUDIO in central Bangkok contemporary artist Pinaree Sanpitak could hear the demonstrators on the streets just days before incumbent Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government was replaced by a military coup earlier this year. Sanpitak left the house swept… Continue reading
HELGA-MARIE NORDBY and Erland Mogard-Larsen first conceived the idea of SALT in 2010, while curating the Lofoten International Art Festival. Nomadic SALT was inspired by the Arctic Circle, and it will move in a similarly slow pattern to the surrounding… Continue reading
THE LONG-ANTICIPATED Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde (1924-2001) retrospective opened at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum on 24 October. Between both public and private collections, a total of 45 paintings and works on paper spanning 40 years of VS Gaitonde’s career are… Continue reading