THIS WELL-RECEIVED exhibition on contemporary Chinese ink art presents works 70 by 35 artists born in China. It explores the idea of China’s age-old habit of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models. How the past can be… Continue reading
THEY USED TO call pre-modern Korea ‘the Hermit Kingdom’. The name no longer applies, yet the country’s cultural and artistic traditions remain relatively unknown in the West. Hyunsoo Woo, The Maxine and Howard Lewis Associate Curator at Philadelphia Museum of… Continue reading
LOOKING AROUND the rich interiors of almost any of the palaces or grand houses of Europe, one invariably spots Chinese or Japanese porcelain objects that had originally been imported during the 17th and 18th centuries. Not that many it seems… Continue reading
Asian Art Newspaper looks at early Islamic silk textiles in this exhibition organised by the Cleveland Museum of Art. ‘NOW COME with me and cast your eye over the immense crowd of turbaned heads, wrapped in countless folds of the whitest… Continue reading
Canopies for the Goddess, mata no chandarvo, is the name created for this large-scale exhibition of illustrated Gujarat textiles from, India. These large-format textiles mark sacred places used specifically for the veneration of goddesses. These printed or painted cloths tell the… Continue reading
Ikat is a style of weaving that uses a resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft before the threads are woven to create a pattern or design. The Malay-Indonesian term ikat, used in the West to describe… Continue reading
AS ONE OF the first Korean artists to gain exposure abroad following the fall of the country’s military dictatorship, Lee Bul (b. 1964 in Seoul) has been a seminal figure not only in her native Korea, but also in the… Continue reading
JAKKAI SIRIBUTR (b 1969, Bangkok) is an unconventional, contemporary Thai textile artist, who left Thailand to study in the US when he was fifteen. After graduating in 1992, with a Textile/Fine Arts degree at Indiana University, Bloomington, he continued his… Continue reading
THE MUSEUM OF Fine Arts in Boston has recently received a transformative gift of over 90 pieces spanning the late 20th and 21st centuries, given by collectors Stanley and Mary Ann Snider from their Japanese art. Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo… Continue reading
THE FIRST-EVER exhibition in the West to focus exclusively on the art of Silla is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Co-organised with and drawn from the holdings of the National Museum of Korea and Gyeongju National… Continue reading