THE CHALLENGE FACING every curator in charge of the Venice Biennale before starting his selection process is to find a theme that will connect the various works of art. This year, the 2013 curator, Massimiliano Gioni, from the New Museum… Continue reading
IN 1930, the Toledo Museum of Art played a critical role in popularizing early modern Japanese prints in North America by organising the largest exhibition ever devoted to the movement and producing an authoritative and important catalogue to accompany it… Continue reading
This is the first exhibition at the Met to explore the international transmittal of design from the 16th to the early 19th century through the medium of textiles. While previous studies have focused on this story from the viewpoint of… Continue reading
ON 6 SEPTEMBER, the first large-scale exhibition of Iranian Modern Art in the United States will take over two floors at the Asia Society in New York. While the exhibition focuses on the artistic period just preceding political revolution, featuring… Continue reading
The Chinese paintings currently conserved in Japanese collections reflect more than a thousand years of connoisseurship in that country. A primary source material, they offer contextual information about the nature of their transmission from China to Japan. They tell us… Continue reading
TO COINCIDE WITH the flurry of Indian activity that has bled across the cultural landscape in London currently, an exhibition opens at Whitechapel Gallery that concentrates on the history and majestic of the photographic image from three countries that were… Continue reading
WHEN THE Turkish Room (Türckische Cammer) opens in Dresden’s Residenzschloss this month, it will have created an extraordinary space to display the permanent oriental collection in the former palace of the electors of Saxony. Furthermore, the collection has not been… Continue reading
AN EXHIBITION AT the National Portrait Gallery in London opens in March and aims to trace the history of the Indian portrait over three centuries, from the Mughals to the Raj. Bringing together 60 works from international public and private… Continue reading
RU WARE IS the most celebrated of Northern Song (960-1127) ceramics. These utensils were made exclusively for the court and were ranked among the Ding, Jun, Guan and Ge as the ‘five classic wares’ of the Song dynasty (960-1279). They… Continue reading
THE ENIGMATIC 20th-century Chinese painter, Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) could paint at will and in complete mastery all the great Chinese stylistic genres. His prodigious talent was matched by an unrelenting passion and enormous self-discipline. Although Zhang studied Chinese painting by… Continue reading