THE LAVISH PALETTE in the history of Indian painting reflects the mingling of many forces on the subcontinent throughout history. As wave upon wave of conquerors swept across India, the encounters between victor and vanquished profoundly influenced the landscape of… Continue reading
MAJOR WORKS BY international emerging artists Lida Abdul, Vasco Araújo, Mircea Cantor, Dalziel and Scullion, NS Harsha, Abdoulaye Konaté, Susan Norrie and Rosângela Rennó are currently on show at the third Artes Mundi Exhibition at the National Museum in Cardiff,… Continue reading
The Ramayana, one of the world’s most enduring stories, is considered to be fundamental to the art and culture of India and Southeast Asia and is still regularly performed in dance, drama and shadow-puppet theatres around the world. For the first… Continue reading
In 18th-century Edo Japan, the study of the Chinese classics was advocated by the Tokugawa shogunate and led to renewed interest in late Ming literary culture. One result was the development of the bunjin, gentleman-scholar, after the Chinese wenren. While… Continue reading
SELDOM DOES AN artist meld social consciousness and graphic sensibility with the adroitness of Taiwan’s Chen Chieh-jen. While Chen’s work deals with such issues as the economic and social dislocations of modern life and man’s inhumanity to man, it does… Continue reading
SAIGYO HOSHI, ‘Monk Saigyo’, ranks among the greatest of Japanese poets. Born an artistocrat in Heian-kyo, presentday Kyoto, Sato Norikiyo was the scion of a military family who became an attendant to the emperor Toba. He lived almost 1,000 years… Continue reading
THIS EXHIBITION IS in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Japanese Art Society of America, formerly the Ukiyo-e Society of America. Like the Asia Society, the Japan Society, the Korea Society and the Rubin Museum of Art, JASA’s existence… Continue reading
FOLLOWING FOUR YEARS of intense preparation, the exhibition Masterpieces from the Ganges Delta: Collections from the Bangladesh Museums was scheduled to open at the Musée Guimet in early January, but now will only reach its audience through its magnificent catalogue. Less than… Continue reading
THIS IS A highly important exhibition because it is the first in the United States devoted to the Buddhist arts of Bhutan. With the exception of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, there is almost no Bhutanese art… Continue reading
FOR A LONG time the term, ‘Swatow’ has been applied to a variety of Chinese export ceramics, including those from the 16th and 17th centuries. They were widely believed to come from Shantou, the Guangdong port after which they were… Continue reading