Cover: Royal Burial Mounds Added to Heritage List. Profile: the artist Kim Yun Shin. The Great Mongol Shahnama, in Washington DC. Sensorium, Stories of Glass and Fragrance, in New York. The Asian and Islamic-world artists at this year’s Venice Biennale. Borrowed Landscapes, Japan in the British Country House. Luxury Objects from China, in Paris. The Vairocana Buddha in East Asia. The museum-led project, Salon Culture in Japan, making art, 1750-1900. The exhibition Asian Bronze at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Gold from Dragon City, in New York. The Art of the Horse in Ancient China. 50 Years: 50 Treasures, on show in Cologne. Lacquerware from East Asia, in Seoul. Exhibitions in Tokyo, London, San Diego, and Manila. Islamic Arts Diary.
In early modern Japan, cultural salons were creative spaces for people of all social levels to jointly pursue painting, poetry and other artistic endeavours, as serious but amateur practitioners. All these artists used a pen or art-name. Individuals were therefore… Continue reading
This exhibition looks at glass and fragrance in Asia through the millennia-long relationships between glass, perfumery, and the storage of scent – and the link between glass and fragrance in Asia. Presenting vessels from Ancient Egypt and Rome to those… Continue reading
This autumn, the Rijksmuseum is presenting 75 works spanning 4,000 years of Asian bronze art, Asian Bronzes, from statues of gods to objects for ritual and everyday use, with a focus on the forms and techniques that are often unique… Continue reading