ASIAN ART

The Asian Art Newspaper was launched in November 1997 and, in 2011, keeps true to its original remit: offering a snapshot of what's happening in the world of Asian and Islamic art around the globe. Our world is truly international - East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian as well as Himalayan arts, combined with coverage from Sydney to Shanghai and from New York to London. In September 2010 the newspaper went full colour throughout the edition.

News is important to us, as are profiles of people who make the news. Each month we include an interview with an artist, as well as covering all the major international exhibitions, auctions, art fairs and other events, to keep you up to date. We also include the performing arts, film and literature to link the past with the future. We also have a dedicated page to the arts of the Islamic world: Islamic Arts Diary that includes exhibitions, gallery shows, auctions, books and general news.

Each year we produce special guides within the newspaper that cover the main Asia weeks around the world - New York, London, Hong Kong and Paris - to help you easily find where to go and what to see. We also have our eye on emerging markets and attend art fairs around the world, including USA, UK, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Turkey. Asian Art guides outside of the major Asian art weeks have become part of the newspaper's annual output: a guide to museums, Asian art and exhibition on West Coast US Guide, published each February and, in December, our annual good-book/good-read reviews of the year.

Not only do we review the major exhibitions around the world, but also include the smaller but no less important ones (just in case you want to visit or get the catalogue). Auctions, art markets and fairs are found at the back of the newspaper along with a comprehensive listings page, which includes conference, lecture and film information.

And if you just want a good read, try one of our feature stories…

Our website updates monthly and offers you archives, back issues, subscriptions, single issues as well as our current guides.

We also produce apps for iPhone - Asian Art Newspaper New York directory (updated each February for March Asia Week) and Asian Art in London (updated in early October each year). The apps will be produced for Android phones (Blackberry) from February 2011. We are also working on an iPad/Kindle edition of the newspaper.

A year of reading the ASIAN ART NEWSPAPER will provide you with a different editorial focus every month ...

January we cover Japanese art and look at the year ahead

February brings you reports on US Fairs, as well as our pull-out guide to the museums and exhibitions on the West Coast of America.Â

March gives you comprehensive coverage of New York Asia Week in the form of our pull-out guide, which features a map of dealers, fairs, auction houses, societies and institutions and all the info to help you make the most of this action-packed period in New York

April features stories on the arts of South Asia and the Himalayas

May brings you a focus on the arts of China - both ancient and contemporary, and a focus on contemporary art

June - our summer issue - focuses on events during June, July and August - with special attention to Europe

No issues July or August

September kicks off with the autumn guide to the Asian art week in New York and looks at what's to come around the world in the autumn. September is usually the issue we include our guide to events in Paris

October includes our pull-out, colour guide to Asian Art in London, which is usually takes place in the first week of Novemeber

November we turn our attention to contemporary art in all its formsÂ

December is the time for our roundup of the best books published during the year - from reference, history, biography, fiction, exhibition catalogues, miscellaneous and audio books. Textiles also feature during this issue

Sarah Callaghan, Editor/Publisher