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FEBRUARY 2012
A Fragile Heritage, China Counts its Lost Ruins
January 2012
A Chinese Conundrum: Hong Kong Sales Slow Down
NOVEMBER 2011
Hong Kong Autumn Sales: Reading the Mixed Messages
OCTOBER 2011
Museum der Kulturen Basel Opens After Refurbishment
September 2011
Cover: World Heritage List New Sites
JUNE 2011
Thai Border Clashes Continue Around Preah Vihear Temple
April 2008
Intimate Encounters: Indian Paintings from Australian Collections
Intimate Encounters: Indian Paintings from Australian Collections
The lavish palette that is 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 art. New and different styles of painting were woven into a native fabric rooted in tradition, caste, religion and culture. Intimate Encounters: Indian Paintings from Australian Collections at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, traces the path of Indian painting through the last 500 years, a legacy of distinct styles.
NS Harsha at Artes Mundi 3
NS Harsha at Artes Mundi 3
Major works by international emerging artists Lida Abdul, Vasco Araújo, Mircea Cantor, Dalziel and Scullion, N.S. Harsha, Abdoulaye Konaté, Susan Norrie and Rosângela Rennó are currently on show at the third Artes Mundi Exhibition at the National Museum in Cardiff, Wales. All nine artists are on the short list for the next Artes Mundi prize (worth £40,000), which will be announced on 24 April. This is the first time significant bodies of work will be shown in the UK by most of these artists and both Harsha and Konaté have created new works specifically for the exhibition.
Yosa Buson
Yosa Buson
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 the bunjin had to be well versed in the Chinese classics, calligraphy and poetry, painting was considered one of his accomplishments. The literati school of painting, bunjin-ga, also known as nan-ga, ‘southern school' of Chinese extraction, had a significant following.
The Ramayana Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic
The Ramayana Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic
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 time over 120 paintings from the British Library’s lavishly illustrated 17th-century manuscripts of the story from the volumes of Rana Jagat Singh of Mewar (1628-1652) will go on public display in its forthcoming summer exhibition, which opens in May and continues until 14 September.