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April 2010

Cover news:
: New Islamic Gallery Opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts

 

Profile: Chinese painter Yun-Fei Ji. Japan’s Private Museums: the Fujita Museum of Art in Tokyo. Telling Images of China, Chinese painting at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. Kantha: the Embroidered Quilts of Bengal.  Japanese Wa glass on show in Tokyo. Lifestyles of the Han Nobility at the Hong Kong Museum of History. Strolling through Isfahan, 17th-century paintings from Safavid Iran. Contemporary Pakistani Miniature Paintings. Indian artist Bharti Kher’s new show in London. Hong Kong spring auction previews. Islamic Arts Diary. Listings. Filltering Beauty: Chinese Accessories a new permament exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Kenji Yoshida (1924-2009), a celebration of life, Japanese paintings at the October Gallery, London. Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art, experiments in the public sphere in postwar Japan (1950-1970). Facing East, the Frank Cohen Collection of Contemporary art, on show in Manchester, UK. FX Harsono on show at the Singapore Museum of Art.

Bharti Kher
  BHARTI KHER HAS very quickly become one of the leading female protagonists of the new generation of contemporary Indian artists and can hold her own internationally, having broken upon th...
Kantha : Embroidered Quilts of Bengal
  BENGAL (modern Bangladesh and eastern India) is a lush region of lotus pools, fish-filled rivers, and tiger-haunted forests punctuated by rice and banana fields, rural villages, and teeming ci...
Legends of Luxury and Elegance: Lifestyles of the Han Nobility
  STRETCHING OVER four centuries, the Han is regarded as a golden age in Chinese history. Divided into the Western Han and the Eastern Han, both of which were powerful empires, it was the longes...
Strolling Through Isfahan
  IN THE 16th century, the Safavids created a remarkable Persian dynasty (1501-1722) that enjoyed a strong revival of art and architecture. These achievements were identified with its fifth rule...
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