December 2009
Cover news:
Prix Pictet Photographs Highlight Yangtse River
Profile: the Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso. Falnama, the Book of Omens on show in Washington DC. Professor Munakata: Manga visits the British Museum. Chinese architectural models from Beijing in Munich. Contemporary art from Iran in New York. Samurai auction reviews. Taoism in Northern Laos. The Mughal treasury of the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. Recent Asian painting acquisitions at the ROM, Toronto. Our annual book list 2009. Islamic Arts Diary. Calligrafitti at the Pacific Art Museum in California. Scholars’ Rocks at the Henry Moore Institute. Hong Kong auction reviews.
Chinese Architectural Models
A COLLECTION OF wooden architectural models from the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage in Beijing is being shown in Munich for the first time outside of China. Together with photographs, ar...
Falnama: The Book of Omens
WHEN SEEKING INSIGHT and guidance at moments of uncertainty, both courtiers and commoners of 16th and 17th-century Safavid Iran and Ottoman Turkey would consult the Falnama, a book of omens. T...
Splendour & Sacrifice: Taoism Of Northern Laos
THE YAO ARE a major hill tribe in Laos, also found in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam and along the Chinese frontier. A resilient people who migrated south from Yunnan some 250 years ago, their ...
