January 2010
Cover news:
New Galleries for Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver
Profile: the photographer and painter Liu Bolin. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on show in London. The Buddhist Archive of Photography in Luang Prabang, Laos. Japanese contemporary crafts: the silversmith Hiroshi Suzuki and glassmaker Ritsue Mishima. The Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum. Ceramics at the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo. Japanese tea bowls (chawan) at MAK, Vienna. Indian Contemporary Art at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Cambodian documentary photography. Islamic Arts Diary. Southeast Asian painting results. Exhibitions: Japanese Cloisonne in Baltimore; Saishiko textiles in York, UK; and Cornucopia: Ceramics from southern Japan at the Sackler in Washington DC.
Beyond Golden Clouds
FIVE CENTURIES OF Japanese Screens: Masterpieces from the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago, is a major exhibition that features rarely seen important Japanese screens fr...
Hiroshi Suzuki
SILVER WAVES is a major exhibition in London of metalwork by the silversmith Hiroshi Suzuki. Suzuki is know for his wonderfully sensual silver vessels – the surfaces of which have ...
Miniature Sculptures of Adornment
UNTIL THE MODERN period, Japan seems to have been almost unique in having no tradition of jewellery apart from stone beads and gold accessories found in burial mounds dating from the last few ...
The Elegance of Vessels: Masterpieces Of Japanese Ceramics
THE JAPANESE CERAMIC tradition is its most diverse, with a rare vigour that is the result of a unique development. Influences from China have reached Japan throughout history and two aesthetic...
