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June 2008

Cover news:
Indian Artist Wins the Third Artes Mundi Prize

 

Profile, Jerome Sans ad his role at UCCA Beijing. The Hidden Base of Borobudur exhibition in Leiden. Xu Beihong paintings at Singapore Art Museum. Interview with textile artist Yuken Teruya. What's happening in contemporary Iranian art. The new Peranakan Museum in Singapore. Bacttrian Treasures on show in Washington DC. Joseon ceramics at the Oriental Ceramic Museum in Osaka.  Exhibitions: Power & Glory, Court Arts of China's Mind Dynasty, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Muraqqa' Imperial Mughal albums, Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; From the Land of the Gods, Art of the Kathmandu Valleys, Rubin Museum, New York; Fashioning Kimono, Art Deco and Modernism in Japan, Philadephia Museum of Art; From Canton to Guangzhou, antique and contemporary photography, Birmingham Museum, UK; Beijing 2008, photography, China Institute, New York; Hokusai (1760-1849), Musee Guimet, Paris; Summer Olympia fair. Gallery shows in London and New York. Review Sotheby's Hong Kong Spring auctions.

Bactrian Treasures
PRESENT-DAY PERILS CONTINUE  to endanger Afghanistan’s rich cultural heritage while the rest of the world remains largely unaware of this ancient region’s historical significance. Her...
Singapore’s New Peranakan Museum
  PERANAKAN CULTURE IS one of Singapore’s most distinctive. Otherwise known as Babas and Nonyas, the Peranakans were early Chinese immigrants to the English Straits Settlements of Singapor...
Xu Beihong in Nanyang
  ALTHOUGH THE CHINESE painter Xu Beihong (1895-1953) came from a generation that was proficient in brush and ink, he was aware that it was a tradition gone stale by the late Qing (1644-1911). W...
Yuken Teruya
  YUKEN TERUYA'S ARTWORK occupies the space between opposite poles. Currently a resident of New York, Teruya was born in 1973 in a rural village on Okinawa, one of Japan’s southernmost...
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