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June 2009

Cover news:
Latest Clarification Update on US Chinese Restrictions

 

Profile: Tehching Hsieh. Light of the Suffis in Brooklyn, New York. Post-Second World War photography in Southeast Asia. Islamic art at this year’s Venice Biennale. The new Buddhist Galleries at the V&A London. Art as a Message in Asia and Europe, 1500-1700, in Vienna. Garden and Cosmos, royal court paintings from Jodhpur at the British Museum. London. South Indian dance masks on show in Zurich. Modern Metropolis, the rise of two cities – Shanghai and Hong Kong, in Hong Kong. Silk Stories, the Jan Dees collection of kimonos in Rotterdam. Discovering Ganesha  at Peabody Essex Museum; Salem. Meiji. Japan around 1900 at MAK, Vienna; Of Snow, Gold and Sky Blue at the Guimet, Paris.  Ai Wei Wei. According to What? At the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscos Kremlin, at the Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; Strike a Pose! The Human Form in Japanese Art at the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach, Florida; Treasures from the Ise Shrine at Tokyo National Museum;  Kazakh Craftswomen of Mongolia’s Rich Cradle, at SOAS, London. Art of Esoteric Buddhism at the Museum for East Asian Art, Cologne. Fairs in London and New Delhi. Islamic Arts Diary. Hong Kong Spring sales reviews.

Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
  GARDEN AND COSMOS: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur is an opportunity for the public in London to view this exhibition from the US. It explores Indian royal court painting ranging in date from t...
Post-Second World War Photography in Southeast Asia
  IT IS A COMMON assumption that there were few local art photographers in Southeast Asia during the post-WWII era. If we take the notion of ‘art’ to be what we understand today as &...
The art of Buddhist Sculpture
  THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM have recently opened their new Buddhist Galleries. It is a very welcome new addition to the museum, as it allows the visitor to see a variety of Buddhist works o...
Venice Biennale 2009
  VENICE ASSUMES its old role as a centre point between West and Middle East at this year’s Biennale. For centuries, Venice was the gateway of Islamic culture into Europe. Spain may have b...
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