May 2008
Cover news:
World Record for Japanese Work of Art in New York
Interview with Chinese sculptor Jiao XIngtao. China Design Now exhibition at the V&A London. Mao Badges at the British Museum. Artist, Forger, Collector, Zhang Daqian's work on show at the MFA, Boston. Chinese Whispers traces the history of Chinoiserie from 1650 60 1930 at Brighton Museum, UK. National treasures from Yakushi-ji Temple, Nara, Japan at Tokyo National Museum. New York March Asia Week auction reviews. Auction previews Singapore. Brussels Oriental Art Fair preview. Gallery Shows: Xu Bing, London; Gao Xingjian, Hong Kong, Xue Song; New York. Museum reviews: Aurel Stein, Hong Kong; Chen Shaoxiong & Qiu Anxiong, Manchester; Yellow Moutain, Washington; Chinese woodblcok prints, Chicago.
China Design Now
THE V&A’s SPRING exhibition, China Design Now, is a brave move by the museum to move the old-fashioned, general perception of China from people in Mao suits manufacturing cheap ...
Chinese Whispers Chinoiserie In Britain 1650-1930
THE FASCINATION BETWEEN China and the West has been well documented. This exhibition traces the history of chinoiserie in Britain and its changing style over the centuries. Chinese Whispers is...
National Treasures from Yakushi-ji Temple
This major new exhibition at Tokyo National Museum features revered statues, paintings, and other objects from the Yakushi-ji Temple one of the seven great temples of Nara, and the headquarter...
Zhang Daqian
THE ENIGMATIC, 20th-century Chinese painter, Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) could paint at will and in complete mastery all the great Chinese stylistic genres. His prodigious talent was matche...
