November 2009
Cover news:
Chinese Market Maintains Strength at New York Sales
Profile: the photographer and artist Atta Kim. The new Nezu Museum reopens in Tokyo. Golden Gates, contemporary art from the Middle East on show in Paris. Indonesian artist Arahmaiani’s work in Singapore. Art of the Samurai: the new blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Roaring Tiger Leaping Carp, animal symbolism in Chinese traditional painting. The Flowering of Goan Art. The artist Hong Zhu An. East Asian contemporary photography at SFMOMA, San Francisco. Islamic Arts Diary. New York fall auction reviews. Hong Kong auction previews.
Asian Photography
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) currently has two exhibitions on photography: The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography and Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea. The exhibi...
The Flowering of Goan Art
IN INDIAN ART, Shri Aurobindo once wrote that the creative force comes from ‘a spiritual and psychic vision; the emphasis of the physical is secondary and always deliberately lightened s...
The New Nezu Museum
THE NEW Nezu Museum in Tokyo re-opened on 7 October after a three and a half-year renovation. Replacing the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts is an entirely contemporary structure designed by ...
