October 2009
Cover news:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Reopens to the Public
Profile: the artist Shezad Dawood. Ceramics from the hen B Niewenhuys Collection on show in Shanghai. Southeast Asian photography. Maharaja: Splendour of India’s Royal Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The Power of Dogu at the British Museum, London. In the colour section: Our annual guide to the gallery shows, events and auctions for Asian Art in London 2009. London November auctions. Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma 1775-1954 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The Sacred Art of Bhutan on show in Paris. Lucarno Film Festival. Islamic Arts Diary. Gallery shows in Tokyo, Beijing, London and New York. Previews of the Japanese sales in October in New York. Listings.
Documentary Photograph: Erik Prasetya and Oscar Motuloh in Indonesia
STAKING HIS CASE for the art of photography in Indonesia, Firman Ichsan noted that there are many photographers who have used the medium as self-expression. Within the journalistic genre, the ...
International Film Festival Locarno 2009
THE 2009 EDITION of the international film festival in Locarno had a strong emphasis on films from Asia this year. The festival was the first to offer a broad retrospective on the world of man...
Profile: Shezad Dawood
WITH THE GROWING interest in contemporary art from Asia, it is astonishing to see how, within that specific field, our horizon and scope has grown immensely. While in the late1980s, contempora...
The Power of Dogu
DOGU, ABSTRACT CLAY figures with recognizably human or animal features, have a fascinating history in Japan, dating back thousands of years. These enigmatic figures have long captured ...
