Cover: Heritage Artefacts Return to the National Museum Kabul

Profile: the installation artist Chiharu Shiota. The Sigg Collection, recently donated to a HK museum and Go Figure: Contemporary Chinese Portraiture in Sydney. Gold from the Philippines at the Ayala Museum, Makati City. White Ceramics of the East at the Idemitsu Museum in Tokyo. The new Islamic Galleries at the Louvre open in Paris this month. Round-up of museum exhibitions and fairs in Paris this September. Indian temple jewellery.  Guide to New York Fall Asia Week, including New York gallery shows, museum and institution exhibitions, and the auctions previews. HK auctions previews and HK fairs. The ancient art and culture of Kazakhstan. The blossoming of Ottoman art in textiles. Encounter: the Royal Academy in Asia, opens in Singapore; Passion for Porcelain, the British Museum and V&A’s joint exhibition in Beijing; Bronze exhibition, in London. Islamic Arts Diary