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Asian Art Newspaper September 2008
Cover News: Tulou Earthen Houses, China, on World Heritage List.
June 2008
Indian Artist Wins the Third Artes Mundi Prize
May 2008
World Record for Japanese Work of Art in New York
APRIL 2008
New Asian Sites Added to World Heritage Fund List
March 2008
Fire Destroys National Treasure in Seoul, Korea
February 2008
South Asian Galleries Open at Royal Ontario Museum
January 2008
Yoshioka Sachio: Master Dyer
Yoshioka Sachio: Master Dyer
Yoshioka Sachio (b.1946, Kyoto) belongs to the fifth generation of master dyers and weavers founded in the 1840s by Yoshioka Jinnosuke in Kyoto. From the beginning of the 20th century, chemical dyes have been increasingly used in the textile industry and the Yoshioka family are committed to promoting the more natural and traditional methods of dyeing.
On The Nalanda Trail
On The Nalanda Trail
On the Nalanda Trail: Buddhism in India, China & Southeast Asia, a new exhibition about the diffusion of Buddhism in Asia, opened at Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum last November. Despite having been put together in a little under a year, the show is undoubtedly one of the museum’s most ambitious art historical endeavors to date.
Stage Idols: The Art of Kabuki
Stage Idols: The Art of Kabuki
Kabuki theatre was one of the most dynamic art forms to emerge from Japan’s ‘floating world’, the extraordinary pleasure districts that thrived in major Japanese cities during the 18th and 19th centuries. With its dramatic storylines, lavish costumes and celebrity actors, kabuki was the ideal subject for Japanese print designers.
Kotohira Shrine
Kotohira Shrine
The Kotohira Shrine – popularly known as Konpira-San – is well-known as one of the main religious centres on the island of Shikoku. Until three bridges were built during recent decades to connect the mainland and ruin the previously magical scenery, the island was remote and mysterious, having a Shangri-la image where time seemed to move at a different pace.