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FEBRUARY 2012
A Fragile Heritage, China Counts its Lost Ruins
January 2012
A Chinese Conundrum: Hong Kong Sales Slow Down
NOVEMBER 2011
Hong Kong Autumn Sales: Reading the Mixed Messages
OCTOBER 2011
Museum der Kulturen Basel Opens After Refurbishment
September 2011
Cover: World Heritage List New Sites
JUNE 2011
Thai Border Clashes Continue Around Preah Vihear Temple
May 2006
Mountains & Streams: Classical Chinese Painting
Mountains & Streams: Classical Chinese Painting
THE NATIONAL GALLERY of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne is the oldest public institution of its kind in Australia. Established in 1861 as the Museum of Art, it was the first Australian museum to collect Asian art. Its Chinese holdings of mainly ceramics, bronzes and jades, assembled in the early 20th century, grew substantially in the interwar and postwar years. The exhibition, Mountains and Streams: Chinese Landscape Paintings from the Asian Collection, draws from important Yuan (1279-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) works and traces the development of the genre from the 14th century onwards.
Word into Art: Islamic Calligraphy
Word into Art: Islamic Calligraphy
THE BRITISH MUSEUM’S NEW exhibition, Word into Art, features contemporary art works by 75 artists from a variety of countries including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel as well as North Africa, Iran and Turkey. It is the first time that such a wide range of art by artists from the Islamic world has been exhibited in one location. The focus of the exhibition, as the name suggests, is on the different ways the artists engage and experiment with Arabic script.
Profile: Kim Sooja
Profile: Kim Sooja
KIM SOOJA CAME TO INTERNATIONAL FAME in the 1990s, following a PS1 residency in New York, which paved the way for one of her most famous pieces to date, Bottari Truck, a video that was subsequently shown in numerous exhibitions and biennales. Bottari Truck consisted of a truck loaded with bottari, the Korean word for bundle and travelled throughout Korea for 11 days.
The Voyages of Zheng He
The Voyages of Zheng He
ZHENG HE is considered one of the greatest Chinese navigators of all time. From the third year of the Yongle reign (1405) to the eighth year of the Xuande reign (1433) in the Ming dynasty, he led his squadrons of ships on seven voyages to the xiyang (Western Sea), a term used during the Ming dynasty for the seas and lands west of Kalimantan.