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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
September 2010
Archaeologists at Angkor: Photographic Archives from the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient
Archaeologists at Angkor: Photographic Archives from the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient
The sight of ancient ruins emerging from the jungle has always captured the imagination. When recorded in early black and white photographs these images, swathed in mystery, are even more evocative and nowhere more so than in the jungles of Cambodia at Angkor.
The lost city, submerged in tropical forest after its demise in the 15th century, remained almost impenetrable until 1860 when the French explorer Henri Mouhot, one of a number of early visitors, captured its magic in drawings and written descriptions. His posthumous diary was subsequently read out at the Royal Geographical Society and a new generation of travellers followed in his footsteps, including the first photographer in 1866, Scotsman John Thomson, and the colonising French. When Cambodia became part of Indochina in 1887, French scholars descended on the country to study and restore the vast ruins and temples that would eventually reinstate the country's heritage and become the jewel in the crown for France's achievements in its empire.
Oriental Ceramics From The Seikado Collection: Masterpieces Of Chinese Ceramics
Oriental Ceramics From The Seikado Collection: Masterpieces Of Chinese Ceramics
The exhibition, Oriental Ceramics from the Seikado Collection: Part 1 Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics at the Seikado Bunko Art Museum in Tokyo takes us on a panorama of ceramic achievement from the Tang (618-906) to the Qing (1644-1911). It features highlights from the Iwasaki family collection that were largely amassed from the 1880s to World War II. The Seikado Bunko’s founder, Baron Iwasaki Yanosuke (1851-1908) had initiated the holding with Ming (1368-1644) and Qing porcelain found in late 19th-century Meiji Japan. His son, Baron Iwasaki Koyata (1879-1945) diversified the collection with Chinese objects of exceptional quality reaching Taisho (1912-1926) and early Showa Japan (1926-1989). His selection of earthenware, stoneware and porcelain documented glazing techniques and surface decoration from the Tang onwards, enabling the collection as a whole to explore the Chinese ceramic tradition.
Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This exhibition of over 300 works, offers the visitor a journey through the heart of Arabia, orchestrated by photographs of the region’s landscapes. It takes the form of a series of stop overs in some of the peninsula’s extensive oases, which in ancient times were home to powerful states or which, beginning in the 7th century, became Islamic holy places. The 300 items chosen, most of which have never left their country of origin before, provide an original panorama of the different cultures that succeeded each other within the kingdom of Saudi Arabia from prehistoric times through the dawn of the modern world.
Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan
Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan
A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom: Early Photographs ofSikkim and Bhutan is the first exhibition of photographs by John Claude White,presented in original prints and large-scale reproductions from two importantalbums on view. White, a British government officer and civil engineer, spentmuch of his career stationed in places that one hundred years ago were, and toan extent still remain, shrouded in a certain veil of mystery: India, Nepal,Sikkim, Tibet and Bhutan.