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Asia Week New York he 2013 edition of Asia Week New York (AWNY) will host 43 participating dealers, the largest showing yet, with eighteen Tnewcomers to the fair. Beginning on Friday 15 March with a reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, nine days of events will include lectures and discussions at major arts institutions, coinciding with several auction series. For more information, see www.asiaweekny.com AWNY Galleries J. J. Lally Zetterquist ‘Song Dynasty Ceramics: Eric Zetterquist’s The Ronald W. Longsdorf exhibition ‘Jizhou Collection’ comprises Ceramics: Song-Yuan vessels from the period Dynasties’ centres on these considered to be the distinctive wares of the ‘golden age’ of Chinese Northern Song to the Yuan ceramics production, dynasty, with thirty such including examples vessels that have been of Jun ware, green- assembled over 25 years. glazed stoneware, and A key example is a pair of Meiping Qingbai porcelain from baluster altar vases with Pair of vases China, Jin/Yuan dynasty, China, Southern Song dynasty to Yuan 12th/13th century Jingdezhen. (15 March-13 painted decoration. (16-23 dynasty, 13th/14th century Jun ware April; 41 East 57th Street, March; 3 East 66th Street, Stoneware Height 21 cm 14/F; www.jjlally.com) 1B; www.zetterquist.com) Heights 15 cm and 15.5 cm M. Sutherland China 2000 Showcasing abstract and Among the ‘Recent semi-abstract works, Acquisitions and ‘Chinese Abstraction Selections from the Now’ includes collages by Gallery Collection’, a Liang Quan and oils by particular focus is on Zhu Jinshi, and abstracted scholar’s rocks and landscapes by Jia Youfu other scholar’s objects, and Hai Tao.(18-23 as well as paintings and March/open house 16-17 calligraphy. (177 East 87th March; 55 East 80th street, Street, Suite 601; www. Detail of Nimble Peaks 2/F; www.artnet.com/ china2000fineart.com) Detail of a scholar’s rock By Hai Tao (b. 1959), 2006 China, 19th century Ink and gold pigment on xuan paper msutherland.html) Limestone rock with hongmu base Height 40 cm, width 85.5 cm Height 108.6 cm, width 47 cm, depth 27.3 cm Wei Asian Arts Carole Davenport Wei’s exhibition ‘Devotion The exhibition ‘Present and Protection’ comprises Meets Past: Koichiro a selection of miniature Kurita Platinum Prints’ thangka paintings from features photographs Buriatia and Mongolia. by the Japanese artist, Also on view are Chinese accompanied by Japanese works of art, Buddhist and Chinese works of sculpture and scholar’s art from various periods objects. (15-23 March; chosen to complement the Trinity House Paintings, images. (15-24 March; Detail of a bodhisattva 24 East 64th Street, 2/F; Leigh More Fine Arts, 22 Fudo Myo-o China, 13th/14th century Japan, 14th century Bronze [email protected]) East 80th Street, 5th floor; Wood, gesso, mineral pigments, Height 38.7 cm www.caroledavenport. lacquer and gold decoration com) Height 41.9 cm 169 Flying Cranes Hiroshi Yanagi The gallery will be Japanese works on view displaying recent range from the Kofun acquisitions of Japanese to the Meiji period (4th- works of art from the 19th century). Of note is 19th century. (15 March-1 a handscroll attributed May; The Manhattan Art to Sumiyoshi Gukei & Antiques Center, 1050 portraying processions of Second Avenue; www. the Gion Festival, and a flyingcranesantiques.com) hinoki wood sculpture of Kichijoten from the Heian Detail of okimono Tiered food box and cover Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) period. (13-23 March; Japan, Edo period, 18th century Ivory and boxwood with mother-of-pearl Arader Galleries, 1016 Ceramic with overglaze enamel decoration and gilt bronze decoration Madison Avenue, 2/F; Height 17.5 cm, width 12 cm, Height 21.6 cm, length 43.2 cm diameter 10 cm www.h-yanagi.com) (Also affiliated to JADA.) Kaikodo Lesley Kehoe In their ‘Welcoming ‘Deconstructing Tradition: the Spring’ exhibition, Contemporary Japan’ is Kaikodo are showing a an exhibition comprising broad range of artworks the works of screen from China, Korea and maker Maio Motoko and Japan. These include lacquer artist Unryuan paintings ranging from the Kitamura Tatsuo. These 12th century to the modern contemporary artists period and ceramics are represented at from the Neolithic period such institutions as the Covered box to the 18th century. Detail of Koku, Fleeting Moments Ryukyu Islands, 18th century Philadelphia Museum of By Maio Motoko (b. 1948), 2011 Lacquerware with mother-of-pearl inlay Textiles, lacquerware Art, and London’s V&A. Pair of screens, one eight-panel Length 24.2 cm, height 15.2 cm, and metalware are also (15-23 March, Fuller and one five-panel, antique textile depth 14.5 cm fragments and pigments represented. (15 March-16 Building, 41 East 57th 254 x 183 cm; 258 x 183 cm April; 74 East 79th Street; Street, 5/F; www.kehoe. www.kaikodo.com) com.au) Joan B. Mirviss BachmannEckenstein ‘Seven Sages of Ceramics: Japanese painting, Modern Japanese Masters’ calligraphy and objects is an exhibition of the spanning several centuries works of seven 20th are encompassed by the century artists, all of Swiss dealers’ show, whom are celebrated ‘Japanese Art: Pre-Modern in Japan but largely and Beyond’. A particular overlooked in the West. strength of the display is They are Arakawa Toyozō; hanging scrolls of the Edo, Ishiguro Munemaro; Showa, Taisho and Meiji Vessel Kamoda Shōji; Kawakita periods. (16-21 March; Detail of hanging scroll By Kamoda Shoji (1933-83), 1976 By Fukuda Kodojin (1865-1944) Stoneware with glaze Handeishi; Kitaōji Gallery Schlesinger, 24 Ink and colour on silk Height 26 cm, diameter 26.5 cm Rosanjin; Okabe Mineo East 73rd Street, 2/F) Height 27.5 cm, width 43.9 cm and Yagi Kazuo. (14 (Also affiliated to JADA.) March-26 April; 39 East 78th Street, 4/F; www. mirviss.com) 170 Andrew Kahane Koo New York Selected Song period ‘Objects Revered: Korean ceramics include two Art from American carved Ding ware ivory Collections’ comprises glazed dishes and three works assembled by Jun ware examples. foreign collectors Typifying the refined who lived in Korea. vessels of the Northern One sculpture, a gilt- Song is a Jun ware pale lacquered wood seated blue glazed bud-form jar. Buddha of the Joseon (16-19 March; The Mark dynasty, still contains the Jar Buddha China, Northern Song dynasty, Hotel, 25 East 77th Street; original consecrated sutra Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th/19th century 11th/12th century [email protected]) scripture pages placed Wood with gilt lacquer decoration Jun ware inside its body according Height 38.7 cm Height 8.3 cm to devotional ritual. (13-23 March; Mark Murray Gallery, 39 East 72nd Street, 5/F; www. koonewyork.com) Carlo Cristi Kapoor Galleries Among the Himalayan, ‘Cherished Gods’ is the Indian and Central Asian title of Kapoor’s show, works of art on view which features Indian are a bronze Nepalese miniature paintings and Prajnaparamita, textiles, Himalayan bronzes. One early thangkas, and highlight is a painting from Central Asian gold and the Basohli Court, from silver objects. (15-23 the collection of Alice March; Arader Galleries, Boner. (13-30 March; 1016 Madison Avenue, 1015 Madison Avenue; Detail of kaftan Detail of Krishna Lifting Mt Govardhan Central Asia, 11th/12th century 4/F; www.asianart.com/ www.kapoorgalleries. India, Basohli, c. 1750 Polychrome silk carlocristi) com) Gouache and gold on paper Length 130 cm Height 16 cm, width 25 cm Carlton Rochell Oliver Forge and Comprising this year’s Brendan Lynch show are 25 sculptures The exhibition ‘Indian and paintings from Painting 1580-1850’ India, Tibet, Nepal and presents 35 miniature Cambodia, from a date paintings from the royal range spanning the 2nd to courts of India, spanning the 18th century. Buddhist that period. The works on imagery is a particular view include both Hindu focus of the display, and Muslim images, as including Khmer copper well as portraits of Indian Detail of Bhimaratha Jatra statues, Gandharan schist aristocratic and royal Detail of Vishnu and Lakshmi flying Nepal, dated 1755 through a landscape on Distemper on cloth figures, and Nepalese personages. (15-22 March; the wings of Garuda Height 94 cm, width 71.1 cm thangkas. (14-22 March; 9 East 82nd Street, Suite India, Bikaner, 1675-1700 121 East 71st Street; www. 1A; www.forgelynch.com) Opaque watercolour with gold on paper Height 20.5 cm, width 14 cm carltonrochell.com) 171 Nayef Homsi Christophe Hioco The protective and heroic While the main focus qualities of ferocious is on Hindu, Buddhist deities are celebrated in and Jain art from India the exhibition ‘Gods and and the Himalayas – in Monsters’, through Indian particular Gupta, Pala miniature paintings, and Chola sculpture Tibetan thangkas, and – also represented at Khmer and Indian Hioco are bronzes of sculptures. (14-23 March; the Dong Son culture, Arader Galleries, 1016 along with ceramics from Detail of Narasimha Detail of Vishnu India or Bangladesh, Madison Avenue, 3/F; several early Vietnamese India, South Chola period, Pala period, 11th century www.nayefhomsi.com) dynasties. (15-23 March; 12th century Black stone 29 East 72nd Street; www. Bronze Height 76 cm Height 59 cm galeriehioco.com) Jonathan Tucker and Dalton Somaré Antonia Tozer Twenty-three Indo- ‘An Important Group of Greek, Greek Bactrian Sculptures from India and Gandharan objects and Southeast Asia’ form the exhibition ‘After encompasses a range Alexander, Works of Art of media and distinct from Hellenized Asia’. The periods. These include theme of art as a common terracotta works from language between cultures 4th/5th century Gandhara, is explored through stone sculptures from works documenting Avalokiteshvara Pre-Angkor period the intersection and Buddha Vietnam, later Le dynasty, Gandhara, 2nd century 17th/18th century Cambodia, and 17-18th coexistence of Greek Schist Wood century wood figures from naturalism and Asian Height 86 cm Height 66 cm Vietnam.