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ASIAN ART The newspaper for collectors, dealers, and galleries june 2005 £5.00/US$8/€10 The Taj Mahal and the Battle of Air Pollution

THE GOVERNMENT OF buy the more expensive ticket if they courtyard and its cloisters were added announced earlier this year that it is to want to get around the limit. Night subsequently and the complex was restrict the number of daily visitors to viewing is still permitted, but restricted fnally completed in 1653, with the the Taj Mahal in an attempt to to fve nights a month (including full tomb being the central focus of the preserve the 17th-century monument. moon). entire complex of the Taj Mahal. One of the best known buildings in Smog and heavy air pollution has It was inscribed on the World the world, and arguably India’s greatest been yellowing the Taj Mahal for Heritage List in 1983. Although the monument, makes it one of the most- many years and conservationists have Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ), which visited tourist attractions in the world. been fghting through the courts to looks after 40 protected monuments, Millions of mostly Indian tourists visit control the levels of pollution in Agra. including three World Heritage Sites, the Taj Mahal every year and their Te Taj faces numerous threats, not Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Fatehpur numbers are increasing steadily, as only from air pollution, but also insects, Sikri, delivered a court ban on the use domestic travel becomes easier. As the and efuents which are deposited on of coal/coke in industries located in crowds have grown over the years, the the rear wall facing the heavily polluted the TTZ, the ruling has failed to halt white marble tomb is subject to more Yamuna River. Years of interventions the increased air pollution in the zone. wear and tear to its now fragile – including using mudpacks to draw Last month, Te Supreme Court infrastructure, which already the stain from the stone – have failed ordered the state government of Uttar undergoes regular cleaning to help to arrest the slow decay of the building. Pradesh to produce a ‘vision document’ prevent the heavily polluted air badly Te mausoleum was built by outlining its plan for protecting this discolouring the stone. Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (r 1628- new wonder of the modern world In future, only 40,000 local tourists 1658) in memory of his wife Mumtaz alongside the National Green Tribunal will be allowed to enter the historic Mahal. Commissioning started in which has sought a response from the complex per day and foreign visitors 1631 and construction started in 1632 Archaeological Survey of India on will pay 1,000 rupees (US$16) a day to and was completed in 1648, with the why the TTZ ruling has not had any enter. Indian nationals normally pay mosque, the guest house and the main afect on the pollution problem in Te Taj Mahal, on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra, continues its long battle 40 rupees for entry, but will be able to gateway on the south, the outer regard to the related buildings. against pollution and the fght to control its burgeoning visitor numbers

NEWS IN BRIEF Inside J. J. L a l l y & C o. 2 Profile: Korean artist FREER/SACKLER AWARD Kim Guiline oriental art Te Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M Sackler 6 Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Enoura Observatory, Sagami Bay 41 East 57th Street New York, NY 10022 Tel (212) 371-3380 www.jjlally.com Gallery have been awarded a grant of more than US$1 million from the Ministry of Culture, Sports 10 The Royal Asiatic Society and Tourism of the Republic of Korea. During the 12 In the footsteps of St Thomas fve-year programme, two masterworks from the in India National of Korea will be on exhibit, senior 14 Edo-period painting in New York Ancient Chinese scholars will be in residence and the Freer|Sackler’s 16 Power and Beauty in ’s Last Dynasty, in Minneapolis Exhibition and Sale March 15-29, 2018 annual Korean Film Festival and other public programmes will contribute to raising the profle of 18 Dressed to impress: netsuke and culture on the . Te frst 20 Incense culture in imperial China, masterwork exhibition will be held in 2019 at the in Freer|Sackler. 22 Week in New York AWNY gallery shows SANJUSANGENDO HALL, KYOTO 24 New York map and essential listings Preservation and repair work has now been completed 26 Asia Week in New York, on all 1,001 statues of 1,000-armed Kannon AWNY gallery shows at Kyoto’s Sanjusangendo Hall, ending a 32 JADA shows 45-year wait. Te preservation and repair work on the 34 New York gallery shows and statues, designated as important cultural properties, museum exhibitions started in 1973, using the Cultural Afairs Agency’s 38 New York previews subsidy programme for such properties and national 43 Calligraphy in Kansas treasures. Annually, between 15 and 30 statues were 44 Royal gifts from India in Edinburgh; overhauled, but about 40 per year were repaired Latiff Mohidi, and starting in 2013. Te work mainly involved cleaning Adel Abdessemed in of dust and preventing foil from peeling of the 45 Gallery shows relics, the oldest of which date from the latter years of 46 Listings the Heian Period (794 to 1185). 47 Islamic Diary HAN-DYNASTY MIRROR, Next issue Archaeologists in Japan have unearthed a 1,900-year- old Chinese mirror that is not only still intact, but April 2018 well-preserved enough to still show a faint refection. City ofcials in Fukuoka commented that such a Contact us discovery is extremely rare, according to Japanese national newspaper the Asahi Shimbun. See page 2 for details subscribe on asianartnewspaper.com

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Gilt- fgure were acquired directly from the of Buddha artists by this well-known Shakyamuni on a calligrapher (1902-1990) and have lion throne, , sterling provenance. 14th century, height 32.5 cm, SOTHEBY’S est Saturday at Sotheby’s: $800/1,200,000, Asian Art Sotheby’s Saturday, 24 March, 10am 380 lots, $1,300,000-2,000,000 Tis sale has continued to be very well received, and this time it will proceed without a session break. About three- quarters (300 lots) is devoted to Chinese ceramics and works of art with some furniture (12 lots) and a few textiles (10 Qing-dynasty dragon robes, framed kesi panels and an 18th- century, Qing-dynasty carpet). A small selection of 30 snuf bottles as well as a similar number of and hardstone carvings rounds out the Chinese works of art section. One of the earlier pieces of Ming Huang and Yang Guifei Listening to Music, (detail), early sculpture was in an Italian private SOTHEBY’S furniture is an 18th/19th-century, , circa 1368-1400, ink and light colour on silk, collection in 1976 and sold in these Fine Classical Chinese Qing-dynasty, huanghuali Ming-style Worcester rooms in 2004 (est 1,000,000- Paintings and Calligraphy recessed-leg table form stand (est 1,500,000). A very elegant 13th- Friday, 23 March, 10am & 2pm $15/25,000). However, an early 20th- century bronze fgure of Appar from Approximately 235 lots, $7,200,000- century pair of huanghuali horseshoe- DANGEROUS Southern India has a distinguished 10,900,000 back armchairs are likely to be of almost provenance. It was in the collection of Te sale is evenly divided between as much interest simply because LIAISONS Dr JR Belmont, Basel, before 1968, in calligraphy and painting. Over 60 huanghuali is so favoured by Chinese the Pan-Asian Collection, 1968- percent are modern works with collectors (est $10/15,000). 1983, when it was on loan to the numerous works by Zhang , Te ceramics range in date from REVISITED Art Museum, 1977-1983, Pu Ru, and other major modern pottery to and sold at Christie’s New York in artists. Te two top lots are hanging from the Republic Period, with a Tis exhibition revolves allies of An, demanded her 2011 (est $400/600,000). scrolls in ink and colour on paper by majority of Qing porcelain with a few around an early 15th-century death, at which the emperor, Himalayan gilt- are well late Qing master Wu Changshuo from the von Henneken collection. Chinese handscroll in the now weeping profusely, represented, too. Te star of a group of (1844-1927). One depicts Plum A Qianlong mark and period blue museum’s collection, Ming ordered his chief to four gilt bronzes from a Swiss private Blossom, the other Pine and and white stemcup with Tibetan Huang and Yang Guifei strangle her with a piece of collection, a 14th-century, gilt-bronze Ganoderma. Each has a ‘Lança’ characters is very attractive Listening to Music. It is a yellow silk. A year later, fgure of Buddha Shakyamuni on a $400/600,000 estimate. A calligraphy (est $15/25,000). about a tragic Chinese love he was allowed to return to lion throne from Tibet was acquired handscroll of poems in cursive script Tis year Sotheby’s has two selling story in which an emperor Chang’an (present-day Xian), in , 1991-1995 (est by the eminent Ming-dynasty exhibitions.Te frst, Luis Chan: Te abandoned his state where he remained as $800,000-1,200,000). Tree other calligrapher and calligrapher World Comes to Him, is devoted to the responsibly for the company ‘Retired Emperor’ for the rest gilt-bronzes from the Edwin and Peng (1498-1573), son of the artist work of painter, teacher, curator and for a woman he loved. Te of his life. Te topic of this Cherie Silver collection are also very Wen Zhengming, dated 1560, has cultural advocate Luis Chan (1905- emperor, who ruled from tragic love story is not fne. seals of the artist and colophons by 1995). Born in Panama, he moved to 712-756, had organised a unfamiliar to us. Te story of Xiang Hanping (1890-1978) and Hong Kong at the age of fve and restructuring of the corrupt lovers being torn apart is told Wang Yunzhong (1873-1918). Te barely left it for the rest of his life. His and inefcient government from ancient times, and seen SOTHEBY’S estimate is $120/180,000. work was very infuential in the ofces and returned power to in the West as Dido and The Chew Family Tere are several sequences of development of 20th-century the Emperor. He had 30 sons Aeneas and Romeo and Collection of Chinese single owner Chinese-American and refected the and 29 daughters, but after Juliette. Paintings & Calligraphy collections of paintings. Te 12 lots numerous outside infuences he was the death of his empress, Apart from the centrepiece Thursday, 22 March, 5pm from the Wellington and Juliana exposed to through his reading of Wang, he became infatuated Ming-dynasty handscroll, the 76 lots, $4,600,000-6,600,000 Koo Collection combine paintings international art journals. Te 29 with one of his son’s wife, museum has added some 25 Joan Wu, the last daughter of a and calligraphy, and a set of six, paintings spanning six decades range Yang Guifei. contextual works of art, general who was assassinated in the framed Su Shi Poems in Running from Western-style oils and Tis fascination eventually including numerous musical early 1930s went to the US, where Script in ink on paper by Zeng watercolour, to Chinese ink caused much discontent, instruments, a Tang - she studied at USC and met and Guofan (1811-1872) is very landscapes and collages and especially within the Court. glazed equestrienne fgure, married Tomas Chew. Tey settled interesting because the artist had encapsulate life in Hong Kong during In essence, he no longer paid other tomb sculptures, and in Carmel where they started the given it to Li Hanzhang, the elder Chan’s lifetime. any attention to his role as prints by Shunman, Okumura China Art Center and ran the brother of Li Hongzhang who Te second exhibition, The Great supreme authority and Masanobu, Hokkei and Dolores Lodge. Tey met and got to became Prime Minister (est Within, features 30 photographs wanted to spend his time Harunobu. During the Tang know the famous and very prolifc $60/80,000). Te classical and chosen by author and photography with her, especially while dynasty, music was an modern artist Zhang Daqian (1899- modern painting collection of noted historian, Clark Worswick. Worswick listening to music played by important item at court and 1993,) when he lived in Carmel in scholar and professor of Chinese art had a passion for 19th- century an all-female orchestra. Te many Tang tombs have the 1960s and 1970s. Te Chews history at the University of Kansas, photos of India, and started collecting widespread discontent over unearthed polychrome- received two classical paintings and Dr Chu-tsing-Li, is divided between them on his travels there in 1959. his dereliction of his duties painted ceramic models of eleven of his own works from Zhang this sale and Saturday’s (30 lots in Tese images taken by photographers caused a provincial governor musicians – most of whom and acquired others from local each). Many modern paintings from engaged by the Raj caught India’s An Lushan to revolt. He did are females. Te subject is collectors and from sources in the Tai Jingnong Family collection landscape just before it began to so, declared himself the frst universal and when love takes Taiwan. After many years abroad as a modernise. As many have deteriorated emperor of Yan and began his over, it seems to be that follower of Mother Teresa, their or disappeared, Worswick developed march on the capital, common sense and logic are daughter, Frances Chew aka Sister a process to digitally conserve the Chang’an. nowhere in sight. Asha returned to Carmel to look image and has reprinted them so they Ming Huang was forced to Martin Barnes Lorber after her mother until her death in will last for a long time. Tey are fee to , together with 2014, and passed away in 2017. available for sale in three diferent sets his entire family, including Worcester Art Museum, Practically their entire collection is of sizes. Yang Guifei, but the entire Worcester, Massachusetts. ofered here. A large horizontal entourage were blocked by Trough 22 July. Zhang Daqian Splashed Landscape ANNUAL SPRING SALE Tibetan soldiers. Te soldiers, Worcesterart.org painting in ink and colour on paper, Gianguan Auction signed Yuanweng and dated wushen 10 March (1968), now the most sought after Chinese Buddhist devotional art lead type among his works, and which the Spring Sale at Gianguan auctions. has never been exhibited or published, Highlights include a Sui-dynasty Why not explore is likely to attract the most attention gilt-bronze alterpiece of Buddha (est $1,200,000-1,800,000). Several , that suggests the Seven unusual classical paintings will also Buddhas on the Great Tower of our Archives? be of interest. A landscape album of Asoka, a Northern Wei dynasty eight leaves inspired by Song and Buddhist stele, and a Buddhist gilt- masters in ink on paper by early bronze shrine from the Western Wei aaa Qing artist, Yun Shouping (1633- period. Other works of art include a 1690), considered to be one of the selection of Chinese scroll paintings, Six Masters of the , carved jade, and Chinese , We curate a special selection from the archives each month, bears many important inscriptions Sui-dynasty, gilt-bronze altarpiece of along with a collection of zisha so join our newsletter to keep informed. Sign up at including by artists Pu Ru (1896- Buddha Maitreya with seven Buddha teapots and stone seals. asianartnewspaper.com 1963) and Zhang Daqian (est on lotus blossom thrones overhead, More information on $240/280,000). Gianguan Auctions gianguanauctions.com

ASIAN ART MARCH 2018 46 Listings

J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Culture in Late Imperial China, ongoing; ’s Tour of India 1875-6, to 22 Apr. The 40th Memorial of Shoji Hamada North America A Queen’s Treasure from Versaille: Talents and Beauties: Art of Women in Rietberg Museum, Zurich from Tamesaburo Yamamoto Collection, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC Marie-Antionette’s Japanese Lacquer, Japan, to 15 Jul. Wealth, Good Fortune and Longevity - to 8 April. Color Across Asia, to 13 May. to 6 Jan, 2019; Rembrandt and the Look out for Smart Museum, , IL Chinese New Year Prints, to 6 May. Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Inspiration of India, 13 March to 27 May Asian Art Galleries, ongoing. Science Museum, A Century of Art Journey through 100 Parvis Tanavili, to 30 Apr; Listening to Guggenheim Museum, New York Tibet House, Illuminating India, to 31 March. Masterpieces, to 11 Mar. Art, Seeing Music, to 22 Apr; The World Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, to 8 Divine Feminine: New Masterpieces from Staatliche Museen zu , Berlin Sagawa Art Museum, Kansai of teh Fatimids, 10 Mar to 2 Jul May , 15 March to 11 May Vis à Vis: Asia Meets Europe, to April Raku Kichizaemon X: The 1970s Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Museum of Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2019. Generation Today, to 11 Mar. OH, A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Indianapolis Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Jan van der Togt Museum, Amstelveen Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Ceramics, to 27 May; A Century of Asian Mastering Materials: Rare Objects from Own Leg, to 6 May Walasse Ting, the Amsterdam Years, to Cinerama: Art and the Moving Image in Art at Oberlin: Japanese Prints, to 1 July. the IMA’s Asian Collection, to 15 Jul; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 15 April , to 18 Mar. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Hiroshige: Famous Views in the 60-Odd CT Troppen Museum, Amsterdam Sun Museum, Hong Kong India Modern: The Paintings of M. F. Provinces, to 1 Apr. Asian collections, ongoing; Japan’s Permanent collections of Asian art. The Art of Shen Ping: Compositions of Husain, to 4 March; Xu Longsen: Light Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Global Baroque, 1550–1650, to 21 May. Victoria & Albert Museum, London Two Lands, to 3 March. of Heaven, to 24 June; Mirroring China’s Art, Staten Island, NY The Walters Art Museum, , MA Chinese Snuff Bottles in the V&A, to 31 Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes, to Infinite Compassion: Avalokiteshvara in Arts of Asia, to 30 Sept 2020. May; Lustrous Surfaces: Lacquer in Asia Treasures from Ninnaji Temple and 13 May. Asian Art, to 30 Sept. The Getty Center, Los Angeles Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,MA and Beyond, to 16 Septl Permanent Omuro, to 11 March; Roads of Arabia: Asia Society, New York City, NY Japanese American Museum, Los Marie-Antionette’s Japanese Dangerous Liaisons Revisted: Art and Asian and Collections. Archaeological Treasures of Saudi In Focus: An Assembly of Gods, to Angeles Lacquer, to 6 January, 2019 Music Inspired by the Chinese Tang Wellcome Collection, London Arabia, to 18 March. 25 March; Masterpieces From the Sadako’s Crane, ongoing; Kaiju vs Court, to 22 April. Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian UMAG, Hong Kong Asia Society Museum Collection, to Heroes: Mark Nagata’s Journey through the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Medicine, to 8 Apr. Nestorian Crosses of the , 25 March; Unknown Tibet: The Tucci the World of Japanese Toys, to Sept. Hatakeyama, to 22 July. Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna to Dec 2022. Expeditions and Buddhist Painting, to Japan Society, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Europe Fascinated by , to 30 Mar; At Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo 20 May. A Giant Leap: The Transformation of Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland the Threshold of the Orient, to 31 Mar; Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Hasegawa Tohaku, 9 March-6 May A Collaboration with Nobuo Tsuji and the Collections, ongoing. A Village in the Mountains, to 31 Mar; A What Brings You Closer to Art Philippine Art: Collecting Art, Collecting Herbert F Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to 1 April; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford New Perception – View on China, to 30 Memories, to 11 March; Traces of the Debating Art: Chinese Intellectuals at the Black and White: Japanese Modern Old Traditions New Visions: Art in India Jun; 1873 – Japan comes to Europe, Past and Future: Fu Shen’s Paintings Crossroads, to 8 July Art, to 1 April; Japanese Prints: The and after 1947, to 8 March; Qu to 30 Jun. and Calligraphy, to 2 Sept; Divine Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Psychedelic Seventies, to 12 August. Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain, to 15 The Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Bodies, 9 March-29 Jul. Eugene, OR Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Apr; The Tale of Prince Vessantara, 27 South Asian Modernists 1953-63, to Glorious: earthly pleasures and heavenly Bard Graduate Center, New York Long Nineteenth Century in Japanese Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese March-9 Sept. 5 April. realms, through 2018; Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles, Woodblock Prints, to 1 July. Buddhist Gilt Bronzes from the Jane Baur Foundation, Geneva National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, to 8 July. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX and Leopold Swergold Collection, to 13 Japanese and Chinese collecitons, NGV Triennial, to 15 April 2018 BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA From the Lands of Asia: The Sam and May; Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections ongoing. Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Buddhist Realms, to 22 Apr 2018. Myrna Myers Collection, to 19 Aug. from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, , London Asia Brisbane Brooklyn Museum, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to 30 Dec. Living with Gods, peoples, places and Adachi Museum of Art, Chugoku Problem/Wisdom,Thai Art in 1990s, to Ahmed Mater: Mecca Journey, Los Angeles, CA Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City worlds beyond, to 8 April; Permanent Ideal Expression of People in Japanese 12 Aug to 8 Apr A Tale of Two Persian Carpets (One Islamic Art: Global Connections and Asian and Islamic art collections. Painting, to 31 May. Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA by One): The Ardabil and Coronation Exchange, to 17 June; Dreams of the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London Artcourt Gallery, Osaka : Selections from Carpets, to 8 July; Wu Bin’s Ten Views of Kings: A Jade Suit for Eternity, to 1 April; Music, Faith and Diplomacy Along the Hitoshi Nomura: The History of Space- Events the Summer , to 11 March; a Lingbi Stone, to 24 June; In the Fields Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese , to 23 March. Time 3 Stages Accomplished by Cosmic Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Sacred Realms: Temple Murals by of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection, , Metz Sensibility, or Infinitely Distant Memories, Divine Bodies Presents: Body and Shashi Dhoj Tulachan From the Gayle and Present in Iranian Art, to 9 Sept. to 18 March; More than Words: The Japanorama: New vision on art since to 17 March. Expression with Cali & Co. Dance and Edward P. Roski Collection, ongoing. The Met Breuer, New York City Art of Calligraphy across Asia, to 8 July; 1970, to 5 March; Latiff Mohidin: Pago Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore Company, 24 March, 2-4pm Charles B Wang Center, NYC, NY Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Revealing a Hidden Treasure: A Jain Pago, to 28 May Ancient Religions, ongoing; The Scholar Charles B. Wang Center, New York Potasia: Potatoism in the East, 15 Shrine from India, to 18 April. Cernuschi Museum, Paris in , ongoing; A Space Lecture: The Motif of Potatoes in Korean March-15 June; Space Drawing by Sun Museum of Art Entre la chine et l’Occident, autour du for Contemporary Art, ongoing; Tang Media (Old and New), 22 March, 1pm. K. Kwak, long-term installation Don’t miss New Forms, New Voices: Japanese legs Jacques Touron, to 18 March; Shipwreck, ongoing. Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, China Institute, New York Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Parfums de Chine, to 26 August. Museum, Bangkok D.C.Gallery Talk: Arts of Indonesia, 8 Art of the Mountain: Through the Collection, to 13 May. Durham University Oriental Museum Four newly refurbished galleries opened March, 1pm; Nowruz: A Persian New Chinese Photographerls Lens, to 2 Dec Newark Museum, Newark, N.J Khyal: Music and Imagination, to 3 June. to the public in Feb 2018 Year Celebration, 11 March, 11am; Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia, 14 Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Persian Music: Classical and New, 11 Army: Legacy of the First March to Feb 2019; Ongoing: From The Art of the Book, ongoing Shinagawa March, 1pm and 4pm; Images from , to 12 Aug. Meiji to Modern: Goes Daiwa Foundation, London My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from India: Sunil Gupta on Photography Crow Museum, Dallas, TX Global, The Art of Japan, Korea: Setsuko Ono, to 9 March the Permanent Collection, to 3 June. as Critical Practice, 15, 6.30pm; Earthly Splendor: Korean Ceramics from Land of the Diamond Mountains, Red Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asian Arts, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo Symposium: Studies of Early Chinese the Collection, from 20 Jan. Luster, ongoing; Tibet Collection, Gods, Budapest Japan CUTE !, to 25 March. Lacquer Buddhas, 25 March, 6-9pm; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,TX Guides and Sacred Symbols of India, When the Gates of Asia Open Up, Iwami Art Museum, Chugoku Symposium: Studies of Early Chinese The Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery, Influences of the Indic World: India ongoing; Ukiyo-e,Japanese Wood Permanent collections. Lacquer Buddhas, 26 March, 9am- to Apr 2020; Asian Textiles: Art and and Nepal, Southeast Asia: Art of a Carvings from the collection owned by Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka 12pm; Gallery Talk: Japanese Art, 29 Trade Along the Silk Road, to 9 Dec. Cultural Crossroads, Tiaras to Toe Rings: the Count Vay Péter, ongoing; Cindery In The Foreign Sky: Japanese Artists and March, 1pm; Film: Japanese Classics: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Asian Ornaments , Taoism, Peach and Mohammedan Blue : Asia, to 17 April. “Onibaba”, 7 March, 2pm; Film: Devoted: Visual Performances of Confucius and the Cult of Mao: China’s Chinese porcelain exhibition, ongoing.; Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, Film: “Tokyo Idols”, 16 March, 7pm; Faith, to 19 Aug; Above the Fold: New Religious Arts;China’s China: Porcelain, Sanghay – Shanghai Parallel Diversities The Secret Garden: Symbols of Nature Environmental Film Festival: “A Beautiful Expressions in Origami, to 13 May. The Metrropolitan Museum, New York Earthenware, Stoneware & Glazes, Between East and West, to April 2018. in Wood, Silver and Gold, to 4 March; Star”, 18 March, 2pm. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Diamond Mountains: Travel and ongoing; Musical Arts of Asia, to 26 Feb , Paris The Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Linking Asia: Art Trade, and Devotion, to Longing in Korean Art, to 20 May Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Enquêtes vagabondes, le voyage illustré Persia, 20 March-24 June. Nowruz 2018: The Persian New Year 1 Apr; : The Playful Protector, to MegaCity: India’s Culture of the Streets, d’Émile Guimet en Asie, to 12 Marchl Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto Festival, 17 March, 10am-5pm. 28 Oct; Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie, to 8 July. Singh Photographs, to 2 Jan. to 30 June; Importing Splendor: Daimyo: Seigneurs de la guerre au Permanent collections. Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto Field Museum, Chicago, IL The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Luxuries from China, to 30 June; Double Japon, to 13 May; Caractères d’Asie, Maritime Museum, Hong Kong Gallery Talk, every second and fourth Ongoing: Cyrus Tang Hall of China, New York City Happiness: Celebration in Chinese Art, Trésors de la bibliothèque, 15 March to To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Sunday, 2pm. Hall of Jades,. A Passion for Jade: Heber Bishop to 30 June. 28 May. Ancient Maritime and Overland Trade, Rubin Museum of Art, New York Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, and His Collection, to 22 July; Spirited Philadelphia Museum of Art, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris to 30 June. Kento Iwasaki: Spiral Music, 14 D.C., Encountering the Buddha: Art and Creatures: Animal Representations Philadelphia, PA Pour un musée en Palestine, 10 Menard Art Museum, Komaki March, 6pm; Kilung Rinpoche and Practice Across Asia, to 29 Nov 2020; in Chinese Silk and Lacquer, to 22 A Teahouse for Philadelphia, ongoing; March-13 May. A General Collection Person, Face, György Buzsáki: Is Reincarnation a Feast Your Eyes: A Taste of Luxury Iran, July; Celebrating the Year of the Textured Material: Korean Contemporary Japanmuseum SieboldHuis, Leiden Form, 21 March-24 June Buddhist Time Machine?, 18 March, ongoing; Engaging the Senses: Arts of Dog, to 4 July; Crowns of the Vajra Art, ongoing; Chinese , Masked Warriors. Battle Stage of the Miho Museum, Shigaraki 3pm; Sameer Gupta and Ross the Islamic World, ongoing; Looking Masters: Ritual Art of Nepal, to 16 ongoing. Samurai, to 27 May Sarugaku Masks from Yamato, Omi, and Hammond: Spiral Music, 28 March, Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial Dec; Japanese Arms and Armor from Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ Kunsthalle, Berlin the Area around Hakusan, 10 March-3 6pm; Awakening Practice: Morning China, ongoing; Setting the Bar: Arts the Collection of Etsuko and John Warriors in World War I, Sikh Art and Fahrelnissa Zeid, to 25 March June. Mindfulness in the Shrine Room, 31 of the , ongoing; Center Morris, to 6 Jan 2019; Streams and Heritage, to 15 April; Yayoi Kusama: MAK, Vienna Mori Art Museum, Tokyo March, 11.30am. of the World: China and the Silk Road, Mountains without End: Landscape You Who Are Getting Obliterated in MAK Permanent Collection Asia, Materials and Boundaries - Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo ongoing; Promise of Paradise: Ancient Traditions of China, to 6 Jan 2019. the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies, to ongoing. Handiwirman Saputra + Chiba Masaya, Lecture: Experience Japanese Culture: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, ongoing; Middlebury College Museum of Art, December 2020. Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester to 1 April; Yamamoto Atsushi, to 1 April; The Noh Play Arashiyama at the Tokyo Art and Industry: China’s Ancient Middlebury, VT Rhode Island School of Design, South Asian Design, to 27 May. Dane Mitchell, to 1 April. National Museum, 30 March, 6.40pm; Houma Foundry, ongoing; Afterlife: Robert F Reiff Gallery of Asian Art, Providence, RI Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin National Gallery, Singapore Lecture: Kuroda Seiki and Western- Ancient Chinese Jades, ongoing; Secrets ongoing. Asian Galleries, ongoing. Asian art collections. Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and style Painting of the Meiji Era: From the of the Lacquer Buddham to 10 June; Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla Museum der Kulturen, Basel Juan Luna, to 11 March; Light To Night | Viewpoint of East Asian Fine Art, 31 Resound: Ancient Bells of China, to Indonesian Shadow Puppets, to Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads, to 1 June. Asian art collections. Flowers and People - Dark by teamLab, March, 1.30pm. 2020; Xu Bing: Monkeys Grasp for 18 March; Kantha: Recycled and Rubin Museum of Art, New York Museum of Archaeology and to 12 Aug; Light To Night | The House the Moon, ongoing; Subodh Gupta: Embroidered Textiles of Bengal, to Masterworks of Himalayan Art, to 26 Anthropology, Cambridge is Crumbling by Pinaree Sanpitak, to 1 Terminal, ongoing; Ancient and Alive: 25 March. March; Sacred Spaces The Road to... Another India, to 22 Apr. April; Light To Night | Walk, Walk, Walk: Last Chance Japan’s Native Gods, ongoing; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, , Nice Search, Deviate, Reunite by teamLab, Power of Words in an Age of Crisis, Minneapolis, MN to 15 Oct; Gateway to Himalayan Art, to Samouraï: de la guerre à la voie des arts, to 12 Aug. ongoing; Imperfectly Beautiful: Inventing Miao Clothing and Jewelry from 28 May. to 25 March; Statuaires et Sites Sacrés National Museum of China, Japanese Ceramic Style, ongoing; In China, to 1 July; A World of Radiant San Antonio Musum, San Antonio, TX du Japon, to 28 May. A History of the World in 100 Objects, the Shadow of an Apocalypse, ongoing; Awakening: Buddhism and the The Magic of Clay and Fire: Japanese Museum of East Asian Art, Bath to May 2018; Permanent collections of The Beginnings of Buddhism in Japan, Painting of China, to 18 March; Contemporary Ceramics, to spring 2018. Dressed to Impress: Netuske and Asian art. ongoing; Rediscovering Korea’s Past, In Focus: Contemporary Japan, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Japanese Men’s Fashions, to 22 April. National Museum of , Kyoto ongoing; Body Image, ongoing; Gods, to 12 August; Boundless Peaks: Diego, CA, Visible Vaults, to 12 Nov Museum of East Asian Art, The 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Companions, and Devotees, ongoing; Ink Paintings by Minol Araki, to 24 2019; Art of , to 31 Dec 2019. Asian art collections. Period: Making and Designing Meiji Arts The Glazed Elephant: Ceramic Traditions June; Power and Beauty in China’s San Jose Museum of Art, CA Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, and Crafts, 20 March to 20 May. in , ongoing; Power in Last Dynasty: Concept and Design The Propeller Group, to 25 March. Stockholm National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Southeast Asia, ongoing. by Robert Wilson, to 27 May; Hard Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Asian art collections. Kumagai Morikazu: The Joy of Life, to Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Awakened Ones: Buddhas of Asia, Prado, Madrid 21 Mar. Highlights from the Asian Collection, Lacquer Sculpture, to 24 June; ongoing; Porcelain Room, ongoing; Cai Guo-Qiang, to 3 April. Nezu Museum, Tokyo Guimet Museum, Paris ongoing; Show Me the Mini, 25 Nov; Mizusashi: Japanese Water Jars Ai Weiwei: Colored Vases, ongoing; The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of A Bouquet of Incense Containers, to 31 Curious Travellers, Images of Emile Conserving Treasures: Jamini Roy and from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Europe Imagines the East, ongoing; Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh March. Guimet’s Joiurnieys, to 12 March Modern , to 11 March. Collection, to 13 May; Excavating Pure Amusements: Wealth, Leisure, and Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto

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