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    New Mandala Lab
    Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
    Date: Oct 01, 2021 to Oct 30, 2027
    Detail: An Interactive Space for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning

    The Mandala Lab, located on the Museum’s remodeled third floor, invites curiosity about our emotions. Consider how complex feelings show up in your everyday life and imagine how you might have the power to transform them.

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    New Samurai Splendor: Sword Fittings from Edo Japan
    Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
    Date: Mar 21, 2022 to Mar 31, 2024
    Detail: After almost a century and a half of near-constant civil war and political upheaval, Japan unified under a new ruling family, the Tokugawa, in the early 1600s. Their reign lasted for more than 250 years, in an era referred to as the Edo period, after the town of Edo (present-day Tokyo) that became the new capital of Japan. The Tokugawa regime brought economic growth, prolonged peace, and widespread enjoyment of the arts and culture. The administration also imposed strict class separation and rigid regulations for all. As a result, the ruling class—with the shogun as governing military official, the daimyo as local feudal lords, and the samurai as their retainers—had only a few ways to display personal taste in public. Fittings and accessories for their swords, which were an indispensable symbol of power and authority, became a critical means of self-expression and a focal point of artistic creation.

    This installation explores the luxurious aspects of Edo-period sword fashion, a fascinating form of arms and armor rarely featured in exhibitions outside Japan. It presents a selection of exquisite sword mountings, fittings, and related objects, including maker’s sketchbooks—all drawn from The Met collection and many rarely or never exhibited before.

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    New Gateway to Himalayan Art
    Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
    Date: Jun 11, 2022 to Aug 03, 2025
    Detail: Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces you to the main forms, concepts, meanings, and traditions of Himalayan art represented in the Rubin Museum collection.

    The exhibition opens with a large map that highlights regions of the diverse Himalayan cultural sphere, including parts of present-day India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia. Gateway invites you to explore exemplary objects from the Museum’s collection, organized and presented in thematic sections: Figures and Symbols, Materials and Techniques, and Purpose and Function.

    In addition to sculptures and paintings, objects such as a stupa, prayer wheel, and ritual implements demonstrate how patrons sought the accumulation of merit and hoped for wealth, long life, and spiritual gains, all to be fulfilled through the ritual use of these objects and commissioning works of art.

    Among the featured installations are a display that explains the process of Nepalese lost-wax metal casting and a presentation of the stages of Tibetan hanging scroll painting (thangka). You will also encounter life-size reproductions of murals from Tibet’s Lukhang Temple, photographed by Thomas Laird and Clint Clemens.

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    New A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection
    Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
    Date: Jul 02, 2022 to Feb 17, 2025
    Detail: More than a hundred remarkable objects from the Heber Bishop collection, including carvings of jade, the most esteemed stone in China, and many other hardstones, are on view in this focused presentation. The refined works represent the sophisticated art of Chinese gemstone carvers during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) as well as the highly accomplished skills of Mogul Indian (1526–1857) craftsmen, which provided an exotic inspiration to their Chinese counterparts. Also on view are a set of Chinese stone-working tools and illustrations of jade workshops, which will introduce the traditional method of working jade.

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    New Embracing Color: Enamel in Chinese Decorative Arts, 1300–1900
    Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
    Date: Jul 02, 2022 to Jan 04, 2026
    Detail: Enamel decoration is a significant element of Chinese decorative arts that has long been overlooked. This exhibition reveals the aesthetic, technical, and cultural achievement of Chinese enamel wares by demonstrating the transformative role of enamel during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. The first transformational moment occurred in the late 14th to 15th century, when the introduction of cloisonné enamel from the West, along with the development of porcelain with overglaze enamels, led to a shift away from a monochromatic palette to colorful works. The second transformation occurred in the late 17th to 18th century, when European enameling materials and techniques were brought to the Qing court and more subtle and varied color tones were developed on enamels applied over porcelain, metal, glass, and other mediums. In both moments, Chinese artists did not simply adopt or copy foreign techniques; they actively created new colors and styles that reflected their own taste. The more than 100 objects on view are drawn mainly from The Met collection.

    Rotation 1: July 2, 2022–April 30, 2023
    Rotation 2: May 20, 2023–March 24, 2024
    Rotation 3: April 13, 2024–Feb 17, 2025

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    New Ganesha: Lord of New Beginnings
    Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
    Date: Nov 19, 2022 to Jun 16, 2024
    Detail: Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, is a Brahmanical (Hindu) diety known to clear a path to the gods and remove obstacles in everyday life. He is loved by his devotees (bhakti) for his many traits, including his insatiable appetite for sweet cakes and his role as a dispenser of magic, surprise, and laughter. However, Ganesha is also the lord of ganas (nature deities) and can take on a fearsome aspect in this guise.

    The seventh- to twenty-first-century works in this exhibition trace his depiction across the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Featuring 24 works across sculptures, paintings, musical instruments, ritual implements, and photography, the exhibition emphasizes the vitality and exuberance of Ganesha as the bringer of new beginnings.

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    New Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings
    Place: Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
    Date: Feb 25, 2023 to Apr 28, 2024
    Detail: Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings is the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Anyang, the capital of China’s Shang dynasty (occupied ca. 1250 BCE–ca. 1050 BCE). The source of China’s earliest surviving written records and the birthplace of Chinese archaeology, Anyang holds a special connection with the National Museum of Asian Art. In 1929, one year after Academia Sinica began archaeological work at the Bronze Age site, Li Chi assumed leadership of the excavations. At the time, he was also a staff member of the Freer Gallery of Art (1925–30). To promote archaeological practice in China, the Freer supported Li Chi and his first two seasons of work at Anyang. This collaboration, predicated on the advancement of scientific knowledge and the protection of cultural patrimony, marks an important chapter in the history of Sino-American relations.

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    New Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art
    Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
    Date: Apr 08, 2023 to Jul 14, 2024
    Detail: Drawn largely from The Met’s renowned collection of Japanese art, this exhibition explores the twin themes of anxiety and hope, with a focus on the human stories in and around art and art making.

    The exhibition begins with sacred images from early Japan that speak to concerns about death, dying, and the afterlife or that were created in response to other uncertainties, such as war and natural disaster. The presentation then proceeds chronologically, highlighting medieval Buddhist images of paradises and hells, Zen responses to life and death, depictions of war and pilgrimage, and the role of protective and hopeful images in everyday life. In the final galleries, the exhibition’s underlying themes are explored through a selection of modern woodblock prints, garments, and photographs.

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    New Jakhodo Today
    Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
    Date: Aug 24, 2023 to Aug 24, 2024
    Detail: Jakhodo Today by Dave Young Kim (American, b. 1979) was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum for the Lawrence and Gorretti Lui Hyde Street Art Wall and installed in 2023. Kim’s composition draws inspiration from Korean folk paintings of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). The tiger and magpie pairing appears so frequently in Korean art that it comprises its own genre: jakhodo, paintings depicting tigers and magpies. As tigers were believed to expel evil spirits and magpies represented bearers of good news, paintings of this duo were sometimes placed on the front gates or doors of houses to bring good luck. In time, a political dimension also emerged: caricatured as a foolish oaf, the tiger became a symbol for the aristocratic yangban, while the dignified magpie represented the common people; the display of such imagery allowed villagers to quietly rebel against the ruling class. The mural’s saekdong (colorful stripes) are a decorative element often used to adorn clothes and traditionally thought to summon good fortune. Their five or seven colored stripes originated with the concept of eumyang-ohaeng, or yin and yang, and the five elements.

    The tiger and magpie appear on several artworks in the museum’s collection of Korean art. Kim notes that many Korean Americans may have grown up with such imagery without being privy to the symbolism behind it. “It speaks of the familiarity of gleaned tradition without having knowledge of the deeper context or ancestral culture,” says Kim; “this is the immigrant story.”

    Dave Young Kim is a Los Angeles-based artist with Bay Area roots. A co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective, Kim often uses the specific to address universal ideas of the human condition in his artwork. Fundamentally, he explains, his work speaks to the premise that “we are all looking for a place to call home.”

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    New Pearls from the Ocean of Contentment
    Place: San Diego Museum of Art - San Diego, 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, USA
    Date: Oct 07, 2023 to Apr 07, 2024
    Detail: Featuring arts of the book from South Asia and the Persianate world, produced from the 12th through the 19th centuries, Pearls from the Ocean of Contentment explores new ways of presenting the Museum’s world-renowned Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of paintings, drawings, calligraphies, and manuscripts from South Asia, Iran, and Central Asia by focusing on the regional contours and geographies of India and surrounding areas.

    Many of the featured works were once bound in elaborately illustrated manuscripts, some surviving in complete form. Others were assembled in albums as personalized collections of painting, drawing, and calligraphy. Made primarily in royal workshops, they have typically been categorized by court or dynasty and the regions in which they flourished. Most of the works were eventually acquired by Edwin Binney 3rd (1925–1986), a Harvard-educated heir to the Crayola fortune with a wide-ranging interest in the arts, who then bequeathed his collection to the Museum. Intended to be encyclopedic in scope, the Museum’s Binney collection of over 1,400 works surveys every major school of painting across seven centuries. This rotating display explores the collection and its diversity through the regional contours and geographies of India and surrounding areas.

    Unfortunately, as manuscripts moved onto the art market, they were often disassembled and sold as individual folios of painting and calligraphy, destroying the original context for the images. While Binney’s position of privilege allowed him abundant access to and participation in this market, the collection’s size, range, and bequest reflect an ultimate desire for it to be preserved and shared with the public. Today, these works engage and delight audiences through their subject matter, narratives, and themes, providing insight about artists, workshops, and the production of painting and books in these regions.

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    New Deities, Paragons, and Legends: Storytelling in Chinese Pictorial Arts
    Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
    Date: Oct 13, 2023 to Jul 08, 2024
    Detail: This selection of paintings, textiles, and lacquerware illustrates well-known historical stories and love romances, tales of popular deities and heroic figures, and anecdotes of filial sons and celebrated scholars in Chinese art. For centuries, these fascinating images and their inscriptions were used to inform, entertain, and instruct various audiences, whether for religious persuasion, social engagement, cultural statement, or moral teaching. A showcase of these narrative or figural images in various mediums illuminates the deeply rooted visual cultural tradition that has existed in Chinese society across dynasties.

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    New Japanese Tastes in Chinese Ceramics
    Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, USA
    Date: Nov 17, 2023 to May 06, 2024
    Detail: Exquisite Chinese and Chinese-influenced ceramics from the Kyoto National Museum demonstrate the importance of Chinese art to Japanese tea culture.

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    New Ruth Asawa: Untitled (S.272)
    Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
    Date: Nov 17, 2023 to Feb 24, 2025
    Detail: A chance to intimately encounter one of Ruth Asawa’s most celebrated works.

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    New Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea
    Place: Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
    Date: Dec 09, 2023 to Dec 09, 2026
    Detail: Japan’s rich history of ceramic artistry developed in large part alongside the culture of drinking tea. The practice of preparing and serving matcha, powdered green tea, was called chanoyu (literally, “hot water for tea”) and gained popularity in the sixteenth century. Japanese tea practitioners initially used Chinese and Korean antique ceramics as tea bowls but began using newly made Japanese tea bowls, such as Raku ware, in the sixteenth century. Raku ware shares its name with the family that has made these ceramics in Kyoto since the sixteenth century. Unlike most tea bowls, Raku ceramics are built by hand—a process described as “knotting clay”—as opposed to using a wheel. Sixteenth-century potters are said to have collaborated closely with their tea-practitioner patrons to create distinctive vessels best-suited for tea drinking.

    Over the next four centuries, a network of Japanese potters incorporated Raku techniques into their practice; these techniques were later adopted in the 1950s by the American studio pottery movement. Raku wares are now internationally recognized as a Japanese ceramic style and continue to inspire artistic creativity worldwide. Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea explores these distinctive, hand-molded ceramics and their close relationship to Japanese tea culture. This exhibition features tea bowls, water containers, and other vessels in the museum’s permanent collection that demonstrate the glazes and forms unique to Raku ware.

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    New Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting
    Place: Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., California, USA
    Date: Dec 17, 2023 to Aug 04, 2024
    Detail: The act of coming together to partake of a meal is a practice shared by all cultures. Food defines us—we are what we eat. Dining with the Sultan is the first exhibition to present Islamic art in the context of its associated culinary traditions. It will include some 250 works of art related to the sourcing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food, from 30 public and private collections in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East—objects of undisputed quality and appeal, viewed through the universal lens of fine dining. The exhibition will stimulate not only the eyes but also the appetite, reminding visitors of the communal pleasure of food—both its taste and its presentation. It will provide much-needed information on the enormous class of luxury objects that may be broadly defined as tableware and demonstrate how gustatory discernment was a fundamental activity at the great Islamic courts.

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    New Japanese Ink Paintings
    Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
    Date: Dec 21, 2023 to May 06, 2024
    Detail: Highlights from the collection illustrate how Japanese artists from the 15th to the early 17th century engaged with Chinese ink painting styles.

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    New Into View: New Voices, New Stories
    Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, California, USA
    Date: Jan 19, 2024 to Oct 17, 2024
    Detail: Recently acquired work by fourteen contemporary artists whose alternative narratives of mythology, history, and identity speak to a radically reimagined future.

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    New By the Light of the Moon: Nighttime in Japanese Prints
    Place: Art Institute Chicago - Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, USA
    Date: Jan 20, 2024 to Apr 14, 2024
    Detail: Whether as a darkened backdrop for action-packed figural scenes or as a dominant presence over unpeopled landscapes, Japanese printmakers have represented nighttime in various ways over the past several centuries.

    In the earliest prints shown in this exhibition opening this Saturday, figures are the main focus of each image and darkness simply sets the stage. This is true for the mid- to late 18th-century works of Okumura Masanobu and Suzuki Harunobu, where a solid curtain of black appears behind each dramatic scene. By the 19th century, however, landscape prints were often dominated by the night sky—with or without a moon—and townspeople in urban settings or travelers in rural scenes were less prominent.

    Over time, some artists became more adventurous and began to depict different seasons and moments during the day. In the prints by Utagawa Hiroshige featured here, he has set each scene at a specific phase of the night, such as twilight or midnight, indicated by the hues of the sky. By the 20th century, artists could express the various moods associated with nighttime by the way they represented how shadows were cast, the brightness of stars, the reflections of the moon on vast oceans or small puddles, and the isolation of lonely travelers. In particular, Kawase Hasui cleverly incorporated small amounts of light into otherwise dark scenes to produce some of the most haunting images in the history of Japanese prints.

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    New Jian Yoo Iridescent Hue
    Place: The Korea Society - New York, 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, USA
    Date: Jan 25, 2024 to Apr 18, 2024
    Detail: Working in the precise and fine medium of mother of pearl — jagae in Korean – Jian Yoo’s iridescent art bridges historical and contemporary, nature and artificial, arts and crafts. Made of thousands of mother-of-pearl pieces layered in intricate patterns, Yoo’s art respectfully acknowledges the long tradition of master craft workers while reinventing the genre with distinctively modern sensibilities.

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    New Korean Treasures from the Chester and Cameron Chang Collection
    Place: Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., USA
    Date: Feb 25, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024
    Detail: Korean Treasures presents 35 artworks recently donated to LACMA by Drs. Chester and Cameron C. Chang (M.D.), selected from the largest gift of Korean art in the museum’s history. Chester Chang (Chang Jung Ki) was born in Seoul in 1939 and first moved to the United States as a child with his family in 1949, when his father, Chang Chi Whan, was appointed General Secretary to the first Consul General of Korea in Los Angeles. The bulk of the Chang family collection has been intact for over a century. This introductory exhibition presents traditional Korean paintings, calligraphic folding screens, mid-20th century oil paintings from both North and South Korea, and ceramics of the Goryeo (918–1392) and Joseon (1392–1897) dynasties.

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    New Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now
    Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
    Date: Mar 15, 2024 to Oct 06, 2024
    Detail: Contemplate and celebrate what Himalayan art means now with a Museum-wide exhibition of artworks by over 30 contemporary artists, many from the Himalayan region and diaspora and others inspired by Himalayan art and cultures.

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    New Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints
    Place: Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
    Date: Mar 23, 2024 to Oct 06, 2024
    Detail: Throughout Japanese cultural history, the boundary between the real world and the world of supernatural beings has been remarkably porous. Certain sites, states of mind, or periods in the lunar cycle made humans particularly vulnerable to ghostly intervention. The Edo period (1603–1868) was a crucial stage in the development and solidification of ideas about the supernatural. Many of the beliefs that gained currency at this time are still held as conventional wisdom in Japan today.

    Supernatural entities came to life especially during noh and kabuki theater performances. Explore—if you dare—the roles that ghosts and spirits play in the retelling of Japanese legends and real events. Staging the Supernatural brings together a collection of vibrant, colorful woodblock prints and illustrated books depicting the specters that haunt these two theatrical traditions.

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    New Beguiling Beni: Safflower Red in Japanese Fashion
    Place: The Victoria & Albert Museum - London, Cromwell Rd, United Kingdom
    Date: Jun 02, 2022 to Mar 31, 2024
    Detail: The Japanese dye 'beni', made from safflower petals, produces red hues and an iridescent green. This display reveals its many uses in fashion, from heel-less shoes by Noritaka Tatehana, to textiles, cosmetics and ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

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    New Textile Masters to the World: The global desire for Indian cloth
    Place: Asian Civilisations Museum - Singapore, 1 Empress Pl, Singapore 179555, Singapore
    Date: Mar 24, 2023 to Jan 24, 2025
    Detail: From 24 March 2023
    Daily, 10am - 7pm | Fridays, 10am - 9pm
    Asian Civilisations Museum, Level 3, Fashion and Textiles Gallery

    The Asian Civilisations Museum presents Textile Masters to the World: The global desire for Indian cloth with a selection of exquisite garments and textiles at its Fashion and Textiles Gallery. Featuring 27 pieces from the National Collection and loans, the exhibition spotlights the historic global impact of textile production in India, and its role as evidence of trade and cultural exchange between India and regions such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe from the fourteenth to nineteenth century. From fashion and furnishing, to gift exchange and heirlooms, visitors can marvel at the artistry and craftsmanship of early textile masters, and discover how Indian textiles influenced local designs, materials and fashions wherever they were traded.

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    New Ike Taiga―Landscape of Sunlight
    Place: Idemitsu Museum of Arts - Tokyo, 9th Floor, Teigeki Bldg., 3-1-1,Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
    Date: Feb 10, 2024 to Mar 24, 2024
    Detail: Landscape paintings depict the rustling of trees and leaves and the shimmering surface of water using only ink and color dots. These landscape paintings that allow viewers today to visit the distant West Lake or the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers were created from the mountain climbing experiences of Ike Taiga (1723-76), who admired Japanese nature. This exhibition unveils the virtuous personality of Taiga who admired China’s literati culture since childhood and explores the secrets of sensory landscape paintings by looking at works depicting Mount Fuji and China’s scenic sites, and other landscape paintings of four seasons. We hope you will enjoy the heartwarming expressions of Taiga’s gentle and blissful paintings.

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    New Asia Week New York
    Place: Throughout metropolitan New York - New York, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: Asia Week New York is an annual weeklong celebration of Asian art throughout metropolitan New York, with non-stop exhibitions, auctions and special events presented by leading international Asian art specialists, major auction houses, and world-renowned museums and cultural institutions.

    Asia Week New York is the premier destination for Asian art collectors, curators, scholars and enthusiasts.

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    New Lui Shou-Kwan
    Place: Alisan Fine Arts - New York, 120 East 65th Street, USA
    Date: Feb 29, 2024 to Apr 27, 2024
    Detail: ASIA WEEK OPENING RECEPTION
    March 14, 2024, 5-8pm

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    New Joo Myung Duck: Sensory Space in Photography
    Place: Miyako Yoshinaga - New York, 24 East 64th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 08, 2024 to Apr 13, 2024
    Detail: We are pleased to present Joo Myung Duck: Sensory Space in Photography. Originally known for social documentaries in his black-and-white photographs, Korean artist Joo Myung Duck (b. 1940) developed a series of densely “black” landscapes in the 1980s and the 1990s. In 2011, at age 71, Joo explored color photography, primarily focusing on the urban locality intertwined with colors, patterns, and textures. In the series, Joo employs close-looking and erases reality through the practice of abstract art to create sensory space. The exhibition also strives to shed light on this master photographer’s relationship with Korean abstract art, particularly, the Dansaekhwa movement and its artists, investigating their shared aesthetic, methodology, and philosophy.

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    New Ceramic Frontiers: Sodeisha & Shikokai in Post-war Japanese Art
    Place: Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. - New York, 18 East 64th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 12, 2024 to Mar 28, 2024
    Detail: On the occasion of Asia Week New York: In the landscape of mid-20th century Japan, two significant sculptural ceramic movements, Sodeisha and Shikokai, emerged concurrently during the post-war period. Dai Ichi Arts is thrilled to present a landmark exhibition this March that illuminates the richness of these historical movements, offering a distinctive lens through which to explore “Post-war” ceramics from Japan.

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    New Gods, Gardens and Princes: Indian Works on Paper
    Place: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. - New York, 67 East 80 Street, Suite 2, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: Opening Reception: Friday 15 March, 5-8pm

    For this 15th season of Asia Week New York, we are pleased to be present an exhibition comprising of court paintings from India and Persia from the 17th to 19th centuries. A highlight of the show is the striking painting, Krishna dancing on Kaliya flanked by two nagini. This, along with many other works on paper, will be displayed at our Upper East Side location.

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    New Spring Exhibition of Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art
    Place: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc. - New York, 16 East 52nd Street, Suite 1002, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: Join us for the 15th anniversary of Asia Week New York where we will showcase a fine collection of Chinese porcelain and works of art, including a rare Chinese Famille Verte porcelain titled Piggyback Boys, from the Kangxi Period (1662-1722). We will be open throughout the weekend from March 14th to the 22nd and look forward to your visit!

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    New COLLECTING THE MASTER: The Binnie Collection of Hiroshi Yoshida Paintings
    Place: Scholten Japanese Art - New York, 145 West 58th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: We are pleased to announce our upcoming gallery presentation, COLLECTING THE MASTER: The Binnie Collection of Hiroshi Yoshida Paintings, assembled by the prominent contemporary woodblock printmaker, Paul Binnie for this 15th year of Asia Week New York.

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    New Indian Painting
    Place: Francesca Galloway @ Les Enluminures Gallery - New York, 23 East 73rd Street, 7th floo, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 21, 2024
    Detail: Intimacy and Formality
    March 14 – 21, 2024
    Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14 until 8pm

    For Asia Week New York this March, we are pleased to present a small and exciting group of 17th and 18th century Mughal paintings, works from famous Bundi & Kota Ragamalas, a grand early 19th century Maratha processional scene by a Hyderabad trained artist, drawings for the famous Tehri Garhwal Gita Govinda series and Company School paintings including portraits of Indian children, a Skinner trooper and architectural studies of Mughal monuments and Hindu temples. Most of the paintings are recent acquisitions from private collections. Exhibition catalog forthcoming.

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    New Indian and Himalayan Art
    Place: Carlton Rochell Asian Art - New York, 24 East 80th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: We are pleased to present paintings, sculptures, and ritual objects from Tibet, Nepal, and India for this year’s Asia Week New York. Many of the works are drawn from international private collections and have been exhibited in various museum exhibitions. Highlights include a group of Tibetan Buddhist paintings (thangkas) which are of outstanding quality. We look forward to inviting you to our exhibition at Adam Williams Fine Art at 24 E. 80th Street.

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    New Contemporary Japanese Art including those by “Living National Treasures”
    Place: Onishi Gallery - New York, 521 West 26th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14th (5-8pm)

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    New Japanese Modern Masterpieces 1910-1950
    Place: Thomsen Gallery - New York, 9 East 63rd Street, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: We are pleased to present a collection of Japanese modern masterpieces from 1910 to 1950 in our gallery during Asia Week New York this year.

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    New Cosmic Sound: Master Paintings by Ken Matsubara
    Place: Ippodo Gallery - New York, 32 East 67th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Apr 04, 2024
    Detail: We are proud to present Cosmic Sound: Master Paintings by Ken Matsubara, a culmination of the artist’s concepts featuring 20 of the beloved painter’s unique artworks for this 15th year of Asia Week New York. Matsubara will showcase his series spanning his long and illustrious career, including three works depicting the auspicious and fearsome dragon zodiac, the spectacular 12-panel Kūkai’s View, and versions of Scenery and the Moon Sound.

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    New Time is a Construct
    Place: Kapoor Galleries - New York, 34 East 67th Street, Floor 3, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14, 6-8 pm

    Art serves as a compass for our conscience, guiding us across the vast dimensions of time and space. More than a visual representation, art embodies the very essence of culture, punctuating the canvas of existence with strokes of meaning.

    This exhibition serves as a pivotal moment in contemporary times, prompting a reevaluation of the relationship between art, culture, and their collective influence across time and space. The examination of Indian miniature paintings is a focal point of this introspection; the deliberate repetition of characters and spatial elements over centuries emerge as a nuanced artistic strategy. This repetition is hardly monotonous. Instead, the repetition reveals a profound symbolic depth in the continuity of timeless themes.

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    New Dragon Women: Early Chinese Photography
    Place: Loewentheil Photography of China Collection - New York, 10 W. 18th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14, 5-9pm

    We are pleased to present Dragon Women: Early Photographs of China during this year’s Asia Week New York, which offers a rare occasion to view some of the earliest photographs of Chinese women, most taken in the 1860s and 1870s. The exhibition explores women’s place in society in the final decades of imperial China, as well as the representation of Chinese women in photography, exposing female attitudes toward the camera in the late Qing dynasty. Also included are rare photographs by the first known Chinese female photographer, Mae Linda Talbot, and works by Hedda Morrison, and Isabella Bird, as well as masterworks by Chinese and international photographers such as Sze Yuan Ming Studio, Pun Lun Studio, A Chan Studio, Lai Fong, and John Thomson, whose Portrait of Three Women in Beijing, circa 1868, is on view.  We look forward to welcoming you to our New York location at 10 W. 18th Street, 7th Floor.

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    New Kelly Wang and Ren Light Pan: New Material Practices in INK Art
    Place: INK studio - New York, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: By appointment only

    Kelly Wang (b. 1992) and Ren Light Pan (b. 1990) are two emerging New York-based women artists who are redefining the material practices of Ink art. In one of her featured paintings, Brush Rest, Wang uses newspaper twisted into strands and sculpted into two-dimensional and three-dimensional landscape forms to transform the normally passive, absorbent ground of ink art—namely, paper—into an active, material inquiry into human society and nature. In contrast, Ren Light Pan, in her Sleep series paintings, uses the heat of her body and the physical, material properties of ink and water—namely, diffusion, absorption and evaporation—to indexically record her physical body in its sleeping state.

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    New A Pause in Time, An Emptiness in Space: Ma in Japanese Bamboo Art
    Place: TAI Modern - New York, 23 East 67th Street, Fourth Floor, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: This exhibition showcases extraordinary works by some of bamboo art’s most esteemed artists. On display are over forty masterworks, including the dramatic traditional Peony Basket by Kajiwara Koho, featuring a huge arching handle that creates an empty stage for flower arrangement. Hisatomi Muan presents a contemporary version of a circular-handled peony basket in his work aptly titled Space. Sculptural forms abound in our selection, such as the exuberant Setting Sun by Shono Tokuzo, an astoundingly delicate and airy woven sculpture titled Loop by Tanioka Shigeo, and Plume, a large sculpture by the up-and-coming young artist Hasegawa Kei. Hasegawa’s work was recently added to the collection of a prominent public art museum in America. Notably, Japanese Living National Treasure Fujitsuka Shosei’s The Sound of Waves will make its first appearance since the artist received this prestigious title.

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    New Chinese and Vietnamese Ceramics from American and Japanese Collections
    Place: Zetterquist Galleries - New York, 3 East 66th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 24, 2024
    Detail: Zetterquist Galleries is delighted to present an exhibition of Chinese and Vietnamese Ceramics, all sourced from American and Japanese collections.

    The Chinese pieces range in date from the Tang through Ming Dynasty, starting with a large Tang Dynasty whiteware jar, rare for its size and excellent condition. There is a selection of nine Song Dynasty pieces with fine examples of Ding, Yaozhou, Henan and Cizhou pieces from Northern China. From Southern China, there are elegant examples of Qingbai porcelains from the Hutien Kilns and a Jian-yao “Hare’s fur” tea bowl from a Japanese tea ceremony collection. From the Ming Dynasty there are two Longquan celadons; The barbed-rim charger with an ideal minty-green glaze color, and an exquisite “Gu” form vase, with Taoist trinary symbols, in an old lacquer box with silver inscription, also from a Japanese tea ceremony collection.

    Most of the Vietnamese selections come from the collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles, whose extraordinary collection of Chinese ceramics sold in these rooms last Spring. They collected Vietnamese ceramics with the same exacting eye for quality, condition and beauty with which they chose their Chinese wares. Representing Northern Vietnamese kilns from the Ly Dynasty (1009-1225) through the Le Dynasty (1428-1788), this scholarly collection includes wares of varied techniques, forms and functions. From the elegant Thanh Hoa pieces with Buddhist inspired form, to Blue and white porcelaineous pieces of excellent condition and intricate decoration, this group exhibits the finest of Vietnamese wares.

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    New Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Painting
    Place: Shibunkaku - New York, 39 East 78th Street, Suite 401, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Apr 19, 2024
    Detail: We are pleased to present Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Painting for this season’s Asia Week New York. The exhibit will focus on contemporary paintings by the artist Sekine Yoshio, who participated in the founding of the Gutai Art Association. He left Gutai in 1959 and pursued the creation of abstract canvases using real-life objects as motifs which attracted attention to his unique style, a “hybrid of figurative and abstract art,” We look forward to welcoming you to our exhibit at Joan B Mirviss LTD, 39 East 78th Street in New York.

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    New Literati and Rocks Amidst Verdant Bloom
    Place: Fu Qiumeng Fine Art - New York, 65 East 80th Street, Ground Floor, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Apr 13, 2024
    Detail: We proudly unveil our Asia Week New York exhibition, Literati and Rocks Amidst Verdant Bloom, a meticulously curated selection of classical and contemporary works that embodies the soul of Asian artistry.

    Highlights include Ruan Ji’s Poems in Running Script by Dong Qichang (1555-1636) and Scholar Rocks by Sun Kehong (1532-1610), which exemplify the pinnacle of literati taste in Chinese brushwork. Works by Wang Fu’an (1879-1960), C. C. Wang (1907-2003), and Wang Fangyu (1913-1997) further illuminate this rich lineage.

    Bridging past and present, the exhibition showcases contemporary artists who carry the torch. Arnold Chang (b. 1954) offers his latest breathtaking boneless landscape, while Michael Cherney (b. 1969) presents his powerful bilingual work that resonates with audiences navigating cultural intersections. Zhang Xiaoli (b. 1989) and Yau Wing Fung (b. 1990) contribute pieces that connect with younger generations, bridging the generational gap.

    Additional established artists include Hisao Hanafusa (b. 1937), Fung Ming Chip (b. 1951), Wang Mansheng (b. 1962), and Tai Xiangzhou (b. 1968), ensuring a diverse and enriching experience.

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    New A Discovery of Dragons
    Place: Kaikodo LLC - The Big Island, 27-760 Old Onomea Road, Hawaii, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Apr 18, 2024
    Detail: Our upcoming Asia Week New York online exhibition will showcase a Chinese Cizhou-ware Ceramic Pillow with Double-phoenix Décor. This stoneware pillow is a breathtaking example of a technique for producing ceramic decoration perfected by Cizhou potters during the 11th century of the Song dynasty in northern China. The remarkable precision apparent in the production of the rare double-phoenix design on the headrest of the pillow and the density and intricate placement of the stamped rings forming the ground are exemplary, producing an effect that is as close to refined metalware decoration as a potter could get.

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    New Eternal Partnership: Japanese Ceramics in Blue & White
    Place: Joan B Mirviss LTD - New York, 39 East 78th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 14, 2024 to Apr 19, 2024
    Detail: Special Asia Week Hours: Saturday March 16 11am-5pm and Sunday, March 17 12-5pm

    The most visually striking color combination for centuries, blue and white has been paired effectively in all types of Japanese art, but most prominently and successfully in its ceramics. For Asia Week New York 2024, we present the enduring legacy of this timeless aesthetic, and its dynamic expressions in Japanese contemporary clay, through the lens of the esteemed Kyoto-based Kondō family. Across multiple generations, their mastery of sometsuke (cobalt blue-and-white porcelain) culminates in the work of our celebrated gallery artist, Kondō Takahiro, who broke free of his forefathers’ traditions with his patented gintekisai “silver mist” overglaze on dramatic sculptural work.

    Eternal Partnership: Japanese Ceramics in Blue & White includes masterful work by twenty additional Japanese ceramic artists applying blue and/or white across a wide range of innovative forms and styles.

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    New Japanese Paintings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, 1760-1810
    Place: Sebastian Izzard LLC - New York, 17 East 76th Street, 3rd Floor, USA
    Date: Mar 15, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024
    Detail: March 15 – 22, 2024
    Special Asia Week Hours: Open daily, 11am-5pm (closed Sunday)

    Our spring exhibition explores the graphic culture of Edo in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The introduction of color printing in the 1760s led to new techniques which were quickly adopted by the skilled craftsmen employed by the publishers of the period. The exhibition also chronicles changes in fashions and political affairs that affected the world of ukiyo-e, both in representations of the licensed entertainment quarter of the Yoshiwara and the city at large. Suzuki Harunobu (1724–1770) and his contemporaries are represented as are his successors in the following decades such as Torii Kiyonaga and Kitagawa Utamaro.

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    New Korean Artists in Paris
    Place: HK Art & Antiques LLC - New York, 49 East 78th Street, Suite 4B, USA
    Date: Mar 15, 2024 to Apr 05, 2024
    Detail: March 15 – April 5, 2024
    Special Asia Week Hours: Monday-Friday, 11am-6pm (otherwise by appointment)

    We are pleased to present Korean Artists in Paris for this year’s Asia Week New York. Curated by Heakyum Kim and Pierre Cambon, the former curator at the Musée Guimet, this exhibition showcases the work of Chung Sanghwa, Shin Sung Hy, Nam Kwan and Kim Sang-lan, four Korean artists who have lived and worked in Paris. Known in both Korea and France, their successful careers cover a great span of time, from the 1950s to the present. Each artist demonstrates how the two countries impacted their work.

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    New Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art
    Place: Bonhams - New York, 580 Madison Avenue, USA
    Date: Mar 20, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Wednesday, March 20, 1pm EDT
    Viewing: March 13-19, 10am-5pm

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    New The Richard C. Blum and Senator Dianne Feinstein Collection of Himalayan Art
    Place: Bonhams - New York, 580 Madison Avenue, USA
    Date: Mar 20, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Wednesday, March 20, 11am EDT
    Viewing: March 13-19, 10am-5pm

    Accumulated over a 30-year period, the 42 works on offer worth more than $3 million from Richard C. Blum and Senator Dianne Feinstein’s collection are representative of the breadth and diversity of their taste, spanning 800 years from Tibet, Nepal, and Greater China.

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    New Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art
    Place: Christie's - New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, USA
    Date: Mar 20, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Wednesday, March 20 at 9am EDT
    Viewing: March 16–19, 10am-5pm

    This season’s sale features a wide selection of works from across India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. The sale is led by a group fine Himalayan gilt bronzes, foremost among them a rare Zanabazar style gilt-bronze figure of Green Tara from the Nyingjei Lam Collection. Other important Himalayan sculptures include a large and rare Western Tibetan silver-inlaid figure of Vairochana, a large 16th century Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of Amitabha and a 15th century Nepalese gilt-bronze figure of Chakrasamvara. The vast selection of Himalayan paintings highlights an important Eastern Tibetan painting of Ngor Abbots. The sale also includes a group of well-provenanced Gandharan works of art from a New York estate. The sale concludes with an impressive selection of Indian paintings, including a folio from the ‘large’ Guler-Basohli Bhagavata Purana series, several works from the workshop of the Kangra artist Purkhu, a portrait of Kashmir darners attributable to Bishan Singh, and an assortment of Company School and Early Bengal School works.

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    New South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Including Works from the Collection of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur
    Place: Christie's - New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, USA
    Date: Mar 20, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Wednesday, March 20 at 11am EDT
    Viewing: March 16–19, 10am-5pm

    We are honored to present a group of important modern works from the renowned collection of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur in this catalogue, including significant works by Francis Newton Souza, Sudhir Patwardhan and Nalini Malani. The Gaurs have devoted more than three decades to the patronage and promotion of South Asian Art in North America, building one of the finest and deepest collections over this period, and spearheading several museum exhibitions of works from this category across the continent from the early 2000s onward. Complementing these works are significant paintings by Sayed Haider Raza, Jehangir Sabavala, Maqbool Fida Husain, Sadanand Bakre, Ganesh Pyne, Manjit Bawa and Gulammohammed Sheikh. The catalogue also features works by pioneers of South Asian modernism Jamini Roy, Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Allah Bux and George Keyt, accompanied by important contemporary lots by Zarina, Nasreen Mohamedi, Sheila Makhijani and Salman Toor.

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    New Asian Works of Art: Session II
    Place: Doyle - New York, 175 East 87th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 20, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Wednesday, March 20, 10am EDT
    Viewing: March 15-18, 12-5pm

    Scheduled during Asia Week New York 2024, these highly-anticipated sales present the arts of China, Japan and elsewhere in Asia dating from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. Showcased will be porcelains, bronzes, jades, snuff bottles, pottery, scholar’s objects, furniture and paintings from prominent collections and estates.

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    New Asian Art Signature Auction
    Place: Heritage Auctions - New York, 445 Park Avenue, USA
    Date: Mar 20, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Wednesday, March 20
    Viewing: March 15–19, 10am-5pm

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    New The Joseph and Elena Kurstin Collection of Inro
    Place: Bonhams - New York, 580 Madison Avenue, USA
    Date: Mar 21, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Thursday, March 21, 10am EDT
    Viewing: March 13-20, 10am-5pm

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    New Fine Japanese and Korean Art
    Place: Bonhams - New York, 580 Madison Avenue, USA
    Date: Mar 21, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Thursday, March 21, 12:30pm EDT
    Viewing: March 13-20, 10am-5pm

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    New Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman
    Place: Christie's - New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, USA
    Date: Mar 21, 2024
    Detail: Auction: Thursday, March 21 at 9am EDT & Friday, March 22 at 9am EDT
    Viewing: March 16–19, 10am-5pm; March 20, 10am-2pm

    Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman features outstanding works from prominent institutional and private collections. The sale encompasses ceramics, cloisonné enamel, lacquer, jade carvings, scholar’s objects, textiles, and classical Chinese furniture. Highlights include a very rare Ge foliate dish from the Linyushanren collection, a Kangxi-period very rare and finely-cast imperial gilt-bronze figure of seated Amitayus, a pair of imperial gilt-bronze ritual bells from the Kangxi period, a carved huanghuali canopy bed, a group of important and massive jade vessels from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and more than a hundred works from the renowned Chinese art collector and philanthropist Dorothy Tapper Goldman. The sale also presents curated selections from noted private collections, such as archaic jades and ceramics from the Collection of Dr. Hiroshi Horiuchi, as well as Qing porcelains from the Collection of Professor and Mrs. Yu Chunming.

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    New Asian Art including the Tsang Family Collection of Chinese Paintings
    Place: Bonhams - Woollahra, Sydney, 97-99 Queen Street, Australia
    Date: Apr 10, 2024

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