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    New Masterworks: A Journey through Himalayan Art
    Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
    Date: Jan 29, 2021 to Jan 08, 2024
    Detail: Masterworks: A Journey through Himalayan Art explores major strands in the development of art from the Himalayan region covering a period of more than one thousand years, with objects drawn primarily from the Rubin Museum’s collection.

    Masterworks is organized geographically and chronologically, showcasing the diverse regional traditions of Tibet in relation to the neighboring areas of Eastern India, Kashmir, Nepal, Bhutan, China, and Mongolia. Juxtaposing the art of Himalayan regions over time sheds light on the geographic, historical, religious, and artistic interrelationships among these cultures.

    This ongoing exhibition reflects our evolving understanding of the relatively young field of Himalayan art. Masterworks is regularly updated as new art objects and texts come to light, reflecting the latest developments in the field. The current iteration features several loans from the Zhiguan Museum of Fine Art, which brings further depth to the themes and extraordinary craftsmanship demonstrated throughout the exhibition.

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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, 2021 to Jun 04, 2023
    Detail: Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces you to the main forms, concepts, meanings, and traditions of Himalayan art represented in the Rubin Museum collection.
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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 The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
    Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
    Date: Oct 11, 2021 to Oct 30, 2023
    Detail: Since it first opened, the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room has been one of the most popular installations at the Rubin Museum, providing an immersive experience inspired by a traditional shrine.

    Art and ritual objects are displayed as they would in an elaborate private household shrine, a space used for offerings, devotional prayer, rituals, and contemplation. The design of the Shrine Room showcases these objects while incorporating elements of traditional Tibetan architecture and the color schemes of Tibetan homes.

    For Museum visitors, this richly detailed, immersive installation provides an oasis for peaceful contemplation at the heart of the Rubin Museum.
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    New Shrine Room Projects
    Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
    Date: Nov 12, 2021 to Oct 30, 2023
    Detail: In dialogue with the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the center of the gallery, Shrine Room Projects is an exhibition series that features contemporary artists who reinterpret traditional and religious iconography. This juxtaposition provides visitors with the opportunity to reflect on the themes and symbols emanating from the Shrine Room.
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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 Kingfisher Headdresses from China
    Place: The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, USA
    Date: May 21, 2022 to May 21, 2023
    Detail: Since ancient times, Chinese poets have praised the plumage of the kingfisher, a bird widely found in the tropical regions of Asia.

    The brilliant turquoise-blue is not a pigment but results from the way their transparent feathers refract light. By the Song dynasty (960–1278), portraits of empresses showed them wearing headdresses adorned with kingfisher ornaments. Few examples of this fragile artistry have survived, and the earliest ones come from the tomb of the Wanli Emperor (reigned 1572–1620), in which archaeologists found four elaborate kingfisher crowns worn by his empresses.

    The vivid feathers were expensive, with the most prized specimens imported from Cambodia and Vietnam. Artisans cut them to shape before painstakingly pasting the feathers onto gilded metal backing that formed the structure of the headdresses. Precious and semiprecious stones such as rubies, agate, and jadeite as well as other valuable materials including amber, coral, and pearls added to the splendid effect. Although the most sumptuous examples were worn by empresses and consorts, aristocratic and wealthy women also wore kingfisher crowns and jewelry on special occasions such as birthdays and weddings. Popular motifs—bats, butterflies, dragons, and phoenixes—symbolized various aspects of good fortune.
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    New Recollections of Tokyo: 1923–1945
    Place: The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, USA
    Date: Jul 02, 2022 to Sep 25, 2023
    Detail: In 1923, Tokyo was devastated by the Great Kantō earthquake. Despite the destruction caused by this natural disaster, the city developed at an astounding rate over the next few decades. During this period, a number of printmakers documented their impressions of the city’s ruin and rebirth. While some of these prints depict the remnants of destroyed buildings, many more show people enjoying the city’s new developments, from the bustling Ginza shopping district to the fashionable cafés of Shinjuku. This modern urban landscape became a favorite subject for artists such as Oda Kazuma (1882–1956), a lithographer who portrayed Tokyo’s crowded streets and nighttime attractions.

    The allure of Great Tokyo, as it came to be called, would be short-lived. The area was firebombed by Allied forces during World War II, causing another round of devastation. The prints made in the period between the earthquake and World War II thus became a kind of time capsule. In 1945, some artists were prompted to reissue their scenes of urban life, along with new prints that were similarly nostalgic; this expanded series was called Recollections of Tokyo and the complete series is on view in this exhibition. A number of the scenes featured in these prints are recognizable today, including views of Tokyo Station, Ueno Zoo, and the bars and clubs of Shinjuku. Taken together, such representations of forgotten or lost places and buildings remind us of time’s passage and the ever-changing nature of a dynamic urban metropolis.
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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 Feb 17, 2025
    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 Jegi: Korean Ritual Objects
    Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
    Date: Aug 06, 2022 to Oct 15, 2023
    Detail: Rituals and customs help celebrate life’s milestones, remember the past, and mark time. In addition to their significance as social conventions, rituals often reaffirm state, governmental, and religious principles. In Korea, performing ancestral rites (jesa) is an enduring tradition that embodies respect for parents and the commemoration of ancestors, key tenets of Confucianism.

    During the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), Neo-Confucianism was the ruling ideology. People engaged in rituals on the birth and death anniversaries for ancestors upward of five generations, and on major holidays, such as the Lunar New Year and Chuseok (Harvest Moon Festival). Court ancestral rites became the bedrock of Joseon political life and were enacted on a grand scale that included musical and dance performances. A key feature throughout was a table bearing food and drink offerings presented on jegi, or ritual objects.

    This exhibition features the various types of ritual vessels and accessories that were used for this purpose and entombed, as well as the kinds of musical instruments played at state events. Though the vessels’ shapes, sizes, and materials may differ, a persistent feature is elevation, either through a high foot or a pedestal. In contemporary Korean society, no longer constrained by prescriptive state rules, jegi inspire contemporary artists and influence the form of everyday tableware.
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    New Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection
    Place: LACMA - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., USA
    Date: Aug 07, 2022 to May 21, 2023
    Detail: One of the earliest and best-preserved areas of artistic production across the globe, ceramics remain a vital field of expression and experimentation into the present. Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection explores the medium through 14 case studies, placing historical works in visual dialogue with contemporary examples to illuminate symbolic meanings, technical achievements, and resonances throughout time. The exhibition examines how artists working today relate to international artistic traditions of the medium, both through deliberate references to the past and by engaging with aspects of clay’s materiality that have inspired makers over the centuries. Drawing from LACMA’s wide-ranging collections, the exhibition also highlights many recent contemporary acquisitions, including works by Nicholas Galanin, Steven Young Lee, Courtney Leonard, Roberto Lugo, Mineo Mizuno, Elyse Pignolet, Paul Scott, and more.
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    New Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection
    Place: Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art. - 1050 Independence Ave SW, Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art., Washington, USA
    Date: Aug 13, 2022 to Feb 18, 2024
    Detail: Tomioka Tessai (1836–1924) exemplifies the modern Japanese painter. Contemporaries praised his avant-garde works, yet Tessai created his nonconformist paintings in a traditional way, basing them on ancient Japanese art and Ming and Qing paintings imported from China. Tessai’s teacher Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875)—nun, potter, calligrapher, poet, political activist—was at the vortex of immense political changes in Japan as the country’s feudal system collapsed and a constitutional monarchy was established. Rengetsu’s art, which harks back to inspirations from the twelfth century, inspired a generation of modern artists like Tessai.

    Meeting Tessai highlights a transformative gift of early modern and modern Japanese paintings and calligraphy from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection. It is also the first major American exhibition in five decades to explore the significance of pan–East Asian influences—a pertinent topic in today’s interconnected world—through the work of Tessai, Rengetsu, and modern Japanese painting.
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    New A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur
    Place: Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
    Date: Nov 19, 2022 to May 14, 2023
    Detail: Around 1700, artists in Udaipur (a court in northwest India) began creating immersive paintings that conveyed the mood (bhava) of the city’s palaces, lakes, and mountains. These large paintings and their emphasis on lived experience have never been the focus of an exhibition.

    With dazzling paintings on paper and cloth—many on public view for the first time—A Splendid Land reveals how artists conveyed emotions, depicted places, celebrated water resources, and fostered personal bonds over some two hundred years in the rapidly changing political and cultural landscapes of early modern South Asia.

    The exhibition is organized as a journey that begins at Udaipur’s center and continues outward: first to the city, then to the countryside, and finally to the cosmos. A soundscape by the renowned filmmaker Amit Dutta invites contemporary audiences to sense–and not just see—the moods of these extraordinary places and paintings.

    A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur will also be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Summer 2022.


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    New Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India
    Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 22, Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, India
    Date: Dec 10, 2022 to Jun 11, 2023
    Detail: Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India  foregrounds landscapes of India, real and reimagined, as powerful means of examining environmental and social issues concerning us all. Through still and moving image, seriality, and portraiture, five leading contemporary artists explore rapidly changing natural and built environments in India, from riverbanks, ancient forests, and city streets to surreal symbolic settings.

    Ravi Agarwal and Atul Bhalla convey the profound importance of water in human life, highlighting enduring social and cultural connections to the sacred yet endangered Yamuna River. Gigi Scaria and Ketaki Sheth produce dynamic and disorienting portrayals of life in New Delhi and Mumbai. Sheba Chhachhi composes a provocative self-portrait that evokes a profound relationship to place as well as to her own focus on the representation of women in visual culture. Dynamic and varied in scale, format, and content, Unstill Waters also celebrates the spectacular recent gift of Sunanda and Umesh Gaur, which significantly expands the museum’s holdings of South Asian photography.
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    New Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds
    Place: Asia Society - New York, 725 Park Avenue, USA
    Date: Feb 07, 2023 to May 07, 2023
    Detail: The first comprehensive exhibition in the United States to explore portrayals of hell across the Asian religious traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Islam, Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds, examines how systems of belief and the underworlds within them are manifest in the rich artistic creations of Asia.

    Exceptional and visually stunning artworks explore the impact of conceptions of hell on Asian visual culture over time. Didactic paintings, sculptures, and sacred objects introduce the notions of Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Islamic cosmology, as well as ideas about judgment, punishment, and salvation after death—many of which are shared by these traditions. Exhibition artworks portray religious threats of fiery torture as a means to shape values and beliefs, to instill virtuous behavior, and to encourage atonement for sins—reflecting a universal human desire for spiritual transformation.
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    New Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings 
    Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 23 & 24, Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave SW, USA
    Date: Feb 25, 2023 to Apr 28, 2023
    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.

    Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings will feature over two hundred remarkable artifacts—including jade ornaments, ceremonial weapons, ritual bronze vessels, bells, and chariot fittings—drawn exclusively from the museum’s permanent collection. Explore the early development of Chinese writing, enduring ritual practices, innovations in weaponry and warfare, advances in design and manufacturing, and the highly personal spaces of tombs, including objects chosen for the afterlife. The exhibition will include a series of digital activations developed in partnership with award-winning production studio UNIT9 that will allow visitors to dive deeper into the life of the city.
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    New Death Is Not the End
    Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
    Date: Mar 17, 2023 to Jan 15, 2024
    Detail: Death Is Not the End is a cross-cultural exhibition that explores notions of death and afterlife through the art of Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity. During a time of great global turmoil, loss, and uncertainty, the exhibition invites contemplation of the universal human condition of impermanence and the desire to continue to exist.

    The exhibition features prints, oil paintings, bone ornaments, thangka paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and ritual items, and brings together 58 objects spanning 12 centuries from the Rubin Museum’s collection alongside artworks on loan from private collections and major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library and Museum, Museum aan de Stroom in Antwerp, Wellcome Collection in London, Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City, San Antonio Museum of Art, and more.

    The exhibition is organized around three major themes: the Human Condition, or the shared understanding of our mortality in this world; States In-Between, or the concepts of limbo, purgatory, and bardo; and (After)life, focusing on resurrection, ideas of transformation, and heaven.

    Curated by Elena Pakhoutova
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    New Ay-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell
    Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 25, Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
    Date: Mar 25, 2023 to Sep 10, 2023
    Detail: Immerse yourself in Ay-Ō’s world of sensory experience, exploration, and fun.

    Born in 1931, the Japanese artist Ay-Ō (pronounced “eye-oh”) moved to New York in 1958, where he would soon become a member of the avant-garde group of artists, poets, and performers known as Fluxus. As a part of Fluxus, Ay-Ō produced many works that focus on tactile experiences, such as the Finger Boxes: wooden boxes with hidden compartments that contain objects participants can only touch, not see. It was around this time that Ay-Ō became known internationally as the “Rainbow Artist,” as he has felt compelled to produce rainbow works since the mid-1960s—a compulsion he describes as his own “rainbow hell” (niji no jigoku).

    By encompassing anything and everything within the visible light spectrum, Ay-Ō’s rainbow works are an exploration into visuality that is complementary to his tactile works. Driven by his vibrant sense of humor and curiosity, Ay-Ō’s greatest output has been in rainbow-hued silkscreen prints that cover a wide range of subjects, from treatments of the human body and the animal kingdom to abstract compositions and extending to rainbow reinterpretations of other artists’ works.

    Featuring over eighty artworks from the collections of the National Museum of Asian Art as well as several other US institutions, Ay-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell is the first ever exhibition dedicated to the artist’s work at a museum in the United States. The accompanying catalogue includes a message from Ay-Ō and an illustrated essay from his longtime printer Sukeda Kenryō (b. 1941), in addition to a biographical essay and extended catalogue entries that explore Ay-Ō’s legacy and the complexity of his rainbow obsession. The exhibition also features digital interactives that will allow visitors to engage with Ay-Ō’s spirit of playful exploration and optimism.

    This exhibition contains material not appropriate for all audiences. Parental discretion is advised.
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    New Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing
    Place: Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., USA
    Date: Apr 09, 2023 to Jul 16, 2023
    Detail: In the work of American artist Sam Francis (1923–1994), Western and Eastern aesthetics engage in a profound intercultural dialogue. Francis first traveled to Japan in 1957, developing a lifelong affinity for Japanese art and culture that influenced his work. His expressive handling of negative space shared pictorial and philosophical affinities with aspects of East Asian aesthetics, particularly the Japanese concept of “ma,” the dynamic between form and non-form. With over 60 works from LACMA’s collection and key lenders, this is the first exhibition to explore the artist’s work in relation to “ma” and other aspects of Japanese aesthetics. It will include works by Francis in the company of historic Japanese works to illustrate stylistic priorities shared by both. Also on view are works of contemporary Japanese artists (many associated with Gutai and Mono-Ha) whom Francis knew from his extensive time in Japan in the 1960s and ’70s.
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    New Shahidul Alam: Singed But Not Burnt
    Place: Wrightwood 659 - Chicago, 659 W. Wrightwood, Illinois, USA
    Date: Apr 14, 2023 to Jul 15, 2023
    Detail: Shahidul Alam: Singed But Not Burnt, the most comprehensive U.S. survey of the work of Shahidul Alam, renowned Bangladeshi photographer, writer, activist, institution-builder, and a Time magazine Person of the
    Year in 2018. With more than 80 black-and-white and color images, Singed But Not Burnt presents the breadth of Alam’s practice and impact throughout his four-decade career.
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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 The Door to Japanese Art
    Place: Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, 13-9 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Japan
    Date: Apr 01, 2022 to Mar 31, 2023
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    New ACM and Anima Mundi: Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums
    Place: Asian Civilisations Museum, Christian Art Gallery, Level 2 - Singapore, 1 Empress PIace, Singapore 179555, Singapore
    Date: Oct 01, 2022 to Oct 01, 2023
    Detail: From 1 October 2022
    Daily, 10am - 7pm
    Fridays, 10am - 9pm
    Christian Art Gallery, Level 2
    Asian Civilisations Museum

    Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) welcomes a selection of Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums in Rome, in its latest rotation of the Christian Art Gallery. Drawn from the Anima Mundi (meaning "Soul of the World"), these are little-known treasures of Christian art made in Asia.

    The public will be able to view up-close how the Catholic Church was able to integrate traditional Asian elements into its art. These intricate objects reveal the ingenuity of Asian artisans and craftsmen, who were able to adapt their work to incorporate foreign aesthetics and ideas that made them more appealing to local audiences. The artistic and cultural exchanges expressed through these works demonstrate how art can foster meaningful dialogue among religions and cultures.

    These beautiful creations complement the existing display containing masterpieces from Singapore's National Collection, reminding us of the history of religious harmony and tolerance amid diverse faiths around the world. ACM and Anima Mundi are one of the few museums that have dedicated a permanent space to presenting Christian works of art made in Asia, which tell important stories of love, diversity, and resilience.

    ACM and Anima Mundi: Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums is a part of ACM's year-long series of programmes and gallery rotations in commemoration of its 25th anniversary, dedicated to the cross-cultural connections and shared heritage of Singapore and the region. Objects in this collaboration will be available for public viewing for a period of one year



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    New Body & Spirit: The Human Body in Thought and Practice
    Place: Asian Civilisations Museum - Singapore, 1 Empress Pl, Singapore 179555, Singapore
    Date: Nov 25, 2022 to Mar 26, 2023
    Detail: ACM explores wellness and the wholeness of body, spirit, and mind with Body & Spirit: The Human Body in Thought and Practice. Featuring over 100 objects from the National Collection, private collectors, and local communities, this special exhibition presents a stunning display of sacred and ritual art from Singapore and the region. Join us in contemplating the many ways in which religions in Asia understand the human body through rituals, healing practices, pilgrimage, and divine images.

    Complementing the main exhibition are two special showcases. Buddha Relics displays gems and other precious offerings found together with bone relics of the Buddha in the Piprahwa Stupa in India in 1898. In Vel Vel: The Burden Dance (a project by Sistrum), learn more about kavadi — elaborate structures carried in Thaipusam, a yearly procession celebrated by Singapore’s Tamil Hindu community.
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    New The Splendor of Edo Painting - Part II: Kyoto art world and Edo Rimpa
    Place: Idemitsu Museum of Arts - Tokyo, 9th Floor, Teigeki Bldg., 3-1-1,Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Japan
    Date: Feb 21, 2023 to Mar 26, 2023
    Detail: The works collected by American collectors of Japanese art, Etsuko and Joe Price (Price Foundation) have been added to the Museum’s collection. This exhibition features works by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800) and Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-95) who vividly colored the Kyoto art world in the 18th century as well as paintings by Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828) who led the Edo Rimpa school. The exhibition will be held in two parts. The Edo period was a time of great prosperity in the history of Japanese painting with these prominent painters competing against each other. We hope you will enjoy the brilliant world of the gorgeous paintings by the master artists of the time.
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    New Asia Week New York
    Place: Throughout metropolitan New York - New York, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    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 C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
    Place: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery - New York, 132 East 68th Street, USA
    Date: Feb 02, 2023 to Apr 29, 2023
    Detail: Born to a family of scholar-officials at the twilight of the Qing dynasty, C. C. Wang (Wang Chi-ch’ien 王己千, 1907–2003) mastered the traditional ink and brush techniques in Republican Shanghai and immigrated to New York City in 1949. There he sought to preserve the tradition of classical Chinese painting through engagement with new ideas, materials, and forms. Drawing inspiration from past masters in the history of Chinese painting, as well as New York’s artistic climate in the wake of World War II, Wang advanced breakthrough transformations in ink painting.

    C. C. Wang is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art. Held twenty years after the artist’s death, C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction recenters Wang’s extraordinary career on his own artistic practice to reveal an original quest for tradition and innovation in the global twentieth century. Spanning seven decades, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s distinctive synthesis of Chinese ink painting and American postwar abstraction.

    In concert with the exhibition, the Hunter College Art Galleries are producing a comprehensive catalogue published in collaboration with the Weisman Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota and Hirmer Publishers. This book is the first retrospective monograph on the renowned artist, collector, and connoisseur C. C. Wang (1907–2003) and features texts by scholars Wen-shing Chou, Daniel M. Greenberg, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, and Arnold Chang with additional contributions by Hunter College Graduate Art History candidates and an undergraduate student from the University of Minnesota. Support for this publication is provided by the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
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    New Intangible Heritage
    Place: Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. - New York, 18 East 64th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 01, 2023 to Mar 31, 2023
    Detail: Opening reception: Thursday, March 16
    Monday-Friday 11am-5pm (otherwise by appointment)

    Dai Ichi Arts is delighted to present an exhibition of the exceptional works of Japan’s ceramic Living National Treasures, on the occasion of March Asia Week 2023. The exhibition showcases the masters of a range of ceramic techniques from porcelain to stoneware; from celadon to iron glazes. These sublime artworks take the potential of ceramics art to new heights.
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    New Spring Collection of Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art
    Place: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc. - New York, 16 East 52nd Street, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: March 16-24, 2023
    Asia Week Hours: Daily 10am-6pm
    (otherwise by appointment)
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    New Discoveries
    Place: Runjeet Singh @ Arader Galleries - New York, 1016 Madison Avenue, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16th, 5-8:30pm
    Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm
    Sunday 11am-5pm

    Arms, armor, and works of art from all over Asia.
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    New Fine Art from the Taisho/Showa Eras
    Place: Thomsen Gallery - New York, 9 East 63rd Street, Floor 2, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: The exhibition will feature folding screens and hanging scrolls from the Taisho era (1912-26) and early Showa era (1926-1989), a time of great change for Japan and its arts. Superb works were created for the domestic market, in contrast to the export-oriented output during the preceding Meiji era (1868-1912). Though most painters of the Taisho and early Showa eras typically remained focused on traditional themes, they often experimented with new materials and perspectives. They shifted from stylized depictions of nature to naturalistic botanical studies. Making trips abroad, many painters incorporated foreign elements from their travels into their work.

    Next to painting, bamboo baskets and intricate gold lacquer boxes from the Taisho and Showa eras will highlight the technical perfection in works of art that were executed in traditional formats and materials but explored new worlds of expression and design.
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    New Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Chinese Ceramics
    Place: Zetterquist Galleries - New York, Open by Advance Appointment Only, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Chinese Ceramics has been quietly and judiciously assembled over the last fifty years, purchased from many of the world’s finest dealers and auctions, with an eye for artistic beauty and excellent quality. Several of the works have illustrious early 20 th century provenance, including Cunliffe, Hellner, Bernat, Falk, Yamanaka, Eskenazi, and Lally.

    The fifty-six pieces offered span one thousand years from the 4th through 14th centuries, and include concentrations in white and sancai Tang Dynasty earthen wares, as well as Yue, Yaozhou, Ding, Qingbai, Jun, and Cizhou type wares, with black and brown kilns from Northern and Southern China represented.
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    New Court Painting from India
    Place: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. - New York, By appointment only, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm
    Saturday-Sunday, 11am-5pm
    (otherwise by appointment)

    Opening reception: Thursday, March 16, 5-8pm
    Victoria Munroe
    67 East 80 Street, Suite 2
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    New The Fabled Lands: Persian & Indian Paintings
    Place: Online: Art Passages - San Francisco, 3450 Sacramento St, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Online and In-person

    Art Passages are specialists in Indian and Persian paintings. Connoisseurship, research, and integrity form the foundation of our operation. Artworks from Art Passages are now in significant private collections, as well as in major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the LA County Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Musee du Quai Branly in Paris.
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    New Painted Clay: WADA MORIHIRO AND MODERN CERAMICS OF JAPAN
    Place: Joan B Mirviss LTD - New York, 39 East 78th Street Suite 401, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Standing at the center of a long tradition of ceramic surface decoration is Japanese artist Wada Morihiro (1944-2008), a revered master of intricate surface patterning. For Asia Week New York, Joan B Mirviss LTD is thrilled to present an exhibition of this past master’s oeuvre alongside the many Japanese artists who paint on clay, employing a wide range of techniques. These works by Wada’s predecessors and successors will stand in conversation with those by Wada. A fully illustrated catalogue with relevant essays will accompany the exhibition and will be available online.
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    New Recent Acquisitions at Thomas Murray
    Place: Online: Thomas Murray - Mill Valley, 775 E. Blithedale Ave #321, California, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
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    New Historic Works of Japanese Bamboo Art
    Place: TAI Modern @ Colnaghi - New York, 23 E. 67th St., 4th Floor, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: TAI Modern returns to this year's Asia Week New York to exhibit key contemporary and historic works of Japanese bamboo art. As the world's premier gallery for contemporary Japanese bamboo art, TAI Modern is honored to provide education and guidance to both established collectors and first-time viewers.


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    New Multiple Masters: Modern Prints & Paintings
    Place: Scholten Japanese Art - New York, 145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 25, 2023
    Detail: March 16-25, 2023
    A selection of early modern works by masterful artists who produced prints and paintings.
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    New Heated Colors, Hammered Forms: Female Metal Artists of Japan
    Place: Onishi Gallery - New York, 521 West 26th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Opening reception: Thursday, March 16, 5-8pm

    Onishi Gallery is proud to feature the best of Japanese metalwork and represents many of its leading contemporary practitioners, including nine who have been designated Living National Treasures. Our March exhibition, Heated Colors, Hammered Forms: Female Metal Artists of Japan, turns the spotlight on the contribution made by women to the revival of this demanding art form, highlighting seven female artists who are distinct in their personal modes of expression, but united in their embrace and adaptation of traditional methods.
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    New The Colors of the Postwar Japanese Abstract Arts
    Place: Shibunkaku @ Joan B Mirviss LTD - New York, 39 East 78th Street Suite 401, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: The Colors of the Postwar Japanese Abstract Arts presents a series of colorful artworks created by Japanese artists from the postwar period. The exhibition features abstract paintings by two important artists Yamaguchi Takeo and Domoto Insho, the masters of the Yōga and Nihonga respectively. They will also be showcasing the avant-garde calligraphy by two other great masters, Morita Shiryu and Inoue Yuichi. As another special highlight, they will include a valuable classic piece by a Mid-Edo period Zen priest, Hakuin Ekaku, who has inspired many artists with his Zen ideology and aesthetics, including Morita Shiryu.
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    New Divine Gestures: Channels of Enlightenment
    Place: Kapoor Galleries Inc. - New York, 34 East 67th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Opening reception, March 16, 6-8pm

    Bringing together some of the most rare and exquisite pieces of sculpture from India, Nepal, Tibet and ancient Gandhara, Divine Gestures: Channels of Enlightenment lies at the intersection of religious iconography and fine-craftsmanship. Iconography is often seen through a multivalent lens of factual discourse and the essence of it being a medium to channelize and embody the energy of the respective deity is often overlooked. This exhibit is an ode to the iconographic elements of a sculpture that bridge the tangible and intangible realms of art.
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    New Online: Ganesh Haloi: A space left behind
    Place: Akar Prakar - New Delhi, D-43, First Floor, Defence Colony, India
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Ganesh Haloi (born 1936) is a Kolkata-based artist, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). He moved to Calcutta in 1950 following the Partition of India. The trauma of displacement left its mark on his work as it did on some other painters of his generation. Since then his art has exhibited an innate lyricism coupled with a sense of nostalgia for a lost world. In 1956, he graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta. In the next year, he was appointed by the Archaeological Survey of India to make copies of Ajanta murals. Seven years later, Haloi returned to Calcutta. From 1963 until his retirement, he taught at the Government College of Art and Crafts. He has been a Member of The Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta since 1971.

    He has participated in several group exhibitions in India, Documenta 14 at Athens & Kassel, Greece/Germany; Architecture of Life, at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archives at BAM/PFA, Berkeley, California; 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin; A Special Arrow Was Shot in the Neck, David Roberts Art Foundation, London; and over the edge, crossing the line five artists from Bengal at KNMA, Delhi.
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    New Safety in Numbers
    Place: Online: Kaikodo LLC - The Big Island, 27-760 Old Onomea Road, Hawaii, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to May 31, 2023
    Detail: Online exhibition.
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    New Terumasa Ikeda: Iridescent Lacquer
    Place: Ippodo Gallery - New York, 32 East 67th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 16, 2023 to Apr 16, 2023
    Detail: Opening reception March 16, 6-8pm

    Ippodo Gallery New York illuminates a modern lacquer technique that disrupts preconceived notions of the raden (mother-of -pearl inlay) tradition. Terumasa Ikeda: Iridescent Lacquer—on showcases Terumasa Ikeda’s revolutionary laser-incised raden technique, a method the artist spent eight years developing. Ikeda was born and resides in Kanazawa, known as the country’s preeminent hub for lacquerware production. Arabic numerals, computer screens, and digital signals—all assembled from abalone shell—adorn the twenty object boxes, tea caddies, and incense containers.

    In various sizes, from cubes to hexagons to pyramids, Ikeda’s artworks are crafted from most precious materials: a base of Japanese native kiso hinoki wood is coated with innumerable layers of black urushi lacquer and decorated with gold leaf, gold powder, and mother-of-pearl. With a hand in each step of the fabrication, the pristine forms cut from wood and varnished with urushi lacquer perfectly accentuate the miniscule and intricate decorations of Ikeda’s design.

    The truly unique interpretation of the rare technique has made Terumasa Ikeda one of the most sought after raden artists of the new generation. For Ikeda, this technique is a most natural progression in keeping with the times; where once raden was dominated by images of the divine, Ikeda’s cutting-edge artworks assert that magic—really, the laws and values of our modern society—is one to ten and everything in between.
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    New Japanese Paintings and Prints: 1800-1860
    Place: Sebastian Izzard LLC - New York, 17 East 76th Street, 3rd Floor, USA
    Date: Mar 17, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Monday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
    (otherwise by appointment)
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    New Figures and Flowers
    Place: HK Art & Antiques LLC - New York, 49 East 78th Street, Suite 4B, USA
    Date: Mar 17, 2023 to Apr 06, 2023
    Detail: Monday-Friday, 11am-5:30pm
    (by appointment only)
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    New Manika Nagare: Spectrum of Vivid Moments
    Place: Miyako Yoshinaga - New York, 24 East 64th Street, USA
    Date: Mar 17, 2023 to Apr 22, 2023
    Detail: Tokyo-based Manika Nagare returns to AWNY with powerfully sophisticated color abstract painting eliciting vivid moments of all human life. The exhibition also introduces her new project on the marginalized Japanese female artists in the past.
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    New Fung Ming Chip: Traces of Time
    Place: Fu Qiumeng Fine Art - New York, 65 East 80th Street, Ground Floor, USA
    Date: Mar 17, 2023 to May 20, 2023
    Detail: Beginning March 17th, 2023, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art will mount a special presentation of Chinese artist Fung Ming Chip (冯明秋, b. 1951)’s latest series, Number Series, while also showcasing the artist’s unique approach to the medium of shufa (书法, the art of writing) through a selection of works taken from across his long career.  An accomplished poet, playwright, essayist, and seal carver, Fung’s latest works deconstruct shufa by exploring the connection between writing, self-representation, and time.

    Born in Guangdong and raised in Hong Kong, Fung began his artistic career after he moved to New York City in 1977.  His first experiments in seal carving (篆刻, zhuanke) deconstructed the forms of Chinese characters in this traditional medium. This engagement with the written word led Fung to a broader study of Chinese characters in the art of shufa.  Over the past forty years, Fung has invented dozens of distinctive “scripts” that employ a wide range of styles and non-traditional processes, each of which explores how shufa works to represent the artist’s practice unfolding in time.

    On view through May 20th, Traces of Time features 19 works that illuminate Fung Ming Chip’s evolving art practice and calligraphic philosophy in the past four decades. In the newest series Number Script, Fung builds upon his past experiments, using successive layers of Arabic numbers, inky washes, and calculated excisions to transcribe his full process of creation.  Every action – from the first stroke of his brush to his final affixture of his seals – is clearly legible on the page. Each work thus functions as an unbroken transcription of Fung’s artistic process and, by extension, a portrait of the artist himself.
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    New The Heart's Eye: In Search of Murata Gen
    Place: Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. - New York, 18 East 64th Street, Ste. 1F, USA
    Date: Apr 15, 2023 to May 19, 2023
    Detail: Dai Ichi Arts is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of the soulful works of Murata Gen in New York. The show will explore the plethora of vessels forms Murata explored, with an emphasis on his sensitivity for surface. “The Heart’s Eye: In Search of Murata Gen” illustrates the emotional and affectual potential of Mingei art from 20th century Japan.
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    New Tales of Tea: The Art and Story of Modern Japanese Tea Ware
    Place: Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. - New York, 18 East 64th Street, Ste. 1F, USA
    Date: Jun 05, 2023 to Jul 05, 2023
    Detail: Our upcoming summer show prompts us to gaze upon and read the stories of the cultures of Tea in Japan and in the West. How can we outline the relationship between the twofold categories: traditional/contemporary, form/function, East/West in the context of ceramic Kogei?
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    New Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
    Place: Christie's - New York, 20 Rockefeller Center, USA
    Date: Mar 23, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023
    Detail: Viewing
    17 Mar 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    18 Mar 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    19 Mar 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    20 Mar 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    21 Mar 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    22 Mar 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
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    New Fine Classical Chinese Paintings
    Place: Sotheby's - Hong Kong, 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, People's Republic Of China
    Date: Apr 06, 2023
    Detail: Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Classical Chinese Paintings auction will offer a rich array of works, from antique classics to excellent examples of Ming and Qing artistry. Lots will include Hermits among Woods and Spring attributed to Li Tang, Dong Bangda’s Bamboo Grove in Light Drizzle and Jiang Tingxi’s An Imperial manual of Birds recorded in Collected Treasures of the Stony Moat (Shiqu baoji), and Wang Yuanqi’s Landscape in four seasons and Letters dedicated to Zhang Xianyi.
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    New Fine Chinese Paintings
    Place: Sotheby's - Hong Kong, 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, People's Republic Of China
    Date: Apr 07, 2023
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    New The Legacy of HIRANO KOTOKEN
    Place: Sotheby's - Hong Kong, 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, People's Republic Of China
    Date: Apr 08, 2023
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    New Treasured by the Yongle Emperor: The T.Y. Chao Blue and White Ewer
    Place: Sotheby's - Hong Kong, 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, People's Republic Of China
    Date: Apr 08, 2023
    Detail: This superb blue and white ewer is absolutely unique and ranks among the most important pieces of blue and white from this seminal period in the history of Imperial porcelain, as it was made not just by the Imperial kilns, but for the personal use of the Emperor. The five-clawed dragon design is the most potent symbol of Imperial power, well-known from the following reign of Emperor Xuande and standardized throughout the rest of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but it appears for the first time during the Yongle period and this elegant ewer is among the very few examples known to be decorated with the blue-print of this important design. This masterpiece from the Yongle period has been hidden from public view since 1987, in one of the most confidential private collections since 1987, when it graced the cover of the T.Y. Chao auction catalogue.
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    New A Timeless Ode to Spring: The Dr Alice Cheng Falangcai Bowl
    Place: Sotheby's - Hong Kong, 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, People's Republic Of China
    Date: Apr 08, 2023
    Detail: Dr Alice Cheng’s Falangcai bowl ranks among the most legendary pieces ever to have been offered at auction and broke a world record for Chinese art when it was sold in 2006 for HK$151,320,000. It is a gem of Imperial porcelain, the delicate, creamy white body having been painted by master court enamellers in Beijing in close proximity of the Qianlong Emperor. The superb painting of two loving swallows beside a flowering apricot tree intertwined with a willow tree is complemented by a short poem evocative of the spring. During the latter years of the Qing dynasty, the bowl and its pair entered the collection of Captain Charles Oswald Liddell, whose collection was sold in 1929. One bowl entered the collection of Sir Percival David and is today the pride of the British Museum. The present bowl then entered the collection of Charles Ernest Russell, Barbara Hutton, J.T. Tai, Tianminlou, Robert Chang and since 2006 has been the crown jewel of the celebrated collection of Dr Alice Cheng.
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    New In His Majesty’s Palm: Exquisite Imperial Porcelain from the Alan Chuang Collection
    Place: Sotheby's - Hong Kong, 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, People's Republic Of China
    Date: Apr 08, 2023
    Detail: The collection of imperial porcelain of Alan Chuang ranks among the very finest ever assembled and includes masterpieces from the 14th to the 18th centuries, focusing on the greatest periods of imperial patronage during the Ming and Qing dynasties. This small selection from the collection that we have the privilege of presenting here highlights one of the underlying threads in the collection – a particular inclination towards exquisite porcelains, diminutive in size, that allow a perfect communion of the eye and the hand in their aesthetic enjoyment.

    This distinctive taste in Chinese porcelain has its roots in the unrivalled refinement of the emperors under whose patronage gems of porcelain were produced and have endured among Chinese connoisseurs over half a millennium. It is porcelain not as mere decoration, but as a rarefied, almost confidential pleasure to be savoured quietly. A dainty cup will only suffer the hand of a most adroit potter, while a diminutive canvas requires a most delicate brush and softest palette. The supreme delight for the connoisseur handling a small gem of porcelain does not reside either in the precise potting, elegant painting or the silkiness of the glaze, but rather in the confluence of all three at that very moment.

    This beautiful assemblage includes exquisite porcelains produced during the celebrated reigns of the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors and were passed down within the Forbidden City in Beijing until the fall of the Qing dynasty, before entering the collections of connoisseurs such as Edward T. Chow, Paul and Helen Bernat, Robert Chang and T.T. Tsui. Today, these diminutive treasures will once again pass hands and delight a new generation of connoisseurs.
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    New TRANSCENDENT FORM: Classical Chinese Art from the Yin Xue Tang Collection: Part 1
    Place: Sotheby's - Hong Kong, 5/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, People's Republic Of China
    Date: Apr 08, 2023
    Detail: The Yin Xue Tang collection of Chinese art was assembled over the last twenty years, away from the limelight, and represents the pinnacle of classical aesthetics in Chinese art. The collection is the work of an aesthete whose astute eye embraces Chinese art in all its many guises, whether ancient Buddhist sculpture, understated Song ceramics, exquisite Imperial porcelain, lacquer from all periods or historical works of art. An extraordinary sensibility for form, transcending time, medium or purpose, permeates the group and seamlessly flows from the generous, deep arched groove of an early 15th century guri lacquer, down the weathered, cracked cheek of a 13th century bodhisattva, to the elegant contraction of the body of a 12th century stoneware vase, to the drama and chaos of an ancient lingbi rock. Every object unlocks aesthetic possibilities and inspires fascination over the life and mind of the artist who produced it and the worshipper, aesthete or emperor who caressed it. The piece-de-resistance in the first part of the collection that we are offering this season is the extraordinary set of thumbrings so intimately entertwined with Emperor Qianlong’s life, passion for his Manchu heritage and enduring quest for political legitimacy, which offers a unique perspective into the mind of one of the most powerful men to have ever walked the earth.
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