Calendar of Events

Did the Japanese Inrō have European origins?
Thursday, October 31, 2013
13.00 - 13.45

Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Meeting Point: Grand Entrance

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2211
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/whatson

Admission free

By Julia Hutt, Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum

Exhibition: Worlds of Paper and Wood
Thursday, October 31, 2013
18.00 - 21.00

Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art
Store Street Gallery
32 Store Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7BS

Phone +44 (0)20 7580 2118
Mobile +44 (0)7906 638 640
Website: www.artnet.com/razran.html

Admission free

Preview of the exhibition organised by Asian Art in London participant, Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art

Silver from the Malay World
Friday, November 1, 2013
10.00 - 17.00

Victoria and Albert Museum, Research Seminar Room A
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2322
Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2244
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/whatson

Admission free, places limited, booking essential by 25 October

Explore the rich traditions of silver in the Malay world, from intricate ornament, to exquisite techniques and rare inscriptions.

Chinese Jades from the Woolf Collection
Friday, November 1, 2013
12.00 - 16.30 closed Saturday, Sunday 12.00 - 17.00 Monday & Last Day 09.00 - 16.30

Sotheby's
34/35 New Bond Street
London W1A 2AA

Website: www.sothebys.com
Email:

Admission free

Exhibition running concurrently with viewing of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auction, 1 - 5 November.

Collectors and scholars: Charles Stuart, Markham Kittoe and the British Museum collections
Friday, November 1, 2013
13.15 - 14.00

British Museum, Room 33
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG

Phone +44 (0)20 7323 8299
Email:
Website: www.britishmuseum.org

Admission free

By Cam Sharp Jones, British Museum

From Tradition to Avant-Garde: The Globalisation of Contemporary Asian Art
Friday, November 1, 2013
14.00 - 16.00

Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Beaumont Street
Oxford OX1 2PH

Phone +44 (0)1865 278 015
Email:

Adults £8, concessions £7, incl. tea; booking essential

By Jasleen Kandhari
Explore dynamic representations of pop art and culture from Asia, including India, Tibet, Japan and China.

Mapping the Silk Road
Friday, November 1, 2013
18.30

The British Library Conference Centre
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Phone +44 (0)20 7412 7685

Email:

Admission free

The challenges of mapping the Silk Road and its sites for the UNESCO-ICOMOS Silk Road project by Tim Williams, University College London.
Organisation: The International Dunhuang Project, The British Library.

Qalam: The Art of Beautiful Writing
Saturday, November 2, 2013 to Sunday, January 26, 2014

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Chamberlain Square
Birmingham B3 3DH

Phone +44 (0)121 303 1966
Email:
Website: www.bmag.org.uk

Admission free

Featuring calligraphy in Islamic art from inception to the present day, this exhibition includes manuscripts, objects and contemporary art.

Cultural and Multicultural Narratives in Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art
Saturday, November 2, 2013
12.00 noon

Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art
Store Street Gallery
32 Store Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7BS

Phone +44 (0)7906 638 640
Email:

Admission free

Late Night Opening Kensington Church Street
Saturday, November 2, 2013
17.00 - 21.00

Kensington Church Street
London W8

Admission free

Receptions will be held at:
Gregg Baker Asian Art, Fleurdelys Antiquités, Marchant,The Tolman Collection, London (by prior appointment), Jorge Welsh Oriental Porcelain & Works of Art

Juxtaposing the 'old' with the 'new' in association with the new publication from Phaidon, The Chinese Art Book
Sunday, November 3, 2013
12.00 - 13.00

Sotheby's
34/35 New Bond Street
London W1A 2AA

Email:

Admission free, places limited, booking essential

In Between: 21st Century Tibetan Artists respond to 12th-15th Century Tibetan Manuscript Covers
Sunday, November 3, 2013
15.30 - 16.30

Rossi & Rossi
16 Clifford Street
Mayfair, London W1S 3RG

Phone +44 (0)20 7734 6487
Email:
Website: www.rossirossi.com

Admission free, seated limited, booking recommended

Round-table discussion examining the themes of the show of the same name, including: the meaning of the manuscript covers, the recent history of Tibet, what it means to be Tibetan and the artists' responses to these covers.

With academics:
Dr Clare Harris, Curator, Asian Collections, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford
Emma Martin, Head of Ethnology, World Museum, Liverpool

Talking with Tibetan contemporary artists:
Kesang Lamdark
Tashi Norbu
Tenzing Rigdol
Tsherin Sherpa

Drinks afterwards allow for an informal chance to talk to the participants.

Late Night Opening in St James's
Sunday, November 3, 2013
17.00 - 21.00

St James's, off Piccadilly
London SW1

Phone +44 (0)20 7499 2215

Admission free

Receptions will be held at: Joost van den Bergh, Brandt Asian Art, Christie's, Rob Dean Art, Malcolm Fairley Ltd, Gibson Antiques Ltd, Grosvenor Gallery, Thomas Heneage Art Books, Christophe Hioco, Ben Janssens Oriental Art Ltd, Antoine Lebel, Meijering Art Books, One East Asia, Priestley & Ferraro, Simon Ray Indian & Islamic Works of Art, Alexis Renard, Röell Fine Art, Grace Tsumugi Fine Art Ltd, Jonathan Tucker Antonia Tozer Asian Art.

The Imperial Luohans of Zhongdu
Sunday, November 3, 2013
18.00 - 20.00

Christie's
8 King Street, St James's
London SW1Y 6QT

The Oriental Ceramic Society, PO Box 517
Cambridge CB21 5BE

Phone +44 (0)1223 881328
Email:
Website: www.ocs-london.com
Website: www.christies.com

Admission free. Seated Limited
Booking essential: rsvp@christies.com / Harriet McCann
Events Coordinator: +44 (0)20 7389 2858
Priority given to OCS members.

By David Gillman, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation Organisation: Christie's and the Oriental Ceramic Society.

The Sultans and Maharajas of India
Monday, November 4, 2013 to Thursday, November 7, 2013
10.00 - 17.00 daily

SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG

Phone +44 (0)20 7898 4451
Email:

This specialist course looks at the rich culture of the Sultans and Maharajas of India from the 16th-18th century. Paintings, decorative arts and jewellery are seen against a backdrop of palace architecture.
Organisation: Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art SOAS.

Asian Art
Monday, November 4, 2013
10.30

Bonhams Knightsbridge
Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge
London SW7 1HH

Website: www.bonhams.com/asian

Silver from the Malay World
Monday, November 4, 2013
13.00 - 13.45

Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Meeting Point: Grand Entrance

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2211
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/whatson

Admission free

By Sau Fong Chan

The J.P. Losty Talk: Mughal Paintings from a Princely Collection
Monday, November 4, 2013
16.30 - 17.30

Francesca Galloway Ltd
31 Dover Street
London W1S 4ND

Phone +44 (0)20 7499 6844
Website: www.francescagalloway.com

Admission free

By J.P. Losty

Late Night Opening in Mayfair
Monday, November 4, 2013
17.00 - 21.00

Mayfair
London W1
Asian Art in London
Phone +44 (0)20 7499 2215

Admission free

Receptions will be held at: David Aaron Ancient Arts, AR PAB Álvaro Roquette - Pedro Aguiar-Branco, Art Passages, David Baker Oriental Art Ltd, Berwald Oriental Art, Bonhams, Browse & Darby, Prahlad Bubbar, Dalton Somaré, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, Duchange & Riché, Eskenazi Ltd, The Fine Art Society, Sam Fogg, Francesca Galloway, Michael Goedhuis, Hanga Ten, Kaikodo, Roger Keverne Ltd, Lyon & Turnbull, Sydney L. Moss Ltd, Simon Pilling: East Asian Art & Interiors, Nicholas Pitcher Oriental Art Ltd, Rossi & Rossi, Shapero Rare Books, Jacqueline Simcox Ltd, Sotheby's, A&J Speelman Ltd, Vanderven Oriental Art

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
14.00

Christie's
8 King Street, St James's
London SW1Y 6QT

Website: www.christies.com

Arts and Crafts of India under the Raj
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
14.30 - 15.30

Winter Fine Art & Antiques Fair
National Hall, Olympia Exhibition Centre
London W14 8UX

To prebook please register at www.olympia-antiques.com/india
or call +44 (0)20 7384 8148

Admission free with a valid ticket to Olympia fair

By Arthur Millner, specialist and writer on Indian and Islamic Art.
A fascinating talk examining the long standing craft tradition in India which has evolved under different waves of foreign influence. From the European colonial influence of expatriate foreigners to the influx of imported European goods in the Victorian era that revived the traditional crafts, the lecture focuses on the extraordinary range of forms, techniques and materials, and the wide geographical spread across the subcontinent. Many of these traditions survive today in modern India.

The William Cohn Memorial Lecture
Pocket Qur'ans: A Turning Point in Medieval Islamic Culture
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
17.15

Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Beaumont Street
Oxford OX1 2PH

Phone +44 (0)1865 278 067
Email:
Website: www.ashmolean.org

Admission free, booking recommended

By Professor Robert Hillenbrand

Asian Art in London Gala Party
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
18.30 - 21.00

Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Phone +44 (0)20 7499 2215
Email:

£60 per person; admission by ticket only.
To purchase a ticket, please contact Asian Art in London.

To celebrate the sixteenth year of Asian Art in London, a champagne reception will be held in The Dome, Victoria and Albert Museum.

Chinese Interiors
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
10.00

Christie's South Kensington
85 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington
London SW7 3LD

Website: www.christies.com

Curating the Contemporary in China
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
10.00 - 17.00

Chinese Arts Centre, Market Buildings
13 Thomas Street
Manchester M4 1EU

Phone +44 (0)7931 581029
Email:
Website: www.chinese-arts-centre.org

£25 (concession & student rate £15)

Discussing the contemporary landscape, and potential of, current curatorial practice in, and related to China with guest speakers from Hong Kong, China and the UK.
Organisation: Chinese Arts Centre, in partnership with Kingston University.

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
10.00

Sotheby's
34/35 New Bond Street, Mayfair
London W1A 2AA

Website: www.sothebys.com

The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part IV
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
10.30 and 14.30

Bonhams
101 New Bond Street, Mayfair
London W1S 1SR

Website: www.bonhams.com

Exquisite Enamels: Japanese Cloisonné
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
10.30 - 16.30

Victoria and Albert Museum, Sackler Centre
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2211
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/workshops

Admission free, booking essential

By Jane Short
Join expert enameller Jane Short for this workshop celebrating Asian Art in London. You will learn how to master a range of simple decorative techniques on copper blanks before completing your own small design to take home. The V & A thanks Edwin Davies CBE for generously supporting this workshop.

Form and Function: A Square Huanghuali Table
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
12.30

The Burrell Collection, Pollok Country Park
2060 Pollokshaws Road
Glasgow G43 1AT

Phone +44 (0)141 287 2550
Website: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums

Admission free

By Dr Yupin Chung, The Burrell Collection Curator of Chinese Art, in cooperation with Thomas Jacobi, Marywood Institute. As part of the Ming Furniture series, this talk explores the exceptional craftsmanship in the golden age of classic Chinese furniture.

Introducing the Exhibition 'Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900'
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
13.00 - 13.45

Victoria and Albert Museum, Hochhauser Auditorium
Sackler Centre, Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2211
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/whatson

Admission free

By Zhang Hongxing
Introduces the themes and highlights in this ground-breaking international loan exhibition.

The Sonia Lightfoot Paintings Lecture: New Clothes for the Emperor, Painting and Exoticism under Hui-tsung (Huizong) (1101-26)
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
18.00

The Society of Antiquaries
Burlington House, Piccadilly
London W1J 0BE

Oriental Ceramic Society
Phone +44 (0)1223 881 328
Email:
Website: www.ocs-london.com

Admission free, booking essential, priority to OCS members

By Howard Rogers, President, Kaikodo LLC
Organisation: The Oriental Ceramics Society

Orchha not Mandu, 1592 not 1634: A Revolutionary View of 'Malwa' Painting
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
18.30 - 19.30

SOAS, Brunei Gallery, Room B102
University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG

Email:

Admission free, booking essential

By Dr Konrad Seitz
Organisation: Indian Art Circle

Squaring the Circle: Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
19.00

One East Asia, Gallery 8
8 Duke Street, St James's
London SW1Y 6BN

Email:

Admission free, booking essential

By Viv Lawes and Daniel Komala

Fine Chinese Art
Thursday, November 7, 2013
10.00

Bonhams
101 New Bond Street, Mayfair
London W1S 1SR

Website: www.bonhams.com

Fine Japanese Art including two masterpieces by Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883-1959)
Thursday, November 7, 2013
10.30 and 14.30

Bonhams
101 New Bond Street, Mayfair
London W1S 1SR

Website: www.bonhams.com

Exquisite Enamels: Japanese Cloisonné
Thursday, November 7, 2013
10.30 - 16.30

Victoria and Albert Museum
Sackler Centre, Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2211
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/workshops

Admission free, booking essential

By Jane Short
Join expert enameller Jane Short for this workshop celebrating Asian Art in London. You will learn how to master a range of simple decorative techniques on copper blanks before completing your own small design to take home. The V & A thanks Edwin Davies CBE for generously supporting this workshop.

The Korean Gallery at the V & A
Thursday, November 7, 2013
13.00 - 13.45

Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Meeting Point: Grand Entrance

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2211
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/whatson

Admission free

With Rosalie Kim
Tour of the Korean Gallery at the V & A with a focus on the latest acquisitions.

Nataraja in the culture of South India
Thursday, November 7, 2013
13.15 - 14.00

British Museum, Room 33, Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2322
Email:
Website: www.britishmuseum.org

Admission free

By Richard Blurton, British Museum

Chinese Painting
Thursday, November 7, 2013
14.00 - 18.00; Reception 18.00

Sotheby's Institute of Art
30 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3EE

Joanne Rhymer
Phone +44 (0)20 7462 2490
Email:
Website: www.sothebysinstitute.com

£95 (£85 if booked by Tuesday, 1 October)

This half-day course explores Chinese Painting from 700-1900, providing an overview of its rich history throughout the dynasties. Aligned with Asian Art in London 2013, the course also serves as an introduction to the Victoria & Albert Museum's celebrated exhibition Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900.

Woven Elegance: The Evolution of Kashmir Shawl Art
Thursday, November 7, 2013
16.00 Textiles Gallery (Ashmolean) 18.00 Pauling Centre

Textiles Gallery, Ashmolean Museum
Oxford
and
The Oxford Asian Textiles Group, The Pauling Centre
58 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6QS

Email:

£2, incl. refreshments, OATG members free

By Jasleen Kandhari
From the Mughal and Sikh eras to the contemporary times.
Followed by a handling session and a visit to the new Kashmir shawl display at the Ashmolean Museum.

The Annual Benjamin Zucker Lecture on Mughal Art: Jahangir's Gulshan Album and its marginal decorations
Thursday, November 7, 2013
19.00 - 20.00 followed by a reception (doors open Exhibition Road entrance 18.30)

Victoria and Albert Museum
(Entrance via Exhibition Road entrance)
The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Phone +44 (0)20 7942 2244
Wheelchair access +44 (0)20 7942 2244
Website: www.vam.ac.uk/whatson

Admission free

By Milo Cleveland Beach, Former Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art & Textiles
Friday, November 8, 2013
10.30 and 14.00

Christie's South Kensington
85 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington
London SW7 3LD

Website: www.christies.com

The Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art and Culture.
Tokugawa Japan: Ideologies in Conflict - The Confucian Scholar
Friday, November 8, 2013
18.15

Stevenson Lecture Theatre
The British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG

Sainsbury Institute
64 The Close
Norwich NR1 4DH

Phone +44 (0)1603 597507
Email:
Website: www.sainsbury-institute.org

Admission free, places limited

By Professor Richard Bowring, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge
The Toshiba Lectures provide a public platform for a senior scholar of Japanese studies to present a research project, which is already well-developed. First in a series of three lectures to a broad public audience.
Organisation: Sainsbury Institute for The Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures

Oriental Coinage
Saturday, November 9, 2013
10.30 - 16.00

British Museum
Department of Coins and Medals, Gallery 69a
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG

Email: /
Website: www.orientalnumismaticsociety.org

Admission free, booking essential

Lectures on different aspects of Oriental coinage.
Organisation: The Oriental Numismatic Society

Calligraphy in Islamic Art
Saturday, November 9, 2013
14.00 - 16.30

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
AV room
Chamberlain Square
Birmingham B3 3DH

Phone +44 (0)121 303 1966
Email:
Website: www.bmag.org.uk

Admission free, places limited, booking essential www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=2854

With Dr Alain George, Dr Venetia Porter, Soraya Syed
To accompany the exhibition 'Qalam: The Art of Beautiful Writing' join us for lectures by leading scholars and practitioners.

The Art of Being A Part: Two South African-born Asian Artists in Dialogue - Clifford Charles and Anthony Key
Saturday, November 9, 2013
15.30 - 18.30

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 0RN

Email:
Website: www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/index.shtml

Admission free, booking essential

This symposium explores the work of two artists of Indian and Chinese ethnic descent, who spent their formative years under apartheid in South Africa.
Organisation: The Courtauld Institute of Art

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