APR 2005
VOLUME 36 - NUMBER 3
Our focus in this issue is the San Antonio Museum of Art, and in particular its new Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Wing which opens in May and which will provide a dozen new galleries and exhibition space to display the museum's collcetion of more than 1,400 Asian works of art. Martha Blackwelder first introduces the various collectors who have donated so generously to the museum's Asian galleries. Julia Curtis looks at some of the Browns' collection of porcelain in the Chinese ceramics gallery and explains the decorative schemes. On a different note, Thomas Lawton shows the interaction between east and west through his narration on the life of Nomura Yozo who eventually becomes 'kurio king' in Yokohama. Back in China, Shih-shan Susan Huang explores the efficious and 'magic' power of 'mobile deities' in Song dynasty Buddhist and Daoist religious paintings. Beijing's flourishing, if not always controlled, auction scene is surveyed by Bruce Doar, while Laura Whitman reports on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee hearings which took place on 17 February to determine whether or not China's request for a control of imports to the US will be accepted. The universally important question of authenticity in museum collections - genuine article or fake? - is examined by Donna Strahan following an exhibition on forensic testing of artefacts.
FEATURES
Laura B. Whitman. China's Request: Is the US Government on the Verge of Shutting Down the Market in Chinese Antiquities?
Gautama V. Vajracharya. Mary Slusser
Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust
Inne Broos. 'Text and Image: Tibetan Books and Their Illuminations', Circle of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Shih-shan Susan Huang. Imagining Efficacy: The Common Ground between Buddhist and Daoist Pictorial Art in Song China
Thomas Lawton. Nomura Yozo: A Bridge Across the Pacific
Julia B. Curtis. Tales told in Porcelain: Jingdezhen Blue-and-White Wares at the San Antonio Museum of Art
Martha Blackwelder. The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Wing at the San Antonio Museum of Art
Martha Blackwelder. Asia in the Heart of Texas: A History of Collecting in San Antonio
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Fair Preview: Brussels Oriental Art Fair
Maggie C.K. Wan. Exhibition Review: 'Noble Riders from Pines and Deserts: The Artistic Legacy of the Qidan', Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Carol Morland. Exhibition Review: Dream Worlds: Modern Japanese Prints and Paintings from the Robert O. Muller Collection', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Hwang Yin. Exhibition Review: 'Rules by The Masters: Paintings and Calligraphies by Ba Da and Shi Tao - Collections from the Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum', Museu de Arte de Macau
NEWS
Maxwell K. Hearn. Obituary: Wai Kam-ho (1924-2004)
COMMENTARY
Donna Strahan. Commentary: Fakes, Copies and Question Marks: Forensic Investigations of Asian Art