JAN/FEB 2014

VOLUME 45 - NUMBER 1

This year marks the 45th anniversary of Orientations, which we are celebrating with a bold new design, as presaged by our website relaunch in June 2013. Founded in January 1970, Orientations has evolved into a specialist magazine focusing on new academic research into Asian art and archaeology, and on insights into the art market and collecting trends. This completely new look reflects the ongoing and proactive evolution of the magazine, both in content and visual appeal.

This issue, dedicated to the Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ (MNAO), opens with an interview with director Francesco di Gennaro, followed by MNAO’s Massimiliano Polichetti and Oscar Nalesini who look at aspects of the Tibetan and Nepalese collections. In anticipation of the museum’s groundbreaking exhibition and catalogue of its renowned thangka collection, Deborah Klimburg-Salter reflects on the culmination of a research and conservation project that has been a quarter of a century in the making.

Former museum director Donatella Mazzeo then discusses an important donation to the museum in 2005, and Paola D’Amore takes readers on a tour through the galleries. Also in this issue is Maxwell K. Hearn’s guide to a major exhibition of contemporary ink art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In other features, Josh Yiu pays tribute to Michael Sullivan, and Puay-peng Ho offers a brief history of Hong Kong’s iconic Hollywood Road.

We would like to thank all those who have contributed to the success of Orientations—our authors, readers and advertisers.

FEATURES
Massimiliano A. Polichetti. Giuseppe Tucci and the Tibetan and Nepalese Collections at the MNAO
Deborah Klimburg-Salter. When Tibet was Unknown: The Tucci Tibetan Expeditions (1926–48) and the Tucci Painting Collection
Oscar Nalesini. Pictures from a Legacy: The Tucci Photographic Archive
Donatella Mazzeo. A Major Donation to the MNAO
Paola D’Amore. Housed in History: A Guide to the Palazzo Brancaccio
Maxwell K. Hearn. Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Jessica Harrison-Hall. Book Review: From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain
Richard A. Pegg. Exhibition Review: ‘Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting’ University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (25 September–22 December 2013)
INTERVIEWS
Evolution of a Museum: An Interview with Francesco di Gennaro
NEWS
Donovan Michael Sullivan (1916-2013)
COMMENTARY
Puay-peng Ho. Window onto History: The Changing Face of Hollywood Road