MAR/APR 2018
VOLUME 49 - NUMBER 2
The main focus of our March/April issue is an exhibition whose theme is unprecedented at a Hong Kong museum—‘The Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia’, on view at the Liang Yi Museum from 20 March to 24 June. Featuring nearly 100 works on loan from across the globe, the show highlights the importance of the colour blue in the visual and material culture of the Persian world and its impact on artistic traditions elsewhere. Noorashikin binte Zulkifli introduces two Islamic folios lent by the Asian Civilisations Museum, while James D. Frankel discusses Islamic calligraphy on Chinese Ming dynasty blue-and-white porcelain.
Another major exhibition on view this spring is ‘Crowns of the Vajra Masters: Ritual Art of Nepal’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. John Guy traces the history of these crowns worn by Vajracharya priests and their relation to Buddhist practice.
The next three articles are related to the painting tradition. Stephen Addiss presents the work of some little-studied nanga artists; Jennifer Purtle writes on the Yuan dynasty artist Guan Daosheng and the perception of her oeuvre and persona, kicking off our new series ‘Women in Asian Art’; and Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen look at the collaborative works of contemporary artists Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney, on view this spring at The University of Hong Kong.
Included also among our line-up of features is an exploration of Chinese display stands, by Pascal Grange.
FEATURES
Noorashikin binte Zulkifli. Picturing Legends and Knowledge of the World: Two Illustrated Folios from the Asian Civilisations Museum
James D. Frankel. Muslim Blue, Chinese White: Islamic Calligraphy on Ming Blue-and-white Porcelain
John Guy. Crowns of the Vajra Masters: Tracing Nepalese Buddhist Ritual
Stephen Addiss. Forgotten Masters: Japanese Literati Painters in the Meiji Flux
Jennifer Purtle. Women in Asian Art: Guan Daosheng and the Idea of a Great Woman Artist
Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen. A Literati Dialogue: The Collaborative Art of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney
Pascal Grange. Supporting Treasures: Chinese Display Stands as Arbiters of Taste
Jay Xu. Reina: A Rhinoceros like No Other
Rob Linrothe. Art in Context: ‘This is it!’ Bihar for Art’s Sake
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Rui Oliveira Lopes. Book Reviews: Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio by Talinn Grigor
Karil J. Kucera. Book Review: Monks in Glaze: Patronage, Kiln Origin and Iconography of the Yixian Luohans by Eileen Hsiang-Ling Hsu
Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres. Exhibition Review: ‘The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+’
Anthony Wu. Chinese Works of Art Auction Highlights—Autumn 2017
Olivia Wang. Asian Paintings Auction Highlights—Autumn 2017
TEFAF Maastricht 2018
Asia Week New York
INTERVIEWS
Emerging Voices – Joseph Scheier-Dolberg
NEWS
Gautama V. Vajracharya. Mary Slusser (1918–2017)
Announcements
Gallery News
COMMENTARY
Rosemary Bandini. Commentary: The Proposed Ivory Ban in the UK