SEP 2016
VOLUME 47 - NUMBER 6
Our first issue after our summer break celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (‘the Asian’). Leading this special issue, Director Jay Xu introduces some favourite works from the founding collection donated by Avery Brundage, including the iconic bronze rhinoceros. Other discussions explore the diversity of the museum’s extensive holdings, with curators in different fields focusing on a single object or area. These range from a Japanese political portrait and an early Himalayan thangka to an ivory dagger handle, a Goryeo celadon ewer and an inscribed jade cup, as well as to the surprising connections between a Qianlong porcelain and European textile designs, and reflections on half a century of contemporary art at the Asian.
In other features, Jan Stuart explores the surprising resonance between a Rothko painting and a Xuande period copper-red-glazed dish, on view at the Freer|Sackler this autumn, and Michelle Yun writes on Zao Wou-Ki’s early artistic influences, coinciding with the first-ever US retrospective of Zao’s work at Asia Society, New York, co-organized with Colby College Museum of Art.
Looking forward to 2017—our 48th year in publication—we have exciting plans in store. Significantly, we will be relaunching as a bi-monthly, signalling an increase in both the quantity and level of content in each issue and coverage of a wider geographical region. Look out for new categories as well in the year ahead!
FEATURES
Jay Xu. Collecting Asia: Avery Brundage’s Masterpieces in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Yuki Morishima. Portrait of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Recognition and Commemoration in a Japanese Portrait
Dany Chan. ‘Adding Flowers on Brocade’: Shared Aesthetics of a Qianlong Porcelain and Rococo Textiles
Hyonjeong Kim Han. A Goryeo Dynasty Celadon Ewer at the Asian
Jeffrey Durham. Virtual Shrines and Virtual Teachers: Hidden Patterns in an Early Thangka Painting
Natasha Reichle. Getting a Grip on the Demonic: An Ivory Kris Hilt from Indonesia
Qamar Adamjee. Mughal Emperor Jahangir’s ‘Life-Prolonging’ Jade Cup
Karin G. Oen. Multiplicity of Medium and Message: 50 Years of Contemporary Art at the Asian
Jan Stuart. ‘Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko’: An Exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Michelle Yun. A Consideration of Zao Wou-Ki within the Context of International Post-war Abstraction
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Elliat Albrecht. Exhibition Review ‘Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power’
Parcours des Mondes—Preview Highlights
Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris—Preview Highlights
Anthony Wu. Chinese Art Auction Highlights—Spring 2016
Edie Hu. Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Market Highlights—Spring 2016
NEWS
Marilyn A. Papp (1931–2016)
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