Masterworks of Japanese Art
Leighton R. Longhi, New York (by appointment)
Ongoing
Among the screens and paintings from the Muromachi to the Edo period is Portrait of a Young, Sleeping Cat, in ink and colour on paper by the 18th century artist Maruyama Okyo.
Malleable Memory
Aicon Gallery, 35 Great Jones Street, New York
Until 11 September 2010
Featuring works by Jaishri Abichandani, Eric Ayotte, Shelly Bahl, Ruby Chishti, Mike Estabrook, Chitra Ganesh, Gisela Insuaste, Mala Iqbal, John Jurayj, Jen Liu, Naeem Mohaiemen, Sandeep Mukherjee, Nitin Mukul, Anjali Srinivasan and Jaret Vadera. The artists ask us to embrace our inherently subjective interpretations of both personal and collective histories through the evolving and illusive device of memory and the complicated ways such informs our understanding of ourselves, our pasts and our futures. They reveal a variety of positions, a multiplicity of voices drawing upon their own memories, expressing their own truths. Each has a kind of accuracy, yet are often at odds with grand narratives and official accounts, undercutting neatly kept categories and borders. Through the various mediums, these artists examine the conceptions and expectations of reality each with their own unique interpretation. They present to us the idea of memory as a continuous and multifaceted representation in a constant state of flux. What emerges is a kind of objectivity that rests less upon tangible reference points, but rather associative recollections. Whether appropriated and reconfigured from popular sources, or registered as pigment on a surface, works in this show explore the crafting of reality, and how memory serves us.
150 Years of Tansu
Shibui Gallery, 306 Water Street, Dumbo
Until 30 September 2010
As part of a celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the first Japanese diplomatic delegation to New York, this show demonstrates `how tansu chests evolved along with the social, technological and political changes in Japan over the last 150 years’. 20 important tansu `define Japan’s cabinetry heritage, and reflect on 150 years of Japan’s economic expansion and influence’.
Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
Baltimore Convention Center, Downtown at the Inner Harbor, One West Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland
2 – 5 September 2010
20th century Japanese prints & paintings: 10th anniversary exhibition
Scholten Japanese Art at New York Asia Week, 145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D, New York
2 – 18 September 2010
This exhibition, marking the galley’s 10th year in New York, is a reflection of their continuing interest in the intertwining development of Japanese woodblock prints from the early to mid-20th century by artists who designed shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga. Twenty to thirty woodblock prints and a few original paintings will be on view such as works by Hashiguchi Goyo, Kaburagi Kiyokata, Ito Shinsui, Kobayakawa Kiyoshi, Kitano Tsunetomi, Takahashi Hiroaki, Kawase Hasui and Torii Kotondo.
Ancient Cultures Linked Through Gold and Silver
TK Asian Antiquities, Fuller Building, Suite 1125, 41 East 57th Street, New York
8 - 25 September 2010
An exhibition showcasing early Eurasian gold and silver objects, many of which have been scientifically dated and authenticated. One of the star pieces is a pierced c. 22k gold perfumer/censer with a dragon-and-phoenix motif dating to the 8th to the 10th century. Its material, workmanship and subject matter indicate a royal provenance.
Important Sculpture and Painting from India, Southeast Asia and the Himalayas
Carlton Rochell Asian Art, 44 East 74 Street, New York
9 – 17 September 2010
An exhibition encompassing eighteen works of art from the region. One highlight is a Central Tibetan circa 12th century group of Chakrasamvara and Vajravahi in brass with silver and pigment. It has been exhibited widely in museums and was in the collection of the Zimmerman family for several decades. From India are two Buddhist sandstone images from the Kushan period, stone and bronze works from the north and south representing Hindu divinities.
Flora, Fauna, and Sacred Geometry: A Timeless Presence
Nancy Wiener Gallery, 2109 Broadway, New York
10 - 18 September 2010
Among the Indian and Southeast Asian images of devotion on view is a 19th century Tibetan thangka depicting a form of Vajrayogini in her double-tetrahedron-shaped abode in ground pigments and gold on cloth. A gilt-bronze Khmer Hanuman is shown kicking out his leg for a giant leap across the universe, and a pre-Angkorian Ganesha merges the human and the animal in a single form.
Joint Exhibition by Leiko Coyle, Arnold Lieberman and Theresa McCullough
at 311 East 72nd Street, New York
10 - 17 September 2010
Three galleries are joining forces again for September Asia Week. Leiko Coyle is exhibiting ‘Recent Acquisitions’ such as Tibetan thangkas from the 14th to the 19th century. Complementing these works on fabric is sculpture from Tibet, Nepal and India. A large grey stone relief of Ganesha, the Hindu deity of prosperity and good fortune, is one of the highlights.
Arnold Lieberman’s recent acquisitions from South Asia and the Himalayan region include a large 17th-18th century Tibetan thangka depicting Sri Devi and a 19th century gilt-brass image of Ganapati from Nepal.
In her exhibition ‘Masters of the Bikaner School’, Theresa McCullough will show paintings and some of the earliest known brush drawings (siyah kalam) from this Rajput tradition. A painting titled A Royal Procession, in opaque watercolour on wasli, is attributed to the 18th century artist Isa (Iss ji), son of Ahmed ji.
Literati Musing: Inscriptions on Chinese Paintings and Scholar’s Objects
China 2000 Fine Art, 434A East 75th Street, New York
10 - 18 September 2010
Inscriptions in Chinese art, from those carved in wood or stone to ink writings on paper, tell us much about the lives and thoughts of early scholars and calligraphers. Among the highlights of this exhibition which explores this realm is a Ming period poem carved on a soapstone seal-paste box by 18th century calligrapher and seal-maker Deng Shiru.
Recent Acquisitions
Cynthia Volk at Iliad Gallery, 212 East 57 Street, New York
10 – 24 September 2010
An exhibition showcasing bronzes dating from the Yuan to the early Qing period recently acquired from a central European collection. One noteworthy example is a Yuan period dou, a type of ritual vessel. Ceramics include Han green-glazed forms, and Tang period figures.
Kyozo: Images of the Unity of Shinto and Buddhism
Mika Gallery, 595 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor, New York
10 – 30 September 2010
Kyozo are drawings made on the surface of a mirror. The subjects are fusion of representations of the gods of the ancient religions of Japan (Shinto) and Buddhist deities. The ancient art form is based on H onjisuijaku, a the ory that provided for the conciliation of Shinto and Buddhist deities. The exhibition includes ten select works, mainly from the 12th century Heian period.
Buddhist Lives
Kaikodo, Suite 14B, 74 East 79th Street, New York
10 September - 8 October 2010
An exhibition featuring works ranging from Chinese and Japanese 14th century paintings to contemporary images and stone and gilt-bronze Buddhist sculpture. The paintings encompass styles and subjects ranging from an image of Shakyamuni attributed to the Yuan period artist Yan Hui to Zhang Daqian’s 1930s painting Bodhidharma Meditating. There are also works by contemporary artists Mansheng Wang and Michael Cherney. One of the featured Japanese paintings is Bosatsu Jizo, a hanging scroll in ink and colour on silk by Kano Tanyu, from the Kawasaki collection.
Art of Zen Monks
Mika Gallery, 595 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor, New York
10 September – 30 October 2010
A presentation of works by the Zen painter Tozen Hosetsu and the Zen Master Hakuin. Works by Hosetsu include paintings of landscapes and Dharma and a sculpture of Manjusri, in the form of a training monk (Kamakura period), which was originally sited in the meditation hall of a temple. All of the works by Hakuin are paintings.
Rasananda - A Celebration of Aesthetic Bliss
Art of the Past, 1242 Madison Avenue, New York
10 September - 30 October 2010
An exhibition which explores perceptions of beauty in the history of South and Southeast Asian art. A highlight is Rama, Sita and Lakshmana Visiting the Hermitage of Bharadwaja. This Ramayana painting from circa 1820 is in opaque watercolour heightened with gold on paper.
Auction
Neal Auction Company, 4038 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
11 - 12 September 2010
Indian and Southeast Asian Master Works of Art
Doris Wiener, 1001 Fifth Avenue, New York
11 - 17 September 2010
Highlights of this exhibition include a dancing Ganesha in black stone from northeast India or Bengal dates to the Pala period. The selection also includes Chola bronzes and thangkas.
Exhibition on Sculpture, Painting and Ceramics
Carole Davenport Japanese Art, Penthouse 7D, 131 East 83rd Street, New York
11 - 18 September 2010
In addition to a selection of sculpture, painting and ceramics is an Omi Onna No female mask. Also of note is a handscroll by Kano Toshun depicts birds, plants and flowers in ‘Chinese taste’. Chinese art will be represented by an archaic bronze from the Luboshez collection and a greyware jar from the Warring States period, with impressed motifs and traces of olive-ash glaze.
Recent Acquisitions
Kapoor Galleries, 1015 Madison Avenue, New York
11 - 25 September 2010
Featuring a dancing Ganesha from eastern India, dated to the 12th century. Other highlights are a South Indian cast image of a Jain tirthankara and a circa 1700 leaf from a Ramayana series from Mandi.
Asian Arts
Freeman's, 1808 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
12 September 2010
Asian Works of Art
Doyle New York,175 East 87th Street, New York
13 September 2010
An Autumn Feast of Color: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, 10th floor, 724 Fifth Avenue, New York
13 - 17 September 2010
The exhibition includes polychrome decorated porcelain and works of art from private collections. The star piece is an 18th century pair of painted ivory, jade and hardstone appliqué figures of a court lady and gentleman. Comparable examples, said to have come from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, were exhibited in ‘Chinese Ivories, the Oriental Ceramics Society and British Museum Exhibition’ in 1984.
New Work by Takiguchi Kazuo
Zetterquist Galleries, 3 East 66 Street, #1B, New York
13 – 18 September 2010
About ten new works by ceramic artist Takiguchi Kazuo are on view in this fourth exhibition at the gallery since 1993. In his recent works, he experiments with different surface treatments and glazes that vary from burnished earthy tones to white glaze over shigaraki clay and gunmetal ‘elephant skin’ glaze on biomorphic forms. Contemporary Chinese photography is also featured. Acting as a counterpoint to Zhou Jun’s black- and-white urban scenes with red-highlighted bamboo scaffolding are Lu Jun’s photographs of ink dispersing in water, resembling traditional Chinese landscape paintings.
“Marble” - Small Marble Treasures
MD Flacks, 20th floor, 32 East 57th Street, New York
13 - 20 September 2010
An exhibition which offers a glimpse into the tradition of skilled masonry in China and also looks at the quality and variety of objects carved from the stone, sometimes termed ‘Chinese white jade’. On show are a leaf-shaped tray and a vase.
The Portable Objects
Richard Gien, 3A, 43 East 10th Street, New York
13 - 26 September 2010
The show includes small items that could be easily carried along when travelling. They include Neolithic animal-shaped pendants from China and a Vietnamese Champa stone lingam pendant with solid gold. Highlighted is an Eastern Zhou period pendant in the shape of a praying mantis.
Kokon Biannual: Fall ‘10
Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, 17 East 71st Street, 4th Floor, New York
13 September – 12 October 2010
Among the six works on show is a portion of a well-known 13th century handscroll depicting the Legend of the Jinoji (Konoji), mounted as a hanging scroll. A calligraphic hanging scroll by Seigan Soi, in ink and paper, describes a dialogue between two Tang period monks. It is distinctive in that it incorporates an image of Daruma, made up of a cursive calligraphic rendering of his name. Seigan, a Zen monk at Daitokuji temple in the 17th century, was renowned for his calligraphy, especially among aficionados of the tea ceremony. Also on show is a late 12th century Tokoname ware jar, one of only three known examples of this size.
Flights of Fancy - Takegoshi Jun
Joan B Mirviss Ltd, 39 East 78th Street, 4th Floor, New York
13 September - 22 October 2010
A presentation of 40 new masterworks in enameled porcelain by Kutani master Takegoshi Jun. Takegoshi inherited the polychrome overglaze techniques from his father Takegoshi Taizan III, also a master in this tradition. Trained at university in traditional nihonga painting, Takegoshi Jun approaches his white hand-built porcelain vessels as three-dimensional canvases, artfully applying jewel-like glazes to depict various species of birds, flow ers and plants in carefully painted, sometimes whimsical compositions. He has uniquely adapted and expanded upon the old Kutani traditional go-sai five-colour palette of peacock blue, mustard yellow, eggplant purple, brick red and emerald green. Through his painterly use of these rich, delicately graded polychrome enamels on visually flat, white porcelain, Takegoshi highlights the push and pull between surface and depth, adding to the contemporary sensibility of his vessels.
Make Mine Meiji: Treasures from Japan’s Golden Age
Flying Cranes Antiques, Gallery 58, 1050 Second Avenue, New York
13 September - 31 October 2010
This exhibition presents more than fifty works of art in all media from this fertile period in art history, depicting nature and the fanciful, mythology and reality, and the worlds of the samurai, aristocrat and commoner. One example is a Satsuma covered vase signed ‘Kinkozan zo’. The globular body is covered with an illustration of the imperial palace set against Mt Fuji.
South East Asian Art
Christie’s, New York
14 September 2010
The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles
Sotheby’s, New York
14 September 2010
Fine Japanese Works of Art
Bonhams & Butterfields, New York
14 September 2010
Images of the Floating World: Paintings, Prints, and Illustrated Books
Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art, 17 East 76th Street, 3rd Floor, New York
14 – 17, 20 – 24 September 2010
On view is a selection of ukiyo-e paintings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. Featured is a range of images of beauties, actors, landscapes and bird and flower subjects from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Japanese and Korean Art
Christie’s, New York
15 September 2010
Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art
Sotheby’s, New York
15 September 2010
Screens and Scrolls of the Taisho Period
Erik Thomsen Asian Art, 23 East 67th Street, New York
15 September - 19 November 2010
The exhibition features more than a dozen newly discovered works, will mark the beginning of Erik Thomsen’s 25th anniversary year. Taisho period screens and scrolls were painted in traditional ways but show Western influence. They were often over- sized pieces intended for exhibition and, unlike work of the preceding Meiji period, mostly made for the domestic Japanese market. Among the works on display is a monumental pair of screens by Ishizaki Koyo, Vying Peacocks, measuring almost 9 metres across. Also on the theme of birds is a pair of six-panel folding screens titled The Raven and the Peacock by Usumi Kiho, in ink, mineral colours, lacquer, gold, silver and gofun on silver leaf.
The Sze Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection
Christie’s, New York
16 September 2010
This collection of approximately 120 lots valued in excess of $15 million will be led by a very rare and important archaic bronze ritual tripod food vessel, Li, from the late Shang dynasty, 12th century BC (estimate on request).
Indian & Southeast Asian Art
Sotheby’s, New York
16 September 2010
Chinese Works of Art
Christie’s, New York
16 - 17 September 2010
Revelations of the Brush: Joseon Scholar Ink Paintings
Kang Collection, 9 East 82nd Street, New York
16 - 26 September 2010
Two exhibitions illustrate the separate realms of men and women during the late Joseon period. ‘Revelations of the Brush: Joseon Scholar Ink Paintings’ features classic monochromatic screens and hanging scrolls depicting traditional subjects such as the ‘Four Gentlemen’ (plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and pine), landscapes and calligraphy.
Hidden Beauty: Lacquerware, Garments, and Furniture from the Joseon Women’s Quarters
Kang Collection, 9 East 82nd Street, New York
16 - 26 September 2010
One example from the exhibition is a lacquer box.
Edo Period Bird and Flower Paintings
Judith Dowling Asian Art, 133 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts
September – October 2010
This show includes a pair of six-panel screen paintings by Kitagawa Sosetsu from circa 1639-50 and scroll paintings by Matsuo Basho and Maruyama Oshin. Also featured is Asagao (Morning Glories) by Nakamura Hochu, in ink and colours on mica paper.
Antiques and Fine Art Auction
Dallas Auction Gallery, 2235 Monitor Street, Dallas, Texas
6 October 2010
Asian Works of Art
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 1338 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois
26 October 2010
The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
Fort Mason Center, Festival Pavilion, Marina Boulevard at Buchanan Street, San Francisco
28 – 30 October 2010
Among the illustrious returning exhibitors is Douglas Dawson with an interesting mix of ancient and historic ethnographic art including a Wei period bodhisattva and a modern carpenters coat from the late Edo period.
Asian Decorative Arts
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco
9 November 2010
Kondo Yutaka: The Transformation of a Traditional Kyoto Family
Joan B Mirviss Ltd, 39 East 78th Street, 4th Floor, New York
10 November – 17 December 2010
Asian Fine Arts
Skinner, Inc., 63 Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts
3 – 4 December 2010
Fine Asian Art Auction
Michaan's Auctions, 2751 Todd Street, Alameda, California
13 December 2010
Fine Asian Works of Art
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco
14 December 2010
2011 New York Ceramics Fair
Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York
19 – 23 January 2011
In this new venue, exhibitors come from England, Europe and across America and its visitors include not just curators and collectors, but members of the major ceramics associations in the US. The rigorously vetted fair annually presents the most comprehensive ceramics offerings available in one setting in this country or abroad.
Fort Lauderdale Art, Antique & Jewelry Show
Fort Lauderdale Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
7 - 10 January 2011
The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California
4 – 6 February 2011
American International Fine Art Fair
Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, Florida
4 - 13 February 2011
The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California
11 – 13 February 2011
Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show
Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, Florida
19 – 22 February 2011
The New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show
The Market Suites at 7W New York, 7 West 34th Street at 5th Avenue, New York
24 – 27 March 2011
