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In December Cambodian artists will be represented for the first time at the sixth Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia, and a few weeks before, the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial in Japan will again showcase the Southeast Asian nation ... At about the same time Russell Storer, the contemporary Asian art curator at the Queensland Art Gallery, a government museum that organizes the Asia Pacific Triennial, took his own research trip to Cambodia, and came back very excited about the... (International Herald Tribune)
Chinese bronzes, Gandhi's glasses in art tussle Mar 9, 2009
"If governments start to reclaim art. it will be necessary for all the world's museums begin to give back their objects, " said Georges Pochet, an antiquarian in Asian art in the south of France. "It's not possible.". (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Philanthropy Recession, tax plans worry donors Mar 7, 2009
"I would guess that most of the people who support the museum do so because they have a passion for our mission and not because of the tax breaks," said Tim Hallman, director of marketing and communications at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. But even if only a minority of donors were deterred by the tax change, it could affect billions of dollars in donations. (Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ)
* [ART JOURNAL] The caged man sings Mar 4, 2009
But Alexandra Munroe, senior curator of Asian art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, had no such compunctions, given what she described as a historical disregard for nonwhite artists in the avant-garde. Why was Tehching left out. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Bold and the beautiful Mar 3, 2009
The answer is simple, says Jackie Menzies, the curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of NSW: little has survived. Successive invasions - by the Mongols, the Manchus and the Japanese - destroyed much of the finest work produced during Korea's Joseon Dynasty, which stretched from 1392 until 1910. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Chinese Art Sales May Drop as Bidder Refuses Bronzes Payment, Dealers Say Mar 3, 2009
Last month, Christies announced that its 2008 Asian art sales increased 15 percent on the year before. Sales in the category were the third-highest for the auction house, after Impressionist and modern, and contemporary art. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Lavish Korean screens return to view Mar 2, 2009
Shawn Eichman, Asian art curator at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, looks over opulent, century-old Korean screens that were conserved in South Korea before going on display at the Academy last month. GREGORY YAMAMOTO | The Honolulu Advertiser. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Art review: Bhutan exhibition holds mysteries Feb 28, 2009
Go well rested to "The Dragon's Gift: Sacred Arts of Bhutan" at the Asian Art Museum, or plan to go repeatedly ... Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Vast In Scope Feb 28, 2009
Go well rested to "The Dragon's Gift: Sacred Arts of Bhutan" at the Asian Art Museum, or plan to go repeatedly ... Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco ... Art review: Bhutan exhibition holds mysteries Articles Go well rested to "The Dragon's Gift: Sacred Arts of Bhutan" at the Asian Art Museum, or plan to go repeatedly. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
China fails to halt sale of looted relics at Paris auction Feb 26, 2009
According to Rosemary Scott, an Asian art expert at Christie's, the Chinese built "European palaces" in part of the park that were designed by European Jesuit missionaries employed by the Chinese court; the same missionaries designed the fountain, which consisted of a huge marble shell and the bronze animal heads on clothed human bodies carved in stone. By 1795 the fountains were no longer used. (International Herald Tribune)
Christie's YSL Auction Raises $477 Million; Chinese Bronzes Sell in Paris Feb 26, 2009
The animal heads were included in a session of 64 lots of antiquities and Asian art, archaeology and furniture. The session made 42. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Yves Saint Laurent's Chair Sells for Record as Sale Extends Winning Streak Feb 25, 2009
Sculptures and Asian art will be offered today, including two Qing Dynasty bronzes that the Chinese government said should be returned because they were stolen from the imperial palace. A Paris court ruled this week that the sale could proceed. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Asia Week's Annual New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show To Take Place As Scheduled Feb 20, 2009
New York Arts of Pacific Asia, New Yorks oldest and largest Asian Arts show, will again this year present 75 major U.S. and international galleries and dealers specializing in antique works from all of Asia, the Subcontinent and the Pacific Islands ... Only the International Asian Art Fair, originally to be held at the Park Avenue Armory, has succumbed to economic concerns ... Nine former exhibitors from the International Asian Art Fair will exhibit at New York Arts of Pacific Asia in 2009. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Saving the Benjamins: See Philadelphia on a Budget Feb 17, 2009
The sprawling Philadelphia Museum of Art is home to a permanent collection of more than 300,000 pieces ranging from Asian art to colonial furniture. Admission to the museum is $14, but thanks to its pay-what-you-wish admission price on Sundays, it's easy to get lost among its Impressionist paintings or ogle the wedding dress of Philadelphia's sweetheart, Grace Kelly. (Fox News)
Museums pact Feb 13, 2009
The division of China's imperial collection is one of the great stories of Asian art. The Nationalists evacuated more than 13,000 crates of art from Beijing in early 1933 before the Japanese Army could capture the city. (International Herald Tribune)
HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008: EMILY JACIR Feb 12, 2009
Russell Ferguson, Chair, Department of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Maria Lind, Director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Sandhini Poddar, Assistant Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Publication. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Museum names new curator of Asian art Feb 10, 2009
John Johnston is the new Asian art curator at the San Antonio Museum of Art ... The has appointed John Johnston as the Coates-Cowden Curator of Asian Art ... The Asian art collection here enjoys an international reputation for its excellence and depth, Johnston says. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
Meditations on Asia in American art Feb 8, 2009
" Now that he's gone - he died in 1997 - five small crystals take his place. Multimedia Photos: East and West meet? Today in Culture The show finds the museum unusually full of sounds, however faint. Bells held in a kind of cage periodically sail down the spiral and ring. Synthesizers drone and vibrate away somewhere, and an amplified buzzing of bees has, when you get close, the roar of fighter planes. Periodically, parcels of books descend by pulley from on high, as part of an elaborate... (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Fed Calls Emergency Consultants to Triage and Treat AIG, Stricken Markets Feb 7, 2009
Some Sunday nights, there are no calls, he said in the interview at his 21st-floor midtown Manhattan office, decorated with African and Asian art and photos of his wife and four daughters. Other Sunday nights, its brutal. (Bloomberg)
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