22 Listings North America


Aga Khan Museum, Toronto


Art of the East: Highlights of Islamic Art from the Bruschettini Collection, to 21 Jan 2018 Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Chinese Paintings, to 10 Dec; A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Persian and South Asian Paintings and Manuscripts, to 10 Dec; A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Japanese Prints, to 27 May 2018 The Andy Warhol Museum, New York Farhad Moshiri: Go West, to 14 Jan Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL India Modern: The Paintings of M. F. Husain, to 4 March; City and Country: Views of Urban and Rural Japan, 31 Dec. Asia Society, New York City, NY After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History, to 21 Jan 2018 Masterpieces from the Asia Society Museum Collection, to 8 Jan 2018; In Focus: An Assembly of Gods, to 25 March Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, A Journey into the Great Unknown, to 29 Oct; Philippine Art: Collecting Art, Collecting Memories, to 11 Mar; Couture Korea, 3 Nov-4 Feb


Bard Graduate Center, New York John Lockwood Kipling Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London, to 7 Jan 2018 BAMPFA, Berkeley


A Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou, to 28 Jan. Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, Ca. Sacred Realms: Temple Murals by Shashi Dhoj Tulachan from the Gayle and Eward P Roski Collection, ongoing; Anicent Arts of China: A 5,000 Year Legacy, ongoing. Empress Dowager Cixi: Selections from the Summer Palace, to 11 March 2018 The Broad Museum, Los Angeles Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors, to 1 Jan Charles B Wang Center, New York The Way of Tea in Asia, to 10 Dec; OM Lab, to 10 Dec; Simplicity Over Complexity, long-term installation China Institute, New York Dreams of the Kings: A Jade Suit for Eternity, Treasures of the Han Dynasty from Xuzhou, to 12 Nov


Cleveland Museum of Art,


Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens, to 5 Nov Crow Museum, Dallas, TX Hidden Nature: Sopheap Pich, to 7 Jan 2018; Styled with Poise: Figures in Japanese Paintings and Prints, to 7 Jan; Sculpting Nature: Jade from the Collection, ongoing; Visualizing Afterlife, Paradise and Earthly Spheres in Chinese Art, ongoing. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,TX The Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery, to Apr 2019; Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, to 25 Feb Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Acting Up: Kabuki in Japanese Prints, to 28 Jan, 2018; Devoted: Visual Performances of Faith, to 19 Aug 2018. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Linking AsiaL Art Trade, and Devotion, 17 Dec


Field Museum, Chicago, IL Cyrus Tang Hall of China, ongoing; Hall of Jades, ongoing.


Fowler Museum UCLA, Los Angeles How to Make the Universe Right: The Art of Priests and Shamans from Vietnam and Southern China, to 7 Jan; Conserving Treasures: Jamini Roy and Modern Indian Art, to 11 March; ClayCurvyCool, ongoing Freer / Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C. Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, to 29 Nov 2020; Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran, from 14 Oct; Resound: Ancient Bells of China, from 14 Oct; Subodh Gupta: Termina, to 24 Jun 2018. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Highlights from the Asian Collection, ongoing; Show Me the Mini, 25 Nov. Honolulu Museum of Arts, Honolulu, Maki Haku and the Poetry of Form, to 22 Oct.


Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Mastering Materials: Rare Objects from the IMA’s Asian Collection, 20 Nov-15 Jul; Hiroshige: Famous Views in the 60-Odd Provinces, to 1 Apr


Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, Sadako’s Crane, ongoing; Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo, to 25 Feb Japan Society, New York


Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, to 17 Nov


Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY Power, Haunting, and Resilience,


to 17 Dec.


Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, Graphic Ideology: Cultural Revolution Propaganda from China, to 31 Dec. The Korea Society, New York Po Kim: In Search of Arcadia, to 1 Dec Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA


Polished to Perfection: Japanese Cloisonné from the Collection of Donald K. Gerber and Sueann E. Sherry, to 4 Feb; Atmosphere in Japanese Painting, to 4 Feb; A Tale of Two Persian Carpets (One by One): The Ardabil and Coronation Carpets, to 8 July 2018; Wu Bin’s Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone, 10 Dec to 24 June The Menil Collection, Houston Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma, to 25 Feb The Met Breuer, New York City Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs, to 2 Jan. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, to 4 Feb 2018; Arms and Armor from the Islamic World, to 3 Dec; Cosmic Buddhas in the Himalayas, to 10 Dec; Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, to 6 Jan 2019; Portable Storage: Tribal Weavings from the Collection of William and Inger Ginsberg, to 7 May 2018


Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT


Robert F Reiff Gallery of Asian Art, ongoing. Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA Indonesian Shadow Puppets, to 18 March; Kantha: Recycled and Embroidered Textiles of Bengal, to 25 March. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, A World of Radiant Awakening: Buddhism and the Painting of China, to 5 Nov; Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture, 24 June 2018; Boundless Peaks: Ink Paintings by Minol Araki, to 24 June 2018. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Don’t miss Look out for


Cernuschi Museum, Paris Lee Ungno, the Man of Crowds, to 19 Nov; Park In-kyung, Lee Young-Sé, to 7 Jan 2018.


Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Preserverd in Partnership: Treasures of Japanese Art, to 7 Jan.


Durham University Oriental Museum Resilience within the Rubble:


Reconstructing the Kasthamandap and its past after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, to 28 Jan 2018.


Edinburgh University Library Highlands to Hindustan: Indian Art in University of Edinburgh Collections, to 4 Nov Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asian Arts, Budapest


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics, to 1 April 2018


War Relocation Center, to 7 Jan 2018. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA MegaCity: India’s Culture of the Streets, to 31 Dec; Importing Splendor: Luxuries from China, to 31 Dec; Double Happiness: Celebration in Chinese Art, to 31 Dec. Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Designing Japan, ongoing. Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet, to 18 Feb 2018; Warriors or World War 1, Sikh Art and Heritage, 18 Nov to 15 April 2018


Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Designing Traditions Biennial V: Student Explorations in the Asian Textile Collection, to 14 Jan 2018; Asian Galleries, ongoing. Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads, 1 June Rubin Museum of Art, New York Henri Cartier-Bresson, India in Full Frame, to 29 Jan 2018; Gateway to Himalayan Art, to 11 Dec; The World is Sound, to 8 Jan 2018; Masterworks of Himalayan Art, to 26 March 2018.


San Antonio Musum, San Antonio TX The Magic of Clay and Fire: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics, autumn 2017 San Jose Museum of Art, CA The Propeller Group, to 25 March 2018. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Story-Telling: Narrative Paintings in Asian art, ongoing;


Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Awakened Ones: Buddhas of Asia, ongoing; Porcelain Room, ongoing; Ai Weiwei: Colored Vases, ongoing; Europe Imagines the East, ongoing; Pure Amusements: Wealth, Leisure, and Culture in Late Imperial China, ongoing; Talents and Beauties: Art of Women in Japan, 4 Nov-15 Jul 2018


Science Museum, London Illuminating India, to 31 March 2018


Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada, to 10 Dec; An Enchanted Land A Century of Indian Paintings at the MFA, to 7 Jan 2018; Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics A Collaboration with Nobuo Tsuji and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to 1 April 2018; Black and White: Japanese Modern Art, to 3 June 2018. An Enchanted Land A Century of Indian Paintings at the MFA, to 7 Jan Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, to 28 Jan 2018.


Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City Revealing a Hidden Treasure: A Jain Shrine from India, to 18 Apr 2018; More than Words: The Art of Calligraphy across Asia, to July 2018; Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection, to March 2018.. New Orleans Museum of Art Orientalism: Taking and Making, to 31 Dec.


Newark Museum, Newark, N.J Ongoing: From Meiji to Modern: Japanese Art Goes Global, The Art of Japan, Korea: Land of the Diamond Mountains, Red Luster, ongoing; Tibet Collection, Gods, Guides and Sacred Symbols of India, Influences of the Indic World: India and Nepal, Southeast Asia: Art of a Cultural Crossroads, Tiaras to Toe Rings: Asian Ornaments Buddhism, Taoism, Confucius and the Cult of Mao: China’s Religious Arts;China’s China: Porcelain, Earthenware, Stoneware & Glazes, ongoing; Musical Arts of Asia, to 26 Feb 2018.


The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston


ASIAN ART NOVEMBER 2017


Smart Museum, Chicago, IL Asian Art Galleries, ongoing Solomon R Guggenheim, New York Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, to 7 Jan 2018 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT


Artists in Exile: Expressions of Hope, to 31 Dec; Asian collections, ongoing Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang, to 12 Nov; Dangerous Liaisons Revisted: Art and Music Inspired by the Chinese Tang Court, 20 Jan to 22 April 2018


Europe


Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland Material Traces: Conserving and Exploring Textiles, to 12 Nov Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Old Traditions New Visions: Art in India and Pakistan after 1947, to 8 March 2018; Contemporary Japanese Tea Wares, to 1 Jan 2018; Imagining the Divine, to 18 Feb 2018; Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain, 7 Nov-15 Apr 2018. Baur Foundation, Geneva


Japanese and Chinese collecitons, ongoing British Museum, London Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia, to 14 Jan 2018; Living with Gods, peoples, places and worlds beyond, 2 Nov to 8 April; Permanent Asian and Islamic art collections. Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London Behind The Indian Boom, to 16 Dec.; Egyptian Moulids, Fairgrounds Of The Faithful, to 16 Dec Bozar, Brussels Ancestors, Indonesia, to 14 Jan Centre Pompidou, Metz


Japan-ness:Architecture and urbanism in Japan since 1945, to 8 Jan 2018; Japanorama: New vision on art since 1970, to 5 March 2018.


When the Gates of Asia Open Up, ongoing; Ukiyo-e,Japanese Wood Carvings from the collection owned by the Count Vay Péter, ongoing; Cindery Peach and Mohammedan Blue : Chinese porcelain exhibition, ongoing.; Sanghay – Shanghai Parallel Diversities Between East and West, to April 2018. Guimet Museum, Paris


Ascetics, Sultans and Maharajahs, to 13 Feb; Images of Burma, to 22 Jan; Carte Blanche: Jayashree Chakravaty, to 15 Jan Horiman Museum, London Pani, to 28 Nov; India Unplugged, to 7 Jan 2018


Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris Christians in the Orient, to 14 Jan 2018, 2nd Photography Biennial, to 12 Nov; Carte blanche à Tahar Ben Jelloun, to 7 Jan 2018. Lews Castle, Stornaway


The Mackenzie Indian Collection, to 18 Nov MAK, Vienna


Reinstallation: MAK Permanent Collection Asia, ongoing.


Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Heitai Patel, Mehreen Murtaza, to 4 Feb; Waqas Khan, Nikhil Chopra, Neha Choski, Risham Syed, o 25 Feb 2018 Manchester Museum, Museum Memories of Partition, to Feb 2018; Celebrating Ganesha, to 8 Jan 2018; Reena Saini Kallat, to 25 Feb 2018. Museo d’Art e Orientale, Turin Il Tramonto Birmano, to 15 Nov. Museum der Kulturen, Basel Asian art collections.


Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Another India, to 22 Apr 2018. Museum of Asian Art, Nice Samuari, to 7 Jan 2018 Museum of East Asian Art, Bath Dressed to Impress: Netuske and Japanese Men’s Fashions, 4 Nov to 22 April 2018 Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin Faces of China. Chinese Portrait Painting of the Ming and Qing dynasty (1368-1912), to 7 Jan 2018


Museum of East Asian Art, Stockholm permanenet collections


Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm,


Creative Impression: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the 1950s-1960s, to Dec 17 Prado, Madrid


Cai Guo-Qiang, 25 Oct to 3 April 2018 Rietberg Museum, Zurich Alice Boner in India, to 14 Jan 2018 Science Museum, London Illuminating India, to 31 March 2018. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin Vis à Vis: Asia Meets Europe, to 30 Apr 19 Troppen Museum, Amsterdam Permanent collections of Asian art. Victoria & Albert Museum, London Contemporary KoreanCeramics, to 11 Feb 2018; Chinese Snuff Bottles in the V&A, 1 Nov-31 May 2018; Permanent Asian and Islamic Collections. The Whitworth, Manchester Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language, to 25 Feb 2018; South Asian Modernists 1953-63, to 15 April 2018; Apna: Ours Yours Everybody’s, to 21 Jan 2018.


Asia


Adachi Museum Of Art, Chugoku 80th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Order of Culture, to 30 Nov


Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK


A Field in Bloom: Highlights of Chinese Art to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the Department of Fine Arts, CUHK, to 3 Dec; Phoenix Reborn: Chu Jades Excavated from Hubei, to 25 Feb 2018. Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore Ancient Religions, ongoing; The Scholar in Chinese Culture, ongoing; A Space for Contemporary Art, ongoing; Tang


Shipwreck, ongoing


Hara Museum Of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa Keiichi Tahara: Photosynthesis with Min Tanaka, to 24 Dec. Idimitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo The Art of Edo Rimpa, to 5 Nov; Styles of Calligraphy II, 11 Nov to 17 Dec Iwami Art Museum, Chugoku Medieval Warlords in Iwami: Their Wars and Commerce, to 13 Nov. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Welcome to Art in Myanmar!, to 9 Jan 2018 Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, Reunions: A Collector’s Journey, to Feb 2018; The Secret Garden: Symbols of Nature in Wood, Silver and Gold, to 4 March 2018.


Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto National Treasures: Masterpieces of Japan, to 26 Nov Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong, Reunions: A Collector’s Journey, to Feb 2018; The Secret Garden: Symbols of Nature in Wood, Silver and Gold, to 4 March.


Maritime Museum, Hong Kong To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Ancient Maritime and Overland Trade, to 30 June Menard Art Museum, Komaki Masterpieces from the Collection of Menard Art Museum, to 24 Dec. Miho Museum, Shigaraki


20th Anniversary Exhibition: Shangri-La, Tracing the Footsteps of IM Pei and the Miho Museum, to 17 Dec Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


Materials and Boundaries - Handiwirman Saputra + Chiba Masaya, from 18 Nov; Yamamoto Atsushi, from 18 Nov; Dane Mitchell, from 18 Nov. National Gallery, Singapore Wu Guanzhong: A Walk Through Nature, to Dec; Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hai Lou Collection, to 4 Dec; Strokes of Life: The Art of Chen Chong Swee, to 4 Dec


Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, to 4 Dec


National Museum of China, Beijing A History of the World in 100 Objects, to May 2018; Permanent exhibitions of Asian art


National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The Age of Okamoto Shinso, to 10 Dec. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Producing / Discussing / Looking at / Hearing, Sculptures, to 5 Nov. Nezu Museum, Tokyo


Pinnacle of Elegance: Sword Fittings of the Mitsumura Collection, 3 Nov-17 Dec Oyamazaki Villa Museum Of Art, Kyoto Tosio Arimoto: Weaving Stories, to 10 Dec Pola Museum Of Art, Kanagawa A Century of Art Journey through 100 Masterpieces, to 11 Mar. Sagawa Art Museum, Kansai Raku Kichizaemon X: The 1970s Generation Today, to 11 Mar 2018. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Cinerama: Art and the Moving Image in Southeast Asia, 17 Nov to 18 March 2018 Sun Museum, HK, Celestial Cases: Antique Boxes of China, to 2 Dec Suntory Museum, Tokyo


Celebrating a Decade in Roppongi Kano Motonobu: All Under Heaven Bowed to His Brush, to 5 Nov Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Unkei - The Great Master of Buddhist Sculpture, to 26 Nov. UMAG, Hong Kong Fibres of Life, to 26 Nov Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art, opened 1 Oct.


Australia


Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Glorious: earthly pleasures and heavenly realms, through 2018; Passion and procession: art of the Philippines, to 12 Nov. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, NGV Triennial, 15 Dec to 15 April 2018 Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA, Brisbane Anish Kapoor, to 29 July, 2018.


Events


Abu Dhabi Art, 8 – 11 Nov. ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, 9-12 Nov.


Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Conference: Qu Leilei: The Stars and After, 24 Nov, 10.30am. Asia Society, New York


Cleveland Museum of Art Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens, to 5 Nov


ChinaFile Presents: ‘Nine Continents’ A Conversation with Memoirist Xiaolu Guo, 8 Nov, 6.30pm. Asian Art in London, 2-11 Nov. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco JA Conversation with Mimi Gardner Gates and Xiaoze Xie, 10 Nov, 2pm; Lecture: The Unbearable Lightness of Drawing: Tracking Down 18th-Century Indian Painter Nainsukh and His Work, 12 Nov, 12pm. BAMPFA, Berkeley


Lecture by Patricia Berger: A Crisis of Faith: Chen Hongshou’s Buddhist Paintings, 4 Nov, 1pm.


Bandung Design Biennale, 1-30 Nov. British Museum, London Gallery Talk: Mounting Japanese prints, 3 Nov, 1.15pm; Lecture: Introduction to the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia (China Collection), 10 Nov, 1.15pm; Lecture: Modern Chinese design: a talk by artist Qiong Er Jiang, 10 Nov, 2.30pm; Lecture: Just who were the Scythians? Ancient accounts from Herodotus to Sima Qian, 10 Nov, 6.30pm; Study day: Gold of the steppes, 11 Nov, 10.30am. Bonhams, London


Bonhams Annual Oriental Ceramics Society (OCS) Lecture:Preview of New China and South Asia Gallery at the British Museum, 6 Nov, 6pm.


Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz Fuyuki Yamakawa / Norimizu Ameya, performances (first shows in France), 8 Nov, 8pm; Yukiko Nakamura, Don’t wake me up, dance, 9 Nov, 7pm; Norimizu Ameya, Classroom, theatre (first show in France), 10 Nov, 8pm; Min Tanaka, Locus Focus, outdoor performance, 11 Nov, 11 and 4pm. Denver Art Museum, Denver Lecture: Xiaoze Xie, 29 Nov. Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Friends tour of shows by six South Asian contemporary artists, 9 Nov, 6pm. Dubai Design Week, 13 - 18 Nov. Freud Museum, London


Lecture: Sigmund Freud & His Chinese Things, 3 Nov, 4pm. Hong Kong Art Week, 16 – 26 Nov India Art Festival, New Delhi, 16-19 Nov. Istanbul Biennial, to 12 Nov. Jakarta Biennale, 4 Nov-10 Dec. Jogja Biennale, Yogyakarta, 2 Nov.. Museum of East Asian Art, Bath Lecture: Dressed to Impress: Adornment in Early Modern Japan, 10 Nov, 7pm; Japanese Textile Dyeing, 18 Nov, 11am. National Gallery, Singapore


Performance: Things to bring on a boat to nowhere and everywhere, 10 Nov, 7pm. Rubin Museum of Art, New York Andrew Shantz + Zac Colwell: Spiral Music, 8 Nov, 6pm; Prasanna: Rhythms of India, 10 Nov, 6.30pm and 8.30pm; Arun Ramamurthy: Spiral Music, 15 Nov, 6pm; Doyal Gauranga: Spiral Music, 29 Nov, 6pm.


The Society of Antiquaries, London The Oriental Ceramic Society: Han Dynasty Painted Bronzes, 14 Nov, 6.15pm. Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London Lecture: A New Look at Kangxi Era Porcelain, 5 Nov, 2pm.


University of Oxford Dept of Continuing Education, Oxford Indian Textiles, 3 Nov, 11am. Victoria & Albert Museum, London Gallery Talk: Chinese Paintings in the V&A’s T.T. Tsui Gallery, 2 Nov, 1pm; The Annual Benjamin Zucker Lecture on Mughal Art Translating India: Mughal and French Encounters in the 18th Century, tp 7 Nov, 7pm. The Westbury Hotel, London Lecture: Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, 8 Nov, 7pm. Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia, London, Collecting the ‘uncollectables’: The Study Collection at the Museum of East Asian Art, 5 Nov, 12.30pm


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