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New Asian Sites Join World Heritage List


IN JUNE, the World Heritage Committee’s annual session met in Manama, Bahrain and has inscribed a further 19 sites on the World Heritage List. Te World Heritage List now numbers 1,092 sites in 167 countries with seven new sites relating to the Asian and Islamic world. Te new Asian sites are the hidden


Christian sites in the Nagasaki region of Japan, Sansa, the Buddhist mountain monasteries in South Korea, and the Victorian Gothic and Art Deco groups of public buildings in Mumbai. Sites relating to the Islamic world are the Al Ahsa Oasis in Saudi Arabia,


ancient city of Qalhat, Oman, on the Silk Road,


the Caliphate city


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Medina Azahara in Spain, and the Sassanid archaeological landscape of the Fars Region in Iran. Japan’s latest site is located in the


Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures in the northwestern part of Kyushu Island in the Japanese Archipelago. Te Hidden Christian Sites in the


Nagasaki Region comprise 12 components, made up of 10 villages, one castle remains, and one cathedral dating from between the 17th and 19th centuries. Tey reflect the era of prohibition of the Christian faith, as well as the revitalisation of Christian communities after the official lifting of the prohibition in 1873. Hidden Christians survived as communities that formed small villages sited along the seacoast or on remote islands to which Hidden Christians migrated during the ban on Christianity. Hidden Christians gave rise to a distinctive religious tradition that was seemingly vernacular yet which maintained the essence of Christianity, and they survived continuing their faith over the ensuing two centuries. Te region bears unique testimony to a distinctive religious tradition nurtured by ‘Hidden Christians’, who secretly transmitted their faith in Christianity during the time of prohibition spanning more than two centuries in Japan, from the


large number of individually remarkable structures,


objects,


Hisaka Island, Kyushu Island, Japan (2015) is now on the World Heritage List Photograph by Kyushu Air Lines © Nagasaki Prefecture


17th to the 19th century. In Korea, the sansa are Buddhist mountain monasteries located throughout the southern provinces of the Korean Peninsula, where the spatial arrangement of the seven temples that comprise the property


were established from the 7th to 9th centuries. Tey have common characteristics that are specific to Korea: the madang (open courtyard) flanked by four buildings – Buddha Hall,


pavilion, NEWS IN BRIEF


Sueharu Fukami Porcelain Sculptures


September 10 – November 2, 2018


HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART Te HK Museum of Art has received a donation of 350 Chinese paintings and calligraphy from the late Ho lu-kwong (1907-2006) for their permanent collection. Te works range from the Song dynasty to the 20th century with a focus on the Ming and Qing dynasties, including the Four Ming Masters, the Songjiang School, the Orthodox School and the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.


Ko (Splendid Solitude), 2018 Pressure-slip-cast porcelain with pale-blue glaze, on a granite base H 70 inches (177 cm)


CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART Te Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has collected exceptional Chinese paintings since it was first established and has one of the most distinguished collections in the West that chronicles the development of Chinese paintings from the 10th to 21st centuries. Tis summer, the museum announced a $1.5 million gift from June and Simon KC Li to establish a Center for Chinese Paintings Conservation. Te Li gift matches a $1.5 million endowment challenge grant awarded by Te Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Te matching gifts will allow the CMA to solidify its place as an institution with the expertise necessary to become a nexus for both the treatment of Chinese paintings and the training of qualified conservators and will ensure that the museum will have a skilled Chinese paintings conservator for its internationally renowned collection of Chinese paintings and establish the CMA as a consistent source of highly trained conservators in the US.


Japanese Art · Contemporary Art


NEW CERAMICS TRIENNALE, INDIA Presented by Jawahar Kala Kendra in collaboration with Contemporary Clay Foundation, the Indian Ceramics Triennale opened at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India on 31 August and runs until


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documents and shrines. India’s newest site is in Mumbai. Once it became a successful global trading centre, the city of Mumbai implemented an ambitious urban planning project in the second half of the 19th century that led to the construction of ensembles of public buildings set around the Oval Maidan open space, first in the Victorian Neo- Gothic style and then, in the early 20th century, in the Art Deco style. Te Art Deco edifices, with their cinemas and residential buildings, blend Indian design with Art Deco imagery, creating a unique style that has been described as Indo-Deco. Te Victorian Gothic and Art Deco ensembles bear testimony to t the phases of modernisation that Mumbai has undergone in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries and its development as a modern, international city.


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Profile: the Malaysian painter Latiff Mohidin Traditional and installation art from India, in San Francisco Rosetsu: Ferocious Brush, Japanese painting in Zurich The Jameel Prize, in London Lisa Reihana and In Pursuit of Venus (infected) Oceania celebrates the 250th anniverary of Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific in London The rise in popularity of tribal art


Jakuchu: The Colourful Kingdom of Living Beings, in Paris Parcours des Mondes and Paris exhibitions New York gallery shows New York auction previews New York exhibitions


The world of the yokai, in Madrid Fairs in London and Hong Kong Exhibitions: Sikh art and Indian postcards in London and Japanese prints in Washington DC Listings


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