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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:00:03 +0000

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

The politics of heritage : From the Deccan Herald
“‘A completely new insight into culture and art” : New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts
“Padma Bhushans have strings attached” : Says Suhas Roy, declining government honors
Giant solar-powered crane : a 35,000-pound 45-foot-tall living art installation of aluminum tubes and mesh fabric derived from Japanese origami
Mughal hookah fetches 234,000 pounds at Bonhams : What down economy?
Andy’s Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co.uk: 7-Headed bust of Hevajra : Now on display at the Met

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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:00:12 +0000

I’m back (I think). That was a longer absence than I expected. Well, I’m back for now with a new Friday roundup.

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

Rare Buddha statue unveiled at Ho Chi Minh City Museum : An interesting eighth-century Buddha image
50 Years of Iranian animation : An exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery; a few sample stills are shown
Kenta Torimoto : Championing Japanese art in Shanghai
Ten Contemporary Indian Artists : Presented by Ravin Agrawai
Reviewing 20th-century Chinese art : An interview with Eric Chang

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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:00:11 +0000

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

Maya Lin’s big dig : Museum of Chinese in America to be NY Chinatown’s culture hub
History of the Khukuri : A national symbol of Nepal
Jain manuscripts at the Met : An ancient tradition
Kishi Ganku’s Bamboo Forest : A Superlative Japanese screen
Manga Kamishibai : The Art Of Japanese Paper Theater
LACMA’s reinstalled Korean galleries : Joseon porcelains among the highlights
A family visits the Asian art museum : Korean galleries a highlight
Photographing Southeast Asia : Prabir Purkayastha at the Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi

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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:00:40 +0000

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

Asia in Paris : “a continued desire for an exotic and ‘orientalized’ Asia”
Chinese shadow puppets at Princeton : Part of a 2,000-piece collection acquired in the 1920s but only catalogued over the past three years
A mandala glossary : An updated version at HimalayanArt.com
Value and contemporary art in India : “The price … is not only a cash quantum but … a measure for the standing of Indian artists”
“Steeped in History” at the Fowler : Guess what the show is about
Bird-men of Siam : Not quite celestials but more than human
Why dictators love kitsch : Reading (or overreading) a North Korean backdrop
Made in Iran : A contemporary Iranian art exhibit in London

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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:00:02 +0000

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

Chinese traditional art loses youth : “The spirit of the art form isn’t in accordance with today’s society.”
Mongolian treasures uncovered : From the sands of the Gobi desert
Diamond Ganesha steals the show : Made from 80,000 American diamonds and 800 colored stones
A little wabi sabi : “An active aesthetical appreciation of poverty” (D. T. Suzuki)
Finding Sweetness in Life : Looking for readings on Siam and Burma
The Trend Toward Director-Based Exhibits : Good or bad?

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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:00:13 +0000

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

Chinese red lacquerward on view at Met : An impressive selection
Pakistani contemporary art : Its value is increasing
Jain: Images of Perfection : At the Rubin this fall
Takashi Murakami : A Retrospective in Format Magazine
Korean pop star Rain to appear in Enter the Dragon Remake : As hero or villain?
Islam Retakes Spain : At the Aga Khan Museum Collection in Madrid
Two thousand years of Vietnamese art : Opening in New York and Houston

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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:00:59 +0000

“Take advantage of what exists.” — Laozi

An interview with Zhao Renhui : Wildlife photographer
Is the Chinese art market ready to recover : Mixed signals
The eight fears : Of Himalayan art
Stealing Ganesha : That can’t be auspicious
Beyond Golden Clouds : Exceptional Japanese screens
3rd Gwangju Design Biennale : design in clothing, eating, living, enlightening, and enjoying
Met plans new Persian gallery as part of a suite of Islamic art galleries : To open in 2011
Cataloguing art from Burma and Siam : Via the Asian Art Museum blog

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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:00:50 +0000

Take advantage of what exists. — Laozi

Japanese mandalas at the Met : Depicting the Buddhist universe
The art of tea : From Asia to the West
Streams and Mountains without End : At the Cleveland Museum of Art
Bali Arts Festival : A month of performances
Who owns art? : “A now-divided architectural wonder made whole”
Light of the sufis : The mystical arts of Islam

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Friday roundup

xensen — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:00:18 +0000

Take advantage of what exists. — Laozi

Protecting an ancient city by razing it? : I don’t think so
Heroism and Treachery: Paintings from the Safavid and Mughal Empires : At the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Tibeto-logic: The Rubin’s Situ Panchen Lectures : On “luminous visionary perfection”
Maharaja art : At the British Museum
Japanese manhole covers : An extensive gallery
Rising Korean Artists : An exhibition in Seoul
Ancient Persian Archive Digitized : At the University of Chicago
The City Of Batik : Pekalongan, Indonesia
5 things you might not have known about the samurai : From the Asian Art Museum’s new blog

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Asian Art Museum blog

xensen — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:00:43 +0000

Anyone with an interest in Asian art and culture would be well advised to bookmark or subscribe to the Asian Art Museum’s new blog. The museum team has put a lot of interesting content up already — and the curators haven’t even joined in yet (but will soon).

LINK: Asian Art Museum blog

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