Maharaja Sher Singh and companions watching a dance performance, approx. 1850. Pakistan; Lahore. Opaque watercolors and gold on paper, San Diego Museum of Art, Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, 1990.1348

March 31-July 10, 2023

Featuring more than 120 artworks borrowed from 20 of the finest museums and private collections, Beyond Bollywood immerses museumgoers in a multimedia showcase of dance, bringing a wide array of historic and contemporary sculpture, painting, textiles, jewelry, photographs, and more to vivid, passionate life. Through encounters with artworks from countries including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia, Beyond Bollywood reveals the enduring capacity of dance to inspire a diverse range of artists and audiences alike.

The exhibition’s design takes full advantage of the theatrical and technical capabilities of the museum’s new Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion, incorporating experiential elements from subtle musical backdrops to gallery-spanning video installations.

Beyond Bollywood is organized by the Asian Art Museum and the Cincinnati Art Museum and co-curated by Wattis Senior Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art Forrest McGill and Ainsley M. Cameron, curator of South Asian Art, Islamic Art and Antiquities at the Cincinnati Art Museum. An exhibition catalog published by the Asian Art Museum includes essays by McGill, Cameron, Laura Weinstein, Padma Kaimal, and Esha Niyogi De.

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https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/beyond-bollywood-2000-years-of-dance-in-art/

Fung Ming Chip, Rubbing Script, 2017, ink on paper 24 x 48 in (61 x 122 cm). Courtesy of Fu Qiumeng Fine Art.

Day 9

Asia Week New York ends today. This is your last chance to visit the galleries and to view the online exhibition.

• Find out which galleries are open today with this list with a handy graph, which you can take with you while you gallery hop. Visit the dealers' pages for more details, and check out our interactive map in case you get lost. If you prefer the printed guide, it is available at the galleries and auction houses.
   
• Akar Prakar, Art Passages, Egenolf Gallery, Kaikodo LLC, and Thomas Murray are live with Asia Week New York's Online Exhibition.
   
• Christie's is holding auctions today.
   
• iGavel has an auction viewing today.
   
• Tonight from 5-7pm, The Charles B. Wang Center is holding a reception for the opening of The Splendor of Japanese Contemporary Baskets.

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March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

The galleries mentioned below are exhibiting online only.

One of a group of the twelve months, this Rajasthani Barahmasa (barah = 12 and masa = month) and coincides with the coming of the rains. When the weather cools, people run joyfully into nature. It is also the time for the festival of Teej celebrated by women with singing, dancing, and swinging, dedicated to Parvati, the wife of Shiva.
Art Passages.

The Fahua Eight Immortals Porcelain Jar, Ming dynasty, late 15th century, 12.8 in. height (32.5 cm.) x 12.9 in. diameter (32.7 cm.) from a Japanese collection inspired the online exhibition Safety In Numbers, alongside a Heian-period image of Shō Kannon from a staggering group once enshrined in the Kōfuku-ji in Nara.
Kaikodo LLC.

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

A new generation of Japanese bamboo artists from Tai Modern produce functional, sculptural, and refined works with their individual sensibility and creativity. 27 baskets on display reflect the longstanding basket-weaving traditions and transformations of Japanese basketry with advanced plaiting skills and experimentation with new shapes.
Curated by Jinyoung A. Jin, director of cultural programs at the Charles B. Wang Center, the treasures in this exhibition take visitors on a remarkable journey across regions and time.
Charles B. Wang Center.

The Asia Week New York daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

Chinese Imperial Brown Embroidered Silk Semi-formal Dragon. Robe, Jifu, 18th Century, from Property of an American Collector. The naturalistic border at the hem and fine embroidery greatly enhance this nine five-clawed dragon robe. The brown ground, considered an offshoot of yellow, as well as the decoration, indicate that this is an Imperial prince's robe.
iGavel.

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Illustration to a Ragamala series, Holi Festival with Nawab Siraj al-Dawla as the Nayaka (Vasant Ragini) (detail) Murshidabad, Bengal, circa 1755, Opaque watercolour with gold on paper, 9 ¼ by 5 4/5 in.; 23,5 by 15 cm. painting; 11 by 7 in.; 28 by 17.8 cm. folio; courtesy Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd.

Day 8

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

• Find out which galleries are open today with this list with a handy graph, which you can take with you while you gallery hop. Visit the dealers' pages for more details, and check out our interactive map in case you get lost. If you prefer the printed guide, it is available at the galleries and auction houses.
   
• Akar Prakar, Art Passages, Egenolf Gallery, Kaikodo LLC, and Thomas Murray are live with Asia Week New York's Online Exhibition.
   
• Christie's is holding auctions today.
   
• iGavel has an auction viewing today.

View all calendar events here

March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

Sebastian Izzard LLC and Onishi Gallery are open today. Akar Prakar is exhibiting online only.

With Japanese Paintings and Prints: 1800-1860, Katsushika Hokusai’s works are complemented by landscapes by his rival Hiroshige, including a first edition of his famous snowscape Evening Snow, Kambara, and his moonlit masterpiece Seba.
Sebastian Izzard LLC..

Ganesh Haloi (born 1936) is a Kolkata-based artist, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). He moved to Calcutta in 1950 following the Partition of India. The trauma of displacement left its mark on his work as it did on some other painters of his generation. Since then, his art has exhibited an innate lyricism, coupled with nostalgia for a lost world.
Akar Prakar.

A beautiful vase in hammered silver, entitled Bakufu, 2011 by Living National Treasure artist, Osumi Yukie (b.1945), one of the few women in that group, is the embodiment of the skilled use of the extremely complex metalsmithing techniques developed in Japan.
Onishi Gallery.

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

The highest forms of Chinese art have always been regarded as painting and calligraphy, with landscape, figures, and flower-and-bird painting. Introducing masterworks from the Tianjin Museum and Changzhou Museum is Flowers on a River, a 40-ft hand scroll by famous monk painter Zhu Da (1626-1705).
China Institute Gallery.

The Asia Week New York daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

Clair-de-lune or 'tian lan' (sky blue) glazed wares were highly prized in the Kangxi period and the color was strictly reserved for imperial porcelain. Sturdily potted with broad, rounded shoulders beneath the lipped rim, the jar is molded with narrow, vertical ribs and is covered overall with an even sky-blue glaze with the exception of the flat base. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) wide, cloth box.
Christie's.

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Hiroshi Yoshida, 1876-1950, Kumoi Cherry Tree (Kumoizakura), ca. 1926, 23 by 29 1/8 in., 58.5 by 74 cm.; courtesy Scholten Japanese Art

Day 7

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

• Find out which galleries are open today with this list with a handy graph, which you can take with you while you gallery hop. Visit the dealers' pages for more details, and check out our interactive map in case you get lost. If you prefer the printed guide, it is available at the galleries and auction houses.
   
• Akar Prakar, Art Passages, Egenolf Gallery, Kaikodo LLC, and Thomas Murray are live with Asia Week New York's Online Exhibition.
   
• Bonhams, Christie's, Doyle, and Sotheby's are holding auctions today.
   
• Bonhams, Christie's, Sotheby's, Doyle and iGavel are holding auction viewings today.

View all calendar events here

March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Spring Exhibition of Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art includes 35 notable objects, many with important provenance. These include a pair of Large Famille Verte Vases and Covers with relief decoration, Kangxi period, a fine group of Porcelain Production watercolors, and a Japanese porcelain.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries Inc.

In addition to his signature selection of stunning military paraphernalia, Britain-based Runjeet Singh includes a new contemporary arm of his showcase with Sikh-focused portraiture, incorporating tenants of the cultural identity with fellow Brit, artist Suman Kaur.
Runjeet Singh.

Set of Writing Box and Document Box with Poem Cards, ca. 1920 (document box featured here). Both boxes with wood substrate finished in highly polished blackened roiro lacquer and decorated in gold, aokin, silver, and colored takamaki-e and hiramaki-e with embellishments of gold hirame flakes and individual okibirame squares of gold foil.
Thomsen Gallery.

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

The first institutional solo exhibition of Kyohei Inukai (1913–1985), a largely unknown, yet prolific Japanese-American artist, presents many never-before shown abstract and illusionary paintings and screenprints from the 1960s-1980s. Additionally, traditional sumi-e Japanese ink paintings, dovetail Inukai’s curvilinear forms and nuanced color palettes.
Japan Society.

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

A yellow-ground famille-rose 'elephant' handled vase, Mark and period of Tongzhi, the base with a four-character mark in iron red Height 14⅝ in., 37.2 cm. Repeated shou characters are a distinctive feature of Tongzhi period porcelain. Lot 761 of the Important Chinese Art sale. Estimate $30,000-50,000.
Sotheby's.

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Pair of Painted Earthenware Zhenmushou Tomb Guardians 彩繪鎭墓獸陶像一對 Tang dynasty, 8th century Heights: 62.9 cm. (24 3/4 in.) & 59.5 cm. (23 3/8 in.); courtesy Kaikodo

Day 6

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

• 16 galleries are open today, as well as 4 online showcases. Find out which with this list with a handy graph, which you can take with you while you gallery hop. Visit the dealers' pages for more details, and check out our interactive map in case you get lost. If you prefer the printed guide, it is available at the galleries and auction houses.
• Akar Prakar, Art Passages, Egenolf Gallery, Kaikodo LLC, and Thomas Murray are live with Asia Week New York's Online Exhibition.  
• Bonhams, Christie's, Heritage Auctions, and Sotheby's are holding auctions today.
• Bonhams, Christie's, Sotheby's, and iGavel are holding auction viewings today.
   
• Tonight at 6pm, The Korea Society is hosting an artist talk with Seongmin Ahn regarding her ongoing solo exhibition, Enchanted Reality, in conversation with Eleanor Hyun, Associate Curator for Korean Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

View all calendar events here

March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

A beautiful 15th-16th century figure of Nampar Gyalwar, from Tibet, with silver and copper inlaid eyes, his right hand raised in the typical gesture of this Bon Deity is one of the works on view at Buddhist Art.
Buddhist Art.

Dai Ichi Arts includes works by Japan’s ceramic Living National Treasures, from porcelain to stoneware; from celadon to iron glazes. Tokuda Yasokichi III was designated in 1997 for his production of colorful porcelain (saiyu jiki). His use of polychrome enamel on pigmented glazes on simple forms is famous in the Kutani canon. 
Dai Ichi Arts Ltd.

Kim Hyunggeun's Day of Blossoming Cotton Flowers 1995, oil on canvas, 17 x 20 in. (43.2 x 50.8 cm.) features in the modern and contemporary Korean paintings showcase, which also includes work by Kim Sou, Su Kwak, Kyung-ja, and Cho Yong-lk among others. The open house and the online exhibition also includes Goryeo celadons. 
HK Art & Antiques LLC.

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Seongmin Ahn fuses her insight into the relativity of perception with a deep regard for traditional Korean art, especially minhwa–folk painting. Traditional forms and themes are extended into multi-disciplinary and multi-media practices by adopting science, technology, and multiple cognitive models. She will be present tonight for the lecture.
The Korea Society.

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An important white porcelain moon jar from the Joseon Dynasty (18th century) is round and well-proportioned, formed by two parts joined at the belly, set with a slightly everted short neck, covered with a lustrous and translucent glaze, and set on a circular upright foot with a deep recessed base. Estimated at $1,000,000-2,000,000. 
Christie's.

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861) Mitsukuni Defies the Skeleton Specter Conjured by Princess Takiyasha, color woodblock print: ōban tate-e triptych, each sheet approx 14⅞ x 10 in. (37.8 x 25.4 cm); ca. 1845–46; courtesy Sebastian Izzard LLC

Day 5

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

• 19 galleries are open today, as well as 4 online showcases. Find out which with this list with a handy graph, which you can take with you while you gallery hop. Visit the dealers' pages for more details, and check out our interactive map in case you get lost. If you prefer the printed guide, it is available at the galleries and auction houses.
• Akar Prakar, Art Passages, Egenolf Gallery, Kaikodo LLC, and Thomas Murray are live with Asia Week New York's Online Exhibition.
• Bonhams and Sotheby's are holding auctions today.
• Christie's, Doyle, Heritage Auctions, iGavel, and Sotheby's are holding auction viewings today.

View all calendar events here

March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Pigeons have long been considered sacred in India, where they were kept and trained by princes and paupers and considered sacred to both Hinduism and Islam. At Akbar’s court there were thought to be more than 20,000 pigeons, but only 500 were considered select.
Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch.

Hiroshi Yanagi brings a Selection of Japanese Art ranging from 9th century to the 20th centuries, but 2023 is their first year bringing Korean art to New York. This Seated Amida Nyorai (Amitābha) Wooden sculpture Late Kamakura period dates back to 13th-14th century Japan and stands at 42cm.
Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art.

Light Shifts Every Second is a recent oil on canvas painting by Manika Nagare, based on the artist’s contemplation of natural light each day. She recognizes and celebrates the diversity of humanity, and believes it is important to actually see the work face-to-face with the naked eye, to convey what cannot be seen through reproductions.
Miyako Yoshinaga.

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Learning to Paint in Premodern China explores pathways to mastery through a rich selection of paintings from The Met along with loans from private collections. Alongside culturally significant and beautifully rendered hand scrolls, this included 17th century incense box is attributed to Hu Wenming.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

A Fine Japanese Plique a Jour Vase Attributed to Hattori Tadasaburo, Meiji Period, 7 1/4 inches. Stout baluster form, worked in silver wire, and colorful translucent enamel, which shows songbirds and insects among spring blossoms and rockwork before a pale blue sky with silver-wire clouds. Silver rim and base stamped with silver mark. Estimate at $15,000-$20,000.
Doyle.

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A small image of a Lama with its original seal. Tibet, 15th century. 11 cm high.; courtesy Buddhist Art

Day 4

Asia Week New York continues with a wide selection of exhibitions, dealer appointments, and online shows.

• Happy Sunday! Find out who's open today with this list with a handy graph, which you can take with you while you gallery hop. Visit the dealers' pages for more details, and check out our interactive map in case you get lost. If you prefer the printed guide, it is available at the galleries and auction houses.
• Akar Prakar, Art Passages, Egenolf Gallery, Kaikodo LLC, and Thomas Murray are live in Asia Week New York's Online Exhibition.
• Bonhams, Christie's, Doyle, Heritage Auctions, iGavel and Sotheby's are holding auction viewings today.

TODAY'S FEATURED EVENTS

• 11am-12:30pm annual meeting and lecture, Japanese Art Society of America
• 4pm lecture, An Exploration of the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture with Nicholas Grindley. Event capacity limited at Bonhams. Please RSVP to [email protected].

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March 2023 Online Exhibition
The Asia Week New York 2023 Online Exhibition is live. Browse highlights from the exhibiting dealers as well as selections from upcoming auctions. Some of this year's participants are showing online only. The web address for the Online Exhibition is: march2023.asiaweekny.com

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Morino Hiroaki Taimei is acclaimed for his ability to create elegant and bold forms. His surface patterns beautifully reflect his Kyoto heritage. Aside from his classical ceramic training with Living National Treasures Tomimoto Kenkichi and Fujimoto Yoshimichi Nōdō, Morino was also influenced early on by his time teaching at the University of Chicago. Joan B. Mirviss LTD.

Complimenting Joan Mirviss is The Colors of the Postwar Japanese Abstract Arts. Abstract paintings by Domoto Insho's exhibit alongside three other great masters, Yamaguchi Takeo, Morita Shiryu and Inoue Yuichi. A valuable piece is also featured by a Mid-Edo period Zen priest, Hakuin Ekaku, who has inspired many artists with his Zen ideology and aesthetics. Shibunkaku.

From the extremely rare Mirrors of the Modern Boudoir series published by Azuma-ya Daisuke comes the animated Plucking Eyebrows c. 1823 by Kunisada (1786-1865), included in the showcase Fine Japanese Prints: 300 Years of Japanese Prints, Ukiyo-e-Modern by Art of Japan.

The Asia Week daily digest features one auction highlight per day.

A Tibetan Gilt Bronze Mahasiddha Figure. Overall impressive scale with rubbing to gilding throughout and stabilized hole to underside. Traces of oxidation throughout, especially to underside; wear indicative of age, display, and handling. Estimated at $60,000 – $80,000 with a $50,000 reserve. 
Heritage Auctions.

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