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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Three

March 18, 2023

Hamza and his men attacked by a sea creature (detail), opaque watercolor and gold on paper, Mughal style at Bikaner, India, c. 1680 Folio: 9 7/8 x 6 1/3 in; painting: 9 x 5 1/2 in; courtesy Art Passages

Day 3

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

TODAY'S FEATURED EVENTS

  • 3-5pm afternoon tea, INK Studio
  • 3pm: lecture Treasures of the Sakya Tradition with Jeff Watt (Director and Chief Curator at Himalayan Art Resources)
    and 
    Master of the Jagged Water's Edge: New Classification of early 18th century paintings from Mewar with Catherine Glynn
    Both hosted by the department of Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art at Bonhams. Please note that capacity for this event is limited. Kindly RSVP to [email protected].
  • 5-6pm lecture,Two Milarepa Masterworks, also with Jeff Watt, at Sotheby's.

View all calendar events here

 

Online Exhibitions
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.

The incredibly animated and illustrative Prints and Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), Master of Graphic Storytelling went on to dictate the future of ukiyo-e prints and manga. The show is only on view in person by appointment at the Conrad New York Midtown through tomorrow at Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints.

 
Tanabe Chikuunsai II, Truthful Flower Basket, 1970, made with madake bamboo and rattan, is part of a showcase of some of the world's premier Japanese bamboo art. Elegant craftsmanship with geometric mastery renders each work independently beautiful and collectively educational at Tai Modern.

 

Exceptional textiles, including this detail of a Ramayana Trade Cloth made in Indonesia for the Indian market and included in the online exhibition have been brought to the Park Lane hotel in NY, where they can be viewed by appointment through the 22nd by Thomas Murray.  They are supplemented with found objects and antipodal jewelry offerings from Indonesia. Thomas Murray.

 

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

A gilt copper alloy figure of Tara, Nepal, Early Malla Period, 14th century. Part of the Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian art sale at on Tuesday. This large, bejeweled figure sits with her legs loosely crossed in the posture of royal ease, her hips swaying to the side. The heavy copper content of the metal alloy gives this figure with a luxuriant glow. Bonhams.

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 3 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day Two

March 17, 2023

Hagino Noriko, Uchidashi Silver Water Jar 02, 2021, Silver and copper h. 6 1/4 x dia. 7 1/2 in. (16 x 19 cm), courtesy Onishi Gallery

Even more art to discover!

Asia Week New York 2023 continues with more previews:

TONIGHT’S EVENING RECEPTIONS
(organized by event opening and duration)

 

Online Exhibitions
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.

Fung Ming Chip (冯明秋, born 1951) explores writing and numbers with 19 works in Traces of Time, on view through May 20th. Arabic, ink wash, and seals all feature in the stylized works. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Daniel Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.
Fu Qiumeng Fine Art
 
MULTIPLE MASTERS: Modern Prints & Paintings highlights artists following the intertwined shin hanga (‘new print’) and sosaku hanga (‘creative print’) movements. In dialogue is Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints from the Shin Collection, the source-code of floating world imagery, assembled by gallerist Hong Gyu Shin with prints collected while studying art conservation.
Scholten Japanese Art.
 
Divine Gestures: Channels of Enlightenment features rare objects of worship from Tibet, Nepal, India and a large selection of sculpture from Gandhara. Objects include this deceptive, complex Buddha Vajradhara, as well early 19th century Kangra school watercolors.
Kapoor Galleries.
 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

At 4:30pm today, this lecture explores the lived traditions of early Indian Buddhism as witnessed in the rich archaeological and artistic legacy of the Deccan, the focus of a major exhibition Tree & Serpent: Buddhist Art in Early India, 200 BCE–400 CE. Free with Museum admission.
Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

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

A diverse selection of Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian painting and sculpture is now on view at Christie’s, alongside a robust array of Asian sales. This highlight is an 18th century Deccan image of Prince Muhammad Sai’d Hunting, with provenance from Forge & Lynch in 2013. The spectacular scene includes animals of all kinds, including deer, big cats, and a hunting falcon.
Christie’s.
 

We hope you’ve enjoyed this daily digest for Day 2 of our 2023 edition! Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

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Asia Week New York March 2023: Daily Digest – Day One

March 16, 2023

Shirt of mail and plate, Bijapur, India, 16th-17th Century, 850mm (33 ½ inches), courtesy Runjeet Singh

Put your armor on…we're off!

Asia Week New York 2023 launches today with a day of previews:

TONIGHT'S EVENING RECEPTIONS
(organized by event opening and duration)

 

All of the dealers mentioned below are open today.

Open until March 19th, this gallery features figure paintings and portraiture by Tianjin-based Li Jin from The Heart Sutra series document his response to self-isolation during China’s first COVID lockdowns. Anonymous urban portraits Americans from his pre-COVID excursions to the United States juxtapose his reflections.
INK studio

 

Fifty stunning pieces assembled over fifty years are assembled in The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Chinese Ceramics. From the 4th through 14th centuries, they include white and sancai Tang Dynasty earthen wares, Yue, Yaozhou, Ding, Qingbai, Jun, and Cizhou type wares, and black and brown kilns represented from Northern and Southern China.
Zetterquist Galleries

 

A Zoom link is available for yesterday's talk with art historian Deborah A. Goldberg, PhD with artist Terumasa Ikeda in discussion of his contemporary Japanese lacquerware, moderated by gallerist Shoko Aono. This is the artist's first visit to the United States, and his first solo show in the country. Tonight is the opening reception.
Ippodo Gallery

 

Receptions, openings, ongoing exhibitions are listed here.

Death and afterlife through Tibetan Buddhist and Christian art is explored in over fifty objects spanning the ninth to twenty-first century, including prints, oil paintings, illuminated manuscripts, bone ornaments, thangka paintings, sculptures, and ritual items. A private reception opens the showcase tonight from 6-8pm.
Rubin Museum

 

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

Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art goes to auction March 20th, with viewing open today through the 18th from 10-5pm and the 19th 1-5pm. Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998), whose work is shown here, trained with craftspeople and honored Indian daily life. This bronze, Zero Hour, is estimated at $40,000-$60,000
Sotheby's

 

We hope you've enjoyed this daily digest for Day 1 of our 2023 edition!
Discover even more exhibitions, auctions and events at asiaweekny.com.

 

 

 

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Asia Week offers PDF guide with gallery openings chart

March 15, 2023

Asia Week New York has carefully compiled a full schedule of galleries, museums, and auction houses in our annual PDF guide. A calendar of events, dealers by areas of specialization, auction house partners and museums and institutions are all included. On page 11, a chart shows a complete list of gallery opening dates and times, including their online showcases. The final page has each dealer by address.

Click into the PDF in-line here:

For the most up-to-date calendar of events click here.

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Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes
A Special Exhibition Designed by Oscar-Winning Artistic Director Tim Yip

March 13, 2023

China, Asia, Gui food vessel, 11th century BCE, Bronze, Bequest of Alfred F. Pillsbury, 50.46.8

March 4–May 21, 2023
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday-Sunday: 10am-5pm
Thursday: 10am-9pm
General Admission $20;
Contributor Member+ Free (additional tickets $16);
Youths 17 and under Free

Used to make offerings to heavenly and ancestral spirits, bronze vessels held great ritual significance in ancient China. Mia’s Chinese art curator Liu Yang and renowned Oscar-winning art director/film designer Tim Yip (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) have created an immersive experience to engage the senses featuring 150 bronze objects from Mia’s collection. Lighting Design by A.J. Weissbard.

This is an exhibition of dualities: light and dark, ancient and present, heavenly and earthly.  Ritual and ceremony maintained the rigid hierarchy that flowed from the heavens to the king, and from the courts to the people. Each of seven galleries embodies a facet of the rituals enacted to honor the divinities, from the solemnity of the temple, to the intoxication of lavish banquets, and the progression leads you into a world where art collides with the aesthetics of theater and film.

You arrive into a world of wildness, featuring bronze birds, tigers, and mythical beasts. This liminal space represents animism, shamanism, divination, and the worship of gods and ancestors, where no division between the human and the divine exists.

You depart surrounded by still pictures and 3D scans of the intricate surface ornamentation of various bronze vessels, offering an even closer look at these mysterious but significant motifs. Intact objects set on a mirror correspond to the bronze shards seen in the first gallery, a metaphor for completion of the spiritual journey through “Eternal Offerings.” The illusion created by the mirrors also hints at the impact of modern Chinese archaeological excavations, which make possible the reconstruction of an ancient history shrouded in the mists of memory.

Though each room is its own production, they are sequential and thematic, stages of a full ritual ceremony. A soundscape, dramatic lighting, dazzling projections, and painted images animate each multisensory space.

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Kicking off Asia Week across channels

March 10, 2023

Clockwise from bottom left: Hamza and His Men Attacked by a Sea Creature, Mughal style at Bikaner, India, circa 1680, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, folio measures 9 7/8 x 6 1/3 in., painting: 9 x 5 1/2 in., Cho Yong-Ik (b. 1934), 69-521, 1969, oil on canvas, 25 x 21 in. (64 x 53.3 cm.)⁠, Wood Figure of Shō Kannon with polychrome pigments and gold leaf, Heian period circa 1100, H. 18 1/2 in. (47.1 cm.), formerly Kōfuku-ji, Nara, Half Palampore with Mythical Animals and Mughal Flowers; India, for the Indonesian market (detail); Cotton; block printed and painted mordant and resist dye; 40 x 94 in. (102 X 239 cm.), Ganesh Haloi, Untitled 3, 2021, gouache on handmade paper laid on board, 21 x 30.25 in.⁠

Galleries specialized in works from several parts of Asia

HK Art and Antiques
Figures and Flowers
March 17-April 6
49 E 78th St, Suite FB
New York, NY
This exhibition includes of modern and contemporary Korean paintings by Kim Sou, Kim Hyungguen, Su Kwak, Kyung-ja, and Cho Yong-lk among others. The gallery also features a group of Goryeo celadons from a private collection in the United States, including various celadon oil bottles and bowls.

Online Exhibitions

Akar Prakar
Ganesh Haloi: A space left behind
Online, ongoing
D-43, First Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 India (with an additional Kolkata location)
Ganesh Haloi (born 1936) has been based in Kolkata since 1950, following the partition of India. Like other artists of his generation, the trauma of displacement left its mark on his work, exhibiting an innate lyricism coupled with a sense of nostalgia for a lost world.

Kaikodo
Safety in Numbers
Online, March 16-March 23, 2023
The Big Island, Hawai’i location, 27-760 Old Onomea Road, P.O. Box 68, The Big Island, HI 96783
Numbers manifest in various ways across Chinese and Japanese art. Whether in a series or as part of a broader collection, Kaikodo explores the idea of strength in numbers in their impressive showcase, which includes 16th and 17th century painting and decor.

Thomas Murray
The Art of Shell Beads and Recent Acquisitions
Online and March 16-22, Park Lane Hotel, 36 Central Park South (by appointment)
New York, NY
Shell artwork and garments from Taiwan, the Philippines and northeastern India feature in this academic showcase, addressing the origins of shells for status from at least 35,000 years ago, and the bead trade industry which endured from two thousand years ago through the 20th century for many ethnic groups of Southeast Asia and Oceania. Recent acquisitions including several rare and unique textiles from India made for the Indonesian market will be featured.

Art Passages
The Fabled Lands: Persian and Indian Paintings
Online and by appointment in New York
3450 Sacramento St Unit 216 San Francisco CA 94118
Shawn Ghassemi and his team bring a number of impressive watercolors with gold and silver on folio spanning the 17th through 19th centuries in India and modern-day Iran.

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Ippodo Gallery celebrates 15 years in New York

March 8, 2023

In March 2023, Ippodo Gallery celebrates 15 years in New York City.

Founded by Keiko Aono in 1996 in Tokyo, Ippodo Gallery has remained devoted to the appreciation of Japanese culture and tradition through exquisitely crafted, high-quality artwork. Ippodo Gallery Tokyo is now located both in the heart of Ginza and a quiet residential area Gotenyama, with tea ceremony rooms where many artists and friends gather and foster connections. Keiko Aono built Ippodo Gallery through a specific kind of trust and love found in human relationships, and as a result, Ippodo Gallery has worked directly with over 200 artists and held thousands of exhibitions over the decades.

Today, Ippodo Gallery in New York is overseen by Keiko-san’s daughter, Shoko Aono, a pioneer in presenting Japanese Kogei art, including ceramics, lacquerware, bamboo, woodwork, metal, textiles, glass, painting, and photography among other media. The New York gallery space opened in 2008, and continues to bring meaningful Japanese art, experience, and hospitality to a Western audience.

Ippodo Gallery honors traditions in life and presents a gratitude for nature. Immersed the world of Japanese reverence, they bring a contemporary sensibility by closely working with living Japanese artists, through a belief that life is an art form itself. The gallery mission is to share empathy and conversations with the world through the experience of Japanese culture.

Ippodo has an Asia Week New York showcase on ‘Iridescent Lacquer’ by Terumasa Ikeda.

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The Wonder Unbound at the Korean Cultural Center New York

Opening Reception: March 15th, 6-8pm
On view March 15th – April 27th, 2023
460 Park Avenue, 6th Floor, NYC 10022

The Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY) is pleased to present The Wonder Unbound, an exhibition examining modern and contemporary Korea through the images and texts from multidisciplinary books published in foreign countries in the late 1700s to 1960s, authored by by non-Korean missionaries, diplomats, soldiers, to historians, art historians, and explorers who visited or worked in Korea.

A curated selection of 120 rare and vintage books from the collection of Professor Seung-Chul Lee are open to public view for the first time, selected from his personal collection of 1,350 for their multi-dimensional reflection of life in Korea. Professor Seung-Chul Lee is Director of the Dongduk Women's University and a renowned Hanji (Korean traditional paper) artist himself.

These valuable texts bring to light varying perspectives and observations on Korean culture, economy, daily life, and notably, bring an added point of interest to the discourse as they are published in the author’s original language after they had returned from their travels abroad.

Changing visual materials reflect meaningful historical shifts, from illustrations, to black and white photography, and ultimately to color photography. A lot has changed in the world since their publication, but they are undoubtedly invaluable in the artistic insights they provide about Korea and its place geopolitically, historically, and culturally. The visual representations in this exhibition aim to act provide academics and researchers with a different perspective and offer a new approach for Korean studies.

To learn more, click here.

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Closing today: Last chance to see Eccentric Vision at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery

Joanne Carson, Untitled (Study for Sculpture), 2006, mixed media on paper, framed 23 3/4 x 19in (60.4 x 48.3 cm), signed “Carson 2004” recto

Today marks the closing of Eccentric Vision: Works on Paper from a Private Collection, at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery. 20 works on paper from the 1970s to the 2010s celebrate nontraditional techniques and artistic visions, such as self-taught and outsiderart, gender identity, and humor.

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Boston-based collector Karen Moss prides herself on open mindedness and eccentric choices, including those by artists Kiki Smith, Marc Bell, Tony Fitzpatrick, Jose Barboza-Gubo, Joanne Carlson, Sue Coe, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Mary Frank, Frances Hamilton, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Andrew M. Roczek, Jennifer Perry, Nusra Quereshi and Tara Tucker among others. ⁠

Moss developed an interest in Outsider Art as a natural evolution after being exposed to European Art Brut, the Prinzhorn Collection and the establishment of the Outsider Art Fair in New York in 1993. The works have greatly enriched the life and home of the collector and now she hopes to share them with a wider audience.

To learn more, click here.

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The Nelson-Atkins Museum offers Artist Hours at Found in Translation: Explorations by 8 Contemporary Artists

Hong Chun Zhang (Born in China, working in the United States, born 1971). Continuity, 2022. Chinese ink on Alcantara fabric with scrolls, 240 × 58 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photo © 2022 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

March 10, 2023 5:30-7:30p.m.
Kirkwood Hall
Drop in, no tickets required

Many things risk being ‘lost in translation,’ but what about being found? In this showcase, the Nelson-Atkins Museum explores the skilled visual artists who converting ideas and questions into art, with art being discovered and ‘found’ through this process of change and transformation. This is the second exhibition in KC Art Now, which celebrates local artists, informed by their individual experiences with immigration from places across Asia to Kansas City.

On March 10th from 5:30-7:30pm, anyone is invited to drop in and meet the artists featured in the show—Noriko Ebersole, Shreepad Joglekar, Priya Kambli, Kathy Liaowill, Yoonmi Nam, Hyeyoung Shin, Heinrich Toh, and Hong Chun Zhang—who will discuss their artistic processes. View images and tools of their work and hear how they make choices about media and techniques.

Recordings are also available for previous artist conversations about memory and identity.

Artist Hours are organized by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Generous support for the exhibition is provided by Linda Woodsmall DeBruce and Paul DeBruce, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

To learn more, click here and here.

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