Installation view, Gold from Dragon City: Masterpieces of Three Yan from Liaoning, 337–436 at China Institute Gallery

Gold from Dragon City: Masterpieces of Three Yan From Liaoning, 337–436
Closing Sunday, January 5, 2025
100 Washington Street, NYC

Don’t miss the China Institute’s landmark exhibition, Gold from Dragon City: Masterpieces of Three Yan from Liaoning, 337–436, on view through January 5!

This groundbreaking exhibition showcases treasures uncovered during nearly 70 years of archaeological excavations in Dragon City (Longcheng)—modern-day Chaoyang in Liaoning Province, the capital of the Three Yan states. Among these extraordinary finds is a dazzling golden headdress called buyao, alongside sculptures, bronze mirrors, inkstones, imperial seals, ceramic vessels, and highlights of gold ornaments and equestrian objects.

Presenting these masterpieces for the first time in the United States, the exhibition sheds light on the rich history of ethnic integration and cultural exchange along the Steppe-Silk Road, which reshaped northern China more than 1,600 years ago.

Organized into four thematic sections—Diversified Culture of the Three Yan, Mural Art of the Three Yan, Gold Art of the Three Yan, and Horse Ornaments in the Decorative Arts of the Three Yan—this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to explore the artistic and cultural heritage of northern China’s ancient Three Yan society.

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Installation view, Hokusai: Waves of Inspiration from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Hokusai: Waves of Inspiration from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Closing Sunday, January 5, 2025

This is the last week to view the special exhibition, Hokusai: Waves of Inspiration from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It offers an expansive look at Hokusai’s 70-year career and a deep examination of his legacy in forms as varied as manga, LEGO® bricks, and ceramics, before it closes at the Nelson-Atkins on January 5!

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is one of the most famous Japanese artists in history, thanks largely to his instantly recognizable print known familiarly as the Great Wave. This exhibition features roughly 100 works of art by Hokusai himself, highlighting the breadth of subjects the artist tackled — including actors, landscapes, still life, supernatural legends and tales, and wildlife — as well as roughly 200 additional works by the artist’s teachers, family, students, rivals, and worldwide admirers. Hokusai: Waves of Inspiration traces Hokusai’s artistry to unexpected places across time, place, and medium and shows how he defined, reinvented, and elevated every art form he engaged with.

To learn more about the exhibit, click here.

During your visit, be sure to catch Hokusai: Masterpieces from the Spencer Museum of Art, the Richardson-North Collection, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, on view through February 1, 2025. This free display, drawn from extensive collections in the Kansas City area, highlights Hokusai’s enduring paintings and prints within the context of his time.

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Courtesy Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

Subjective Realm: Between Form and Flow
January 4 – February 1, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 9, 5–8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 18, 2:30-4pm
65 East 80th St, NYC

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is thrilled to present Subjective Realm: Between Form and Flow, a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Chen Duxi. Featuring 23 works from Chen’s Chi Yi 持颐 series, this exhibition explores the fluid interplay of motion, stillness, and time through meticulous Gongbi 工笔 techniques (a Chinese traditional painting style that uses fine and controlled lines to define forms) on silk, enhanced by luminous mineral pigments.

For Chen, water is both a subject and a metaphor, symbolizing the continuous flow of time, the cycles of life, and the dynamic relationship between observer and observed. His understanding of fluidity extends beyond the physical, translating ephemeral movements into visual rhythms. Through the precise use of brushstroke, a cornerstone of Chinese aesthetics, Chen captures the trajectories of water, sediment, and magma, distilling their motion into elegant, layered compositions.

Each line in Chen’s work embodies both the passage of time and the compression of space, creating an intricate interplay of density and flow. Combined with vivid mineral pigments, his paintings achieve an ethereal balance of motion and stillness, inviting viewers to contemplate the deeper connections between nature, existence, and perception.

This latest body of work builds on themes introduced in his earlier Er Gong 尔躬 series, transforming outward observation into an intimate exploration of form, emotion, and meaning. This inward shift reflects Chen’s evolving focus on the essence of his inner realm, fleeting moments are turned into profound meditations on life and existence, inviting viewers into a deeply personal yet universal exploration of interconnectedness.

They look forward to welcoming you to their opening reception and artist talk, where Chen Duxi will offer a glimpse into his creative journey, sharing personal stories about his artistic process and studio practice soon!

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Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc. Winter 2024 catalog now online

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc. is delighted to release their Winter Holiday Booklet filled with beautiful porcelains and works of art in a variety of styles and forms. The booklet can be downloaded free on their website, and visitors are welcome to stop by the gallery on East 52nd Street to view their fine pieces in person during this holiday season.

Whether looking for notable gifts for a collector or oneself, there is an exquisite variety of objects on their site, in the catalog, and in their gallery to enjoy both this season and year-round!

To view the catalog, click here.

Installation view, History Painting: Jason Salavon

History Painting: Jason Salavon
Closing Saturday, December 28, 2024
1601 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM

During this holiday break, don’t miss the chance to experience the innovative artwork of American artist Jason Salavon on view at TAI Modern. History Painting employs a host of “custom software, imaginings, and elbow grease,” to reinterpret the history of the universe via eight-hundred idiosyncratic encyclopedic entries created by Salavon.

As a pioneering and internationally recognized artist who has created generative and data-driven artwork since the 1990s, Salavon debuts new processes that stretch and contract the understanding of generative AI in History Painting. Launching from the art historical tradition of sixteenth and seventeenth century history painting, he uses digital techniques that he has been honing and innovating for the past thirty years to tell the story of the universe in four large panels—Origins, Emergence, Sapiens, and Modernity. These digitally layered art objects, shown in concert with looping animations made from the same prompts, exist on the cutting-edge of where, Salavon says, “the technical and the conceptual start to bleed into one another.”

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Paul Binnie (b. 1967), (L): Japanese Zodiac: Rabbit (Junishi no Usagi), 2024, hosoban 13 x 5 3/4 in. (33.1 x 14.5 cm); (R): A Day At the Beach: Tan Lines, (Hamabe no Tsuika: Hiyake no Ato), 2024, hosoban 13 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (33.3 x 14 cm)

Scholten Japanese Art is excited to announce the release of the second pair of designs in Paul Binnie’s two concurrent series which launched earlier this year; Rabbit from the Japanese Zodiac series, and Tan Lines from A Day at the Beach series.

Japanese Zodiac: Rabbit features a model with tattoos that represent the Year of the Rabbit (which in the zodiac calendar precedes the dragon, featured in the first print in the series). The upper tattoo is derived from an Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) print of a toy rabbit ferrying a boat, originally printed as an aka-e (red picture), produced as a lucky talisman to ward off smallpox in the 19th century. Children’s toys were popular subjects of these prints, as were images of Shoki the Demon-Queller, as illness was often framed as the work of demons. The lower tattoo is inspired by the 1889 print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) illustrating the Jade Rabbit and the Monkey King before a large pink moon from the One Hundred Aspects of the Moon series. Binnie has added a touch of humor in the placement of the moon in this composition, which alludes to the play on words with the English phrase ‘mooning.’

In A Day at the Beach: Tan Lines, the figure was printed using the same block set to create Rabbit from Binnie’s Japanese Zodiac series. In this non-tattoo version, the figure is printed to show two levels of tan lines, from longer shorts and from a speedo worn at different times, leaving paler areas untanned. The background is reduction printed in approximately 19 colors, and an embellishment of mica has been used to suggest the wet sand at the water’s edge.

To view these vibrant prints and more by Paul Binnie, click here.

Installation view, Hidden Stories and World Play, Alisan Fine Arts New York

Hidden Stories and Word Play: New York
Closing December 21, 2024
120 E 65th St, NYC

This is the final week to view two insightful exhibitions at Alisan Fine Arts before they close on December 21!

Hidden Stories features six contemporary artists who use photography as a powerful medium to tell compelling narratives. Rene Balcer, Stephen King and Myeong Soo Kim form narratives through their depictions of natural landscape, while South Ho, Ho Tam and Pixy Liao’s imagery is more personal, showing glimpses of everyday life, cityscapes and moments that enter the surreal.

Word Play: New York invites viewers to explore the expression, investigation, and transformation of Chinese characters. Showcasing works by six artists across generations—Cui Fei, Hung Keung, Chiu Li, Wang Dongling, Wang Tiande, and Wei Ligang—the exhibition examines the written word, a cornerstone of Chinese culture, as both a subject of reverence and a canvas for bold innovation in contemporary art.

Be sure to visit soon to immerse yourself in the contemplative beauty of these exceptional exhibitions.

To learn more about Hidden Stories, click here.

To learn more about Word Play, click here.