NAKAMURA TAKUO (b. 1945), Designed Space IV, two-part sculpture mounted on metal base with support rods, 2025, stoneware with polychrome under- and overglazes, gold, and silver, with brass and steel mount, 29 1/2 x 19 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.

Beyond Kutani II: Innovations in Form and Color
Nakamura Takuo and Takegoshi Jun
Closing Tuesday,  December 23, 2025
39 East 78th St, Ste 401, NYC

There is still time to experience Beyond Kutani II: Innovations in Form and Color at Joan B Mirviss LTD, featuring captivating new works by two of today’s most iconic Kutani artists, Nakamura Takuo (b. 1945) and Takegoshi Jun (b. 1948), before it closes on December 23!

Long prized for its richly painterly surfaces and bold enamel overglazes, Kutani porcelain has captivated audiences for centuries. Raised in ceramic-making families in Ishikawa Prefecture—Kutani’s historic home—Nakamura Takuo and Takegoshi Jun draw deeply from the tradition’s classical aesthetics, including the five colors (gosai) of Old Kutani. Masterfully uniting painterly imagery with dynamic three-dimensional forms, they transform surface decoration into sculptural expression, ushering Kutani into a vibrant contemporary realm.

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Installation view, Constance Fong: A Joyous Nature

Constance Fong: A Joyous Nature
Closing Saturday, December 20, 2025
5 East 80th St, NYC

There is still time to experience Constance Fong: A Joyous Nature, a solo exhibition at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art celebrating the artist’s lifelong dialogue with life, before it closes on December 20. Centered on nature, the exhibition reveals how Constance (Connie) Fong transforms landscapes and everyday objects into a luminous language of reflection and joy.

Born in Wuxi and raised in Shanghai, Constance Fong was shaped by both Chinese and Western artistic traditions. Her work embodies the literati spirit, finding beauty in simplicity and emotion in the quiet rhythms of everyday life. Influenced by masters such as Bada Shanren and Qi Baishi, she captures the vitality of living things with a refined yet playful touch.

Drawn to the intimate and fleeting, Fong discovers meaning in moments easily overlooked. From the Adirondack Mountains to a single unfurling blossom, her art weaves memory and imagination in the xieyi tradition, conveying essence rather than exact likeness. Rooted in stillness and attentiveness, her paintings transform perception into form—offering a humble, poetic way of seeing the world.

Enter Connie’s serene and radiant world, where joy and reflection unfold—experience it before the exhibition comes to a close!

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Appleton Museum of Art, College of Central Florida

Asia Week New York is thrilled to welcome the Appleton Museum of Art as our newest cultural member! Founded in 1987 and located in Central Florida, the Appleton Museum of Art houses an extraordinary permanent collection of over 24,000 objects, complemented by outdoor sculptures, temporary exhibitions, and a dynamic calendar of special events throughout the year.

The 81,610-square-foot museum seamlessly blends classical and contemporary architecture, featuring clean lines and stately Italian travertine marble. The original building is centered around a serene interior courtyard and fountain, creating an inviting space for reflection and exploration.

Among its most notable holdings, the Appleton’s Asian art collection spans China, India, Japan, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. Highlights include Buddhist sculptures and textiles from China, Japan, India, Tibet, Thailand, and Burma; Chinese ceramics such as Tang Dynasty horses and guardian figures, rare celadon funerary vases, and examples of Chinese export art; as well as Japanese works ranging from delicate netsuke and Meiji-era bronzes to exquisite kimono.

Visitors shouldn’t miss the Appleton’s current exhibition, Exposition, Empire and Expression: Japanese Global Art 1870s–1970s, showcasing a century of Japanese art shaped by global exchange, from paintings and prints to sculpture and decorative arts.

“Benkei,” 1870s-1880s, Suzuki Chokichi (Japanese, 1848-1919), Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912), Bronze on wood base with gilding, 61 x 31 x 23 ½ in., Gift of Arthur I. Appleton, G12518

Exposition, Empire and Expression: Japanese Global Art 1870s-1970s
Ongoing

Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858) led two United States Navy expeditions to Japan in the 1850s to forcibly open global trade ports. Exposition, Empire and Expression showcases the impact over the subsequent century on Japanese artists and global art. Japanese bronze artists were highlighted at various World Fairs and international expositions in Europe and North America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alongside the global appetite for colorful woodblock prints, fairs also sold Japanese bronze masterworks inlaid with silver and gold to many wealthy art patrons and museums. From the early 1900s through 1940s, Japan’s industrial prowess and military forces impacted Japanese formal and everyday fashion. Iconic kimono ensembles adorned with ships, planes, trains and artillery aligned Japan’s citizens with Imperial empire-building goals in East Asia and beyond. In post-World War II Japan, avant-garde artists worked across multiple media styles and techniques to embrace global art trends such as experimental film and painting techniques like abstract expressionism.

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Installation view, Fong Chung-Ray: Meditations in Abstraction

Fong Chung-Ray: Meditations in Abstraction
Closing Saturday, December 20, 2025
120 East 65th St, NYC

Don’t miss Fong Chung-Ray: Meditations in Abstraction, the artist’s first New York exhibition and a six-decade survey at Alisan Fine Arts, celebrating his distinctive synthesis of Western modernism and Asian aesthetics. This landmark presentation marks a new chapter in the gallery’s long-standing commitment to advancing cross-cultural dialogue in modern and contemporary art.

Fong Chung-Ray 馮鍾睿 (b. 1934) is a seminal figure in Chinese abstraction and a founding member of the Fifth Moon Group. Bridging Eastern philosophy and Western modernism, his practice was shaped by training in Taiwan and later influenced by Abstract Expressionism during his Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in the United States. Fong developed an experimental visual language that merges the gestural energy of American painting with the contemplative sensibility of Chinese calligraphy.

His innovations include the creation of a coarse palm-fiber brush in the 1960s, the use of acrylic to emulate ink, and the development of a unique “reverse rubbing” transfer technique—producing richly textured, time-worn surfaces reminiscent of weathered walls and ancient manuscripts. Since the 1980s, Fong has incorporated Buddhist sutras into his compositions, transforming sacred text into meditations on form, formlessness, and impermanence.

Born in Henan, China, and based in San Francisco since 1975, Fong has lived through cultural shifts that profoundly shaped his artistic identity. As a member of the influential Fifth Moon Group, a Rockefeller Foundation fellow, and a lifelong Buddhist practitioner, he has continually expanded the language of abstraction while remaining rooted in Eastern heritage.

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Installation view, AWAI

AWAI
Marina Berio, Aya Fujioka, Asa Hiramatsu
Closing Saturday, December 20, 2025
525 West 26th St, NYC

There’s still time to catch the group exhibition, Awai, at Seizan Gallery before it closes on December 20! Featuring the strikingly distinct practices of Marina Berio, Aya Fujioka, and Asa Hiramatsu—each working in a different medium—the exhibition thoughtfully explores and embodies the delicate, polysemous notion of awai. A classical Japanese term, awai describes an in-between or liminal realm where entities meet, overlap, and interact. It evokes the subtle thresholds between dualities such as light and shadow, self and other, reality and dream.

Marina Berio presents a series of charcoal drawings (2007–2012) that reimagine photographic negatives of landscapes and studios, where light and shadow invert to evoke themes of loss, doubt, and ambivalence. She also debuts three new gum bichromate prints—created with unconventional pigments, including her own blood—that transform family photographs into intimate meditations on memory and the body.

Photographer Aya Fujioka presents selected works from LIFE STUDIES, her newly published series with AKAAKA in Kyoto, capturing fleeting moments of New York life from the late 2000s to 2010s. Influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, her photographs blur the line between the personal and the collective—quiet reflections of her own struggles that become universal meditations on urban existence and human connection.

Self-taught painter Asa Hiramatsu makes her U.S. debut with six new canvases characterized by textured, muted surfaces built through tactile, hand-applied oil paint. Evoking dreamlike stillness, her works transform personal memories and inner visions into quiet explorations of balance and being—where imagination and reality, presence and absence, gently converge.

Be sure to experience it before it closes!

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Group of Japanese tea caddies and incense implements

Ritual and Renewal: Modern Japanese Tea Caddies and Incense Implements
Closing Friday, December 19, 2025
18 East 64th Street, Ste 1F
Open by appointment

Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. warmly invites you to experience Ritual and Renewal: Modern Japanese Tea Caddies and Incense Implements before it closes this Friday!

This intimate winter exhibition presents masterfully crafted tea caddies (Chaire) and incense vessels (Koro & Kogo), each a testament to the artistry and subtle beauty of Japanese ceramics.

These works invite quiet reflection and a deeper connection to the rituals and traditions of Japanese tea culture. Whether cherished as objets d’art or experienced in their ceremonial context, they offer a rare and meditative experience.

Visit before the exhibition ends and immerse yourself in the elegance of ritual and renewal.

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Mebon Reclining Vishnu, National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia © The Royal Government of Cambodia / photo by Thierry Ollivier for the Guimet Museum.

Minneapolis Institute of Art
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

Asia Week New York is delighted to welcome back the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) as one of our esteemed cultural members! Celebrated for one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the country, Mia invites visitors on a journey across centuries and cultures—from the delicate elegance of ancient pottery and bronzes to the bold innovation of contemporary works.

Spanning China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan region, the collection highlights the depth, diversity, and enduring beauty of Asia’s artistic traditions. Visitors can encounter ancient bronzes, ceramics, Buddhist sculpture, woodblock prints, textiles, lacquerware, and more, with Mia’s Chinese bronzes and Japanese art among the finest in the United States

Be sure to experience a few of Mia’s captivating current exhibitions: Royal Bronzes: Cambodian Art of the Divine, on view through January 18, 2026, celebrating the sacred artistry of Cambodia’s bronzes, and The Abstract Worlds of Yoshida Hodaka and Chizuko, opened this past September, offering a striking journey into the inventive realm of modern Japanese abstraction.

Royal Bronzes: Cambodian Art of the Divine
October 25, 2025 – January 18, 2026
Member Days: Jan 1, 10, 17, 2026 from 10am–5pm
Target Galleries

Step into the splendor of Cambodia’s Khmer Empire in Royal Bronzes: Cambodian Art of the Divine, a groundbreaking exhibition in collaboration with the Guimet – National Museum of Asian Arts, France, and the National Museum of Cambodia. While Angkor’s monumental stone temples are world renowned, this exhibition highlights the empire’s exquisite bronze artistry—statues, ritual objects, and artifacts that reveal a fascinating blend of artistic mastery, religious devotion, and royal power.

Featuring more than 200 objects, including a colossal sculpture of the Hindu god Vishnu—a Cambodian national treasure—this exhibition offers an unprecedented look at Khmer bronze craftsmanship brought to light through recent archaeological discoveries. Witness the enduring legacy of Cambodia’s sacred metallurgical traditions and their profound cultural significance.

Don’t miss their curator talks—available to watch anytime on their website!

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Yoshida Chizuko (1924–2017), Jazz, 1954, woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture; formerly given to the Center by H. Ed Robison, in memory of his beloved wife Ulrike Pietzner Robison. 2013.29.539

The Abstract Worlds of Yoshida Hodaka and Chizuko
September 20, 2025 – October 4, 2026
Galleries 251, 252, and 253

Yoshida Hodaka (1926–1995) was born into a family of artists. He was the second son of Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950), a leading Western-style artist in Japan during the early 20th century. Hodaka leaned toward abstraction and began exploring that path after his father’s death in 1950. In 1953, Hodaka married Chizuko (1924–2017), a trained painter. In addition to oil painting, both Hodaka and Chizuko worked in the woodblock print medium. In 1992, Hodaka created a set of six extraordinarily large prints that depict walls with great attention to structural features and surface details. This exhibition showcases the entire wall set together for the first time, along with Chizuko’s abstract works and playful groups of butterflies.

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Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc. Winter 2025 catalog now online

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.
16 East 52nd St, 10th Fl, NYC

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc. is excited to release their seasonal Winter Holiday Booklet filled with beautiful porcelains and works of art in a variety of styles and forms. The booklet is available for free download on their website, and visitors are warmly invited to experience these treasures in person at the gallery on East 52nd Street, open full-time throughout the holiday season.

Whether you’re searching for a thoughtful gift for a collector—or a special treat for yourself—the gallery offers an exceptional selection of objects to enjoy this season and beyond. Explore the collection online, in the catalogue, or in person, and discover pieces that inspire and delight. Ralph M. Chait Galleries looks forward to welcoming you.

To view their new booklet, click here.

Installation view, Clay, Iron, and Fire: The Bizen and Setouchi Heritage

Clay, Iron, and Fire: The Bizen and Setouchi Heritage
Closing Friday, December 12, 2025
16 East 79th Street, Ground Floor, NYC

These are the last days to experience Clay, Iron, and Fire: The Bizen and Setouchi Heritage, a captivating exhibition celebrating the enduring artistry of ceramics and swords from the culturally rich cities of Okayama Prefecture, Japan at Onishi Gallery.

The story of Bizen ware begins 900 years ago when local artisans first produced large vessels, hand-built from iron-rich, brick-red local clay, fired over long periods to develop signature textures and hues from the unpredictable effects of flame and flying ash. Some 300 years later, Bizen ware captured the attention of elite pacesetters who were laying the foundations of chanoyu (the “tea ceremony”). In response, Bizen’s potters created utensils for chanoyu use that have been sought after ever since for their chance effects, rough textures, marks of the maker’s touch, and varied coloration.

Around the same time that Bizen ceramics were first made,  nearby Osafune (modern Setouchi City) became a hub for master swordsmiths, producing nearly half of Japan’s historic blades now designated as National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties. Osafune (Bizen) swords are prized for their beautiful temper line, subtle grain pattern, elegant curvature, and balance of aesthetic grace with battlefield utility.

Setouchi’s artistic heritage also includes Mushiage ware, developed in the 19th century for senior samurai, known for its warm, transparent pine-ash glazes, and Sueki pottery, regarded as a precursor to Bizen ware.

Together, Bizen and Setouchi ceramics and Osafune blades showcase the pinnacle of Japanese traditional craft—centuries of meticulous skill applied to local natural resources, from iron-rich clay and river sand to forests of red pine wood capable of reaching temperatures exceeding 2,000°F.

The exhibition features approximately 30 artists from Bizen and Setouchi, including ceramic masters Isezaki Jun (b. 1936; Living National Treasure, 2004), Yoshimoto Tadashi (b. 1943), Kaneshige Kosuke (b. 1943), Abe Anjin (b. 1938), Takezaki Noriyasu (b. 1968), and many others.

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Ikeda Kiichi, Lacquer Folding Screen with Roof Tiles, 1952, maki-e gold and colored lacquer on wood with shell inlays, 22¾ x 71¾ x ¾ in. (57.7 x 182.2 x 1.7 cm)

Golden Treasures: Japanese Gold Lacquer Boxes
December 10, 2025 – February 6, 2026
8 East 67th Street, NYC

Thomsen Gallery is delighted to invite you to their annual exhibition of Japanese gold lacquers, showcasing works from the early 18th century to the present, with a special focus on exceptional pieces from the modern period (1910s–50s). Discover the artistry and enduring allure of these lacquer works as you immerse yourself in Japan’s rich cultural legacy!

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