Courtesy Japanese Art Society of America

JASA Collector Show and Tell
Sunday, September 14, 2025, 2–4pm
Midtown New York City (Location to be provided after registration)

The Japanese Art Society of America (JASA), originally founded as the Ukiyo-e Society of America in 1973, traces its origins back to the tradition of Collector Show and Tell gatherings. These informal events were the heart of our community, where collectors came together to share and discuss their treasured Japanese artworks. In honor of these early days, they are thrilled to invite you to a special JASA Collector Show and Tell event, bringing back this cherished tradition.

Join JASA Board Member and collector Elias Martin as they revisit this beloved custom. Bring one or two Japanese prints from any period or genre to share and discuss with fellow JASA members. This casual, engaging gathering offers a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who share a passion for Japanese art, whether you’re an experienced collector or new to the field.

This event is free of charge but exclusively open to JASA members. Space is limited to 15 persons, so please reserve your spot today to ensure you don’t miss out on this enriching afternoon of art, conversation, and camaraderie. The deadline to sign up is September 1 and advance registration is required. To register, click here.

Please contact Cheryl Gall, Membership Coordinator, at [email protected] or 978-600-8128 with any questions.

To learn more, click here.

A Serving Dish (Shakuzara) with the Attributes of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Takaramono), Edo period (1615−1868), ca. 1680, Japan, Hizen ware, Nabeshima type: porcelain with underglaze blue and celadon, diameter: 12⅞ in. (32.8 cm); Courtesy Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art

Asia Week New York is enthusiastically planning for the upcoming fall season of Asian art exhibitions and auction sales. Taking place from September 11–19, seventeen top Asian art galleries and six auction houses will be participating in Asia Week New York Autumn 2025 with their captivating auctions and in-person and online exhibitions.

We will keep you updated on our members’ exhibitions, openings, and sales through our website, social media, and weekly newsletter, with additional announcements leading up to Autumn 2025 and Daily Digest emails to help you track the art you want to see and the events you won’t want to miss.

Until then, we’re excited to showcase our participating member galleries and auction houses getting ready to welcome you next month!

IN-PERSON GALLERIES:

Alisan Fine Arts
Ming Fay: Botanical Curiosities
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 3, 6-8pm
September 3–October 25, 2025

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.
Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art
September 11–30, 2025

Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.
Mavericks: Three Masters of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Private View & Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 3-7pm
September 11–19, 2025

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art
Shufa Essentials: Revisiting the Core Principles
September 11–19, 2025

HK Arts & Antiques LLC
Spanning a Lifetime: Early and Late Works by Cho Yong-IK
September 19–October 3, 2025

Ippodo Gallery
Koichiro Isezaki: Clay in Flow
Opening Artist Talk & Reception: Thursday, September 11, 4–8pm with the Artist
September 11–October 11, 2025

Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art
Japanese Porcelain
September 15–20, 2025

Joan B Mirviss LTD
Collapse / Rebirth II
September 12–October 2025

Onishi Gallery
KOGEI + Market
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 6–8pm
September 11–19, 2025

Scholten Japanese Art
DRAMA QUEENS & KABUKI KINGS: Stars of Edo and Osaka
September 11–October 31, 2025

Seizan Gallery
ASAKO TABATA: WAITING FOR BONES
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 6–8pm
September 4–October 18, 2025

TAI Modern
Suemura Shobun
Opening Reception: Friday, August 29, 5–7pm
August 29–October 4, 2025

Thomsen Gallery
Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu
September 12–October 25, 2025

Zetterquist Galleries
Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean Ceramics from Private American Collections
September 12–19, 2025

GALLERIES WITH ONLINE EXHIBITIONS:

The Art of Japan
Hot Summer, Cool Imagery
September 11–19, 2025

Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints
Modern Masters: 20th Century Japanese Prints
September 11–19, 2025

Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art
Coolness
August 22–September 30, 2025

NYC AUCTION HOUSES:

Bonhams
Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Previews: September 10–14, 10am-5pm
Auction: Monday, September 15, 2025 at 9am

The Francine and Bernard Wald Collection of Fine Snuff Bottles, Part II
Previews: September 10–14, 10am-5pm
Auction: Monday, September 15, 2025 at 12pm

Classical and Modern Chinese Paintings
Previews: September 10–15, 10am-5pm
Auction: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 9am

Fine Japanese Art and Korean Art
Previews: September 10–15, 10am-5pm; September 16, 10am-3pm
Auction: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 10am

Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Online
Previews: Dates forthcoming
Online Auction: Tuesday, September 9–Friday, September 19, 2025 at 12pm

Christie’s

Guided Tours
With Robert D. Mowry, Christie’s Senior Consultant, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus, Harvard Art Museums
Saturday, September 13, 11am–12pm & 3-4pm

Japanese and Korean Art
Previews: September 12–13 & 15, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
Auction: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10am

South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art
Previews: September 12–13 & 15–16, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
Auction: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 10am

Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art
Previews: September 12–13 & 15–17, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
Auction: Thursday & Friday, September 18–19, 2025 at 9am

Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art, including Property from the Pal Family Collection
Previews: September 12–13 & 15–16, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
Online Auction: Wednesday, September 10–Wednesday, 24, 2025, 10am

Arts of Asia Online
Previews: September 12–13 & 15–17, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
Online Auction: Wednesday, September 10–Thursday, 25, 2025, 10am

Doyle
Asian Works of Art
Previews: September 12–15, 12-5pm
2-Day Auction: Tuesday, September 16 & Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 10am

Freeman’s | Hindman
Asian Works of Art
Previews: September 12 & 15–18, 10am-5pm; Sept 13, 10am-4pm
Auction: Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10am

Heritage Auctions
Fine & Decorative Asian Art Signature® Auction #8222
Previews (Highlights Only): September 10–13, 10am-5pm
Auction: Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Sotheby’s
Chinese Art
Previews: September 12 & 15–16, 10am-5pm; Sept 13, 10am-6pm; Sept 14, 12-5pm
Auction: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 9am

Installation view, WHERE WE ARE NOT, photo by Thomas Barratt

WHERE WE ARE NOT
Yasushi Ikejiri, James Isherwood, Tom Nakashima, Danielle Winger
Closing Saturday, August 23, 2025
525 West 26th Street, NYC

Don’t miss the final days of WHERE WE ARE NOT, Seizan Gallery‘s summer group exhibition featuring Yasushi Ikejiri, James Isherwood, Tom Nakashima, and Danielle Winger. Bringing together four distinct yet thematically resonant practices, the exhibition envisions landscapes largely absent of human presence—inviting reflection on place, memory, and the subtle traces we leave behind.

Yasushi Ikejiri, drawing influence from landscape painters like Ivan Shishkin and Edward Hopper, captures overlooked corners of Tokyo with meticulous realism and vivid color. His hauntingly still scenes—recently inspired by Mimei Ogawa’s The Chocolate Candy Angel—depict empty parks and streets strewn with candy wrappers, evoking a quiet, melancholic sense of absence.

James Isherwood paints architectural landscapes where human presence is felt but unseen. Using vivid, surreal color and gestural layers, his dreamlike scenes evoke Hopper and Hockney, yet infused with surrealism. His layered, gestural works conjure scenes that are both familiar and uncanny, blurring the line between reality and imagination.

Tom Nakashima’s work, spanning painting, printmaking, collage, and digital media, explores landscapes shaped by memory and cultural legacy. His meditative scenes, often centered on natural or architectural forms, evoke quiet reflection. His SEIZAN Gallery debut features Hanford K East (20XX), a monumental work inspired by a building at the decommissioned Hanford nuclear site, revealing the hidden histories within abandoned structures.

Danielle Winger paints emotionally charged landscapes inspired by German Romanticism. Through bold brushwork and vivid color, she transforms mountains, forests, and deserts into metaphors for solitude, transcendence, and memory.

Find a refreshing escape from the late-summer weather—visit while you can!

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Courtesy Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

AWAKEN Podcast
Season 5
Launched: August 19, 2025

The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art is excited to launch their fifth season of AWAKEN—a Webby Honoree podcast about the dynamic path to enlightenment and what it means to “wake up.” This season explores interdependence, a fundamental concept in Buddhism and in life that describes the mutual dependence of everything and experience. Hosted by singer, songwriter, and artist Devendra Banhart, the series focuses on a painting of the Wheel of Life from the Rubin Museum’s collection to see what it can teach us about the interconnected nature of existence. Experts in the realms of art, social science, Buddhism, and more illuminate how greater awareness of interdependence can be the wake up call that motivates actions for a better world.

Trailer voices in order of appearance: associate professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions Annabella Pitkin; Tibetan physician, scholar, and founder and medical director of the Sowa Rigpa Institute Dr. Nida Chenagtsang; singer, songwriter, and artist Devendra Banhart; social scientist, physician, and professor Nicholas A. Christakis; pastoral counselor, teacher, and author Pamela Ayo Yetunde.

New episodes will drop every Tuesday on their website and wherever you listen to podcasts.

To learn more and start listening, click here.

Installation view, Light and Grain 秋麦

Light and Grain 秋麦
Closing Saturday, August 23, 2025
65 East 80th Street, NYC

These are the final days to experience Light & Grain 秋麦, a solo exhibition by American photographer Michael Cherney at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art.  The exhibition offers a focused exploration of Cherney’s distinctive photographic practice—at once a contemporary response to classical landscape aesthetics and a visual meditation on the nature of time. Over more than thirty years of living and working in China, Cherney has utilized the camera as a vessel for temporal reflection, guiding the viewer through nuanced encounters with landscape and cultural memory. This exhibition is shaped by a classical Chinese understanding of time—the past lies ahead, visible and examinable, while the future gathers behind, obscured from sight. For Cherney, photography becomes a quiet act of preservation, capturing transient moments within a fixed, visible frame.

In Light & Grain, Michael Cherney traces the flow of time through three movements: Tracing Downstream, where myth and terrain converge; Reflections in Midstream, transforming fleeting instants into scroll- and fan-inspired forms; and The Unseen Upstream, a cross-cultural dialogue of calligraphy and brushwork that gestures toward unseen futures. Enlarging the textures of his negatives, Cherney distills each frame to its essence—“seeing the grand within the small”—merging photographic precision with the spirit of ink painting. These works bring past, present, and future into quiet convergence, holding time momentarily still.

Spanning two decades of work, the exhibition unfolds as a visual journey shaped by place, memory, and the enduring passage of time. Be sure to catch Michael Cherney’s captivating works before it closes!

To learn more, click here.

A Pair of Eight-Panel Folding Screens, Edo period, 19th c., color on gold-leafed paper,

h: 84.8cm x w: 272.8cm (each)

Summer Online Exhibition
August 2025

Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art is pleased to present a special online exhibition, Coolness. This curated selection brings together artworks that evoke a refreshing sense of clarity and calm—inviting viewers to experience a moment of cool respite, even through the act of looking. In a season often marked by heat and intensity, these works offer a visual breeze, reminding us of art’s power to soothe, refresh, and renew.

To view these stunning works, click here.

Installation view, Post-Natural Oasis

Post-Natural Oasis
Closing Friday, August 22, 2025
120 East 65th Street, NYC

Don’t miss Post-Natural Oasis, before it closes August 22 at Alisan Fine Arts! This summer group exhibition brings together Shuyi Cao, Fu Xiaotong, KKD, Leah Ying Lin, Andrew Luk, Man Fung-yi, Anna Danyang Song, and Yi Xin Tong in a striking collection of sculpture, wall reliefs, and object-based works exploring humanity’s evolving relationship with nature. What might a post-natural world look like—whether in the future or along an alternate geological timeline?

Though many pieces incorporate elements from nature, none are truly “natural.” Instead, they probe our instinct to assign cultural meaning to the natural environment. Poetic yet critical, these works balance fragility with absurdity, sincerity with satire. Crafted to appear humble—even charming—they quietly interrogate the violent legacies of exploration, reflecting the layered ambiguities and shifting meanings found in diasporic experience.

Be sure to immerse yourself in these captivating works before they’re gone!

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Installation view, Wang Mengsha: Borrowed Shadows

Wang Mengsha: Borrowed Shadows
Closing Friday, August 22, 2025

Also be sure to view the first U.S. solo exhibition of Beijing-based artist Wang Mengsha before it closes August 22! Known for her ability to blend traditional Chinese painting with a contemporary sensibility, Wang reinterprets the classic ‘xieyi’ style with bold colors, playful imagery, and a touch of humor. Her work often draws on everyday objects, elegant figures, historical Chinese garden settings and scenes from nature, echoing the landscapes and culture of southeastern China.

Wang describes her paintings as dreamlike and fluctuating—like shadows that flicker in and out of view. Rather than aiming for realism, she creates imagined spaces where objects and figures change in scale and perspective. Her concept of “Borrowing Shadow” reflects this approach: using recognizable forms to build a personal, poetic world inspired by Eastern philosophy.

Using a technique from traditional Chinese painting known as scatter-point perspective, Wang builds her compositions in a flowing, intuitive way. This approach allows her to move freely through memories, emotions, and ideas—rather than following a strict or linear story. Hibiscus Garden is a tondo filled with symbols of good fortune – birds, flowers, deer, scholar rocks and other dreamlike objects to invite viewers into a playful world full of curiosity and wonder. Enchanted Purple Gourd is similar, although in this piece there is a pair of bathing maidens as its central subject, surrounded by recurring characters and objects: a cartoon-like tiger, giant birds, roses, and as the title suggests, a vibrant purple gourd. Her art gently questions how we hold on to imagination in a world that often asks us to let it go.

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Installation view, Heated Colors, Hammered Forms: Female Metal Artists of Japan

Heated Colors, Hammered Forms: Female Metal Artists of Japan
Closing Friday, August 22, 2025
16 East 79th Street, NYC

Don’t miss your chance to experience Heated Colors, Hammered Forms: Female Metal Artists of Japan before it closes next week at Onishi Gallery!

This captivating exhibition shines a spotlight on the groundbreaking women who have transformed kogei—an art form traditionally dominated by men and historically linked to the samurai—into a vibrant contemporary practice. Featuring the exceptional work of Osumi Yukie, Oshiyama Motoko, Hagino Noriko, Okamoto Yoshiko, and Otsuki Masako, the show reveals how these artists have mastered the demanding medium of metal to create works as expressive and beautiful as those crafted from more forgiving materials like clay or textiles.

Working with gold, silver, platinum, copper, lead, and unique Japanese alloys, they expertly apply techniques such as casting, chiseling, hammering, and overlay. Though each artist brings her own unique vision, they are united by a profound respect for the rich traditions of Japanese metalcraft.

Discover their extraordinary contemporary masterpieces in person before the exhibition closes!

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Installation view, Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie

Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
Closing Sunday, August 17, 2025
Galleries 963–965

These are the last days to view Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, an exhibition that radically reimagines the story of European porcelain through a feminist lens. When porcelain arrived in early modern Europe from China, it led to the rise of chinoiserie, a decorative style that encompassed Europe’s fantasies of the East and fixations on the exotic, along with new ideas about women, sexuality, and race. This exhibition explores how this fragile material shaped both European women’s identities and racial and cultural stereotypes around Asian women. Shattering the illusion of chinoiserie as a neutral, harmless fantasy, Monstrous Beauty adopts a critical glance at the historical style and its afterlives, recasting negative terms through a lens of female empowerment.

Bringing together nearly 200 historical and contemporary works spanning from 16th-century Europe to contemporary installations by Asian and Asian American women artists, Monstrous Beauty illuminates chinoiserie through a conceptual framework that brings the past into active dialog with the present. In demand during the 1700s as the embodiment of Europe’s fantasy of the East, porcelain accumulated strong associations with female taste over its complex history. Fragile, delicate, and sharp when broken, it became a resonant metaphor for women, who became the protagonists of new narratives around cultural exchange, consumption, and desire.

Don’t miss this captivating presentation before it closes!

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Installation view, Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints

Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints
Closing Sunday, August 17, 2025
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 28

Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints presents a selection of works that center on the human figure. For the artists in this exhibition, the human form and the expressive power of photography and print media offer ways to examine the place of the individual in contemporary society.

Works by Pushpamala N. and Clare Arni, Vivek Vilasini, Ram Rahman, and Naveen Kishore focus on the performing body to confront notions of gender and cultural identity through photography, a medium that has played a complicated role in India since the nineteenth century. Jitish Kallat and Rashid Rana manipulate photographic images to simultaneously assert and dissolve the portrait in jarring compositions that hover between reflections on the public being and the disquiet of the inner self.

Master print artists Krishna Reddy, Chitra Ganesh, and Jyoti Bhatt experiment with provocatively carved lines and vivid colors unique to printmaking. Fragmenting, morphing, and multiplying the figure, these artists incorporate various processes to explore representations of power, place, and sexuality in today’s world.

Drawn from the generous gifts of Drs. Umesh and Sunanda Gaur, Body Transformed reveals the human form as a site of both artistic experimentation and cultural inquiry.

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Installation view, Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God

Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God
Closing Sunday, August 24, 2025
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 24

Imagine a god who appears to you as a mischievous child—you dance together in meadows, play with him, and gift him fruits and flowers. This may give you an idea of how the Hindu Pushtimarg community engages with the divine. They seek to delight and care for the child-god Krishna, and in return, they receive joy and spiritual insight. Delighting Krishna delves into the emotions and philosophy of the Pushtimarg tradition and the ingenuity of its artists. Pushtimarg religious spaces feature monumental paintings of Krishna on cotton cloth known as pichwais. For the first time since the 1970s, these fourteen pichwais from the National Museum of Asian Art’s collections are on view for the public. These paintings are literally larger than life, averaging about eight by eight feet in size. Pichwais are made to serve as backdrops for three-dimensional displays, typically paired with icons of Krishna, music, and scents. This collection of pichwais dates from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and most were painted in Nathdwara, Rajasthan, the global epicenter of the Pushtimarg community. Encounter these intriguing paintings from multiple angles through insights from Hindu community members, curators, conservators, and a conservation scientist. Alongside the pichwais, court paintings illuminate Krishna’s playful charm, and mixed-media works show how the Pushtimarg tradition engages the senses. Awash with color and brimming with joy, these artworks themselves invite delight.

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