Installation view with flower arrangements by Eriko Nagata Floral Studio, Notes on Blue: The Art of Blue in Japanese Ceramics

Notes on Blue: The Art of Blue in Japanese Ceramics
Closing Friday, August 15, 2025
Closing weekend hours: Saturday, August 9, 11am-5pm; closed on Sunday
18 East 64th St, Ste 1F, NYC

There’s still time to catch Notes on Blue, Dai Ichi Arts’ summer exhibition celebrating the serene and multifaceted beauty of blue in Japanese ceramics—on view through August 15!

In Japanese art history, the color blue (ao) has an enduring legacy in both cultural significance and visual expression. As an island nation, nearly every region of Japan is bordered by the sea, making blue a deep source of inspiration in the physical landscape and the collective imagination. In the world of ceramics, the color blue offers a vast oasis of potential in visual expression, achieved through innovative and technically demanding glazes: most notably celadon and sometsuke (blue-and-white ware). Beyond these glazes, blue also emerges through other techniques such as neriage (marbelized clay), or in sculptural forms where color becomes structural rather than surface.

This stunning exhibition explores the diverse ways in which contemporary and modern ceramic artists engage with the color blue in visually compelling and innovative ways, celebrating its beauty, material complexity, and legacy in Japanese contemporary art and art history.

The gallery is also excited to launch their new E-Shop on Monday, August 11! They hope to bring more beautiful experiences for collectors, connoisseurs, and curators of Japanese ceramics. Stay tuned for more exciting news!

To view exhibition works, click here.

Agra Carpet, India, c. first half 19th century, an early and refined Agra carpet with an overall Mughal floral lattice that is both playfully drawn and precisely rendered, 9 ft. 1 in. x 11 ft. 10 in., Lot 20, estimate: US$4,000-6,000; Antique Rugs and Textiles Online Sale

Online Auction: Antique Rugs and Textiles
Ending August 14, 2025 at 1pm

Bonhams Skinner is pleased to present another exceptional online auction of Fine Carpets & Rare Textiles, running from August 4–14.

This carefully curated sale features an expansive selection of antique room-size carpets and collectible rugs from across the Middle East, India, China, Europe, and the Caucasus—offering unique pieces for both seasoned collectors and design enthusiasts.

Bidding is now open and will close on August 14 at 1pm (EDT). Don’t miss the opportunity to acquire rare and timeless textiles from around the world!

To learn more and place your bids, click here.

Sarah Sze, Sleepers, 2024, mixed media, paper, strings, video projectors, and aluminum, dimensions variable. Denver Art Museum: Modern and Contemporary Art acquisition funds and support from David Gill, Nisha and Viraj Mehta, and Takeo Obayashi, 2024.897.1-3.

Fuse Box: Sarah Sze
On view through July 2026
Hamilton Building, Level 4

The Denver Art Museum is proud to debut Sleepers, a recently acquired new media installation by internationally acclaimed artist and 2003 MacArthur Fellow Sarah Sze.

In Sleepers, a six-channel video installation, moving images are projected onto over 300 hand-torn paper screens suspended from parallel lines of string. Sze’s visuals of landscapes, still-lifeism and portraits celebrate the mundane and the extraordinary, the personal and the universal, the eternal and the ephemeral, exploring our relationship with an ever-changing digital world.

Since the late 1990s, Sze has created expansive and idiosyncratic sculptures that begin with fractal-like compositions and explode into architectural space. Suffusing her dynamic constellations of everyday objects and materials with moving image projections, Sze conflates physical and digital environments to bring us closer to our current reality. To create Sleepers, the artist filmed and recorded using her iPhone and culled from various online stock footage libraries. Sleepers is Sze’s first artwork with recorded and edited sound, with everyday life serving as the primary focus of her work.

Fuse Box is a project space dedicated to the presentation of significant new media artworks created by artists recognized for their pioneering practices in film, video, sound, animation, and computer programming, including gaming, internet art, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, machine learning, and other nascent technologies.

To learn more, click here.

Installation view, Spacetime and Landscapes, Lake Songshan Wangye Museum, Dongguan, China

Spacetime and Landscapes
Extended until September 15, 2025
Lake Songshan Wangye Museum
Dongguan, China

Due to overwhelming popularity, the exhibition Spacetime and Landscapes, featuring the work of Eric Zetterquist, photographer and founder of the esteemed Zetterquist Galleries, has been extended until September 15 at the Lake Songshan Wangye Museum in Dongguan, China!

Since its debut in November, the exhibition has drawn a steadily growing audience, captivated by its unique blend of cultural depth and visual innovation. Inspired by the museum’s rich collection of Chinese ceramics and antiquities, Zetterquist offers a contemporary reimagining of ancient artifacts. Through his meticulous lens, he isolates subtle details and explores negative space, transforming these objects into striking modern abstractions that echo the timeless beauty of their origins.

Spacetime and Landscapes invites viewers into a visual dialogue between East and West, past and present. By bridging classical traditions and minimalist aesthetics, the exhibition illuminates the shared human impulse to create, interpret, and reflect. This powerful cross-cultural narrative offers not only a feast for the eyes but also an opportunity for profound historical and philosophical reflection.

Don’t miss this opportunity to experience a show that transcends borders—both geographical and temporal!

To learn more about these works, click here.

Installation view, Susumu Shingu: Elated!

Susumu Shingu: Elated!
Closing Sunday, August 10, 2025

There’s still time to experience the solo exhibition of the acclaimed sculptor Susumu Shingu (b. 1937) at Japan Society before it closes August 10! Susumu Shingu: Elated!, marks the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City and features his mesmerizing sculptures that make visible the invisible forces of wind, heat, and gravity, while encouraging a heightened awareness of the natural environment.

Since the 1960s, Susumu Shingu (b. 1937) has designed and engineered kinetic artworks that enliven parks, plazas, and public spaces around the globe. His traveling outdoor exhibition Windcircus completed a U.S. tour in 1988, visiting sites in New York; Fall River, Massachusetts; Chicago; Boston; and Los Angeles. Since 1989, his collaborations with Italian architect Renzo Piano (b. 1937), including Boundless Sky (1994) suspended in Kansai International Airport terminal building, have become world renowned. Shingu has also created several site-specific, monumental sculptures permanently installed in New York City: Dialog with the Sun (1995), Distant Sky (2012) and Rainbow Leaves (2021).

Celebrating Shingu’s long and impactful career, this exhibition encourages us to contemplate our changing climate while appreciating summer breezes, inside and beyond the gallery walls.

To learn more and plan your visit, click here.

Amida Raigo (Descent of Buddha Amitabha) detail, late 13th century, Japan, hanging scroll (detail), ink, color, and gold on silk, image only: H. 38 3/4 x W. 16 1/2 in. (98.4 x 41.9 cm); Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.191

(Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection
Extended through January 4, 2026

Asia Society Museum is pleased to announce the extended run of its critically acclaimed exhibition, now on view through January 4, 2026. This innovative presentation offers a bold reimagining of the Museum’s renowned Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of pre-modern Asian art, seen anew through the eyes of three leading contemporary artists: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell.

Bringing together the historic and the contemporary, each artist has selected works from the collection to engage with directly—placing their own new and existing artworks in conversation with centuries-old objects. Their interventions, drawn from diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic practices, open up unexpected and deeply personal dialogues with the past. Through these layered perspectives, the exhibition challenges singular narratives and invites viewers to reconsider what it means to connect across time, geography, and identity. Whether through Banerjee’s richly associative installations, Kim’s meditative abstraction, or Pindell’s textured and incisive works, each artist brings fresh insight into the collection’s enduring relevance and global resonance.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience the Rockefeller Collection through a contemporary lens—expanded, recontextualized, and alive with new meaning!

To learn more, click here.

Courtesy Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

Light & Grain 秋麦 | Poetry Sharing Evening
Friday, August 8, 2025 from 6:30-8pm
65 East 80th St, NYC

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is excited to host a special Poetry Sharing Evening on Friday, August 8 from 6:30-8pm, as part of the public programming for Light & Grain 秋麦.

In his recent Within the Gates series, Michael Cherney explores the expressive possibilities of bilingual visual language, translating poetry into calligraphic form to transcend linguistic boundaries and create spaces for shared reflection. Many works in the exhibition unfold as poetic narratives suspended across slices of time and space, contemplating nature, revisiting historical figures or events, or tracing personal and collective memory. Unlike the suggestive imagery that language often evokes, Cherney’s photographic poetics frequently operate through omission and absence, inviting viewers to engage with what lies unspoken or unseen.

For this event, we warmly invite guests to share poems that resonate personally, regardless of language, origin, or authorship. Participants may choose to read favorite poems by others, present their compositions, or share translations that bridge languages and traditions. In the spirit of the exhibition, this evening hopes to create a space where words and images, presence and suggestion, meet, offering a quiet encounter with poetry’s capacity to transcend form.

Don’t miss out on this special evening – RSVP here!

Krishna Reddy (1925-2018), Two Fishes, 1957, 2024-118-29

Krishna Reddy: The Movement of Life
August 2 – December 8, 2025
Tour: Saturday, August 2 & Friday, August 15, 1:30-2:15pm
Workshop: Saturday, August 2, 2:30-3:30pm
Korman Galleries 221–223

Krishna Reddy was a key member of the influential printmaking studio Atelier 17 in Paris, where he helped develop color viscosity printing, a technique that expanded both the technical and expressive possibilities for rendering the natural world in print.

This exhibition, timed to coincide with the centenary of Reddy’s birth, explores his abstract images of seeds, flowers, insects, water, and the human figure. Dazzling feats of color and texture, Reddy’s color prints vibrate with the cosmic energy that, according to his personal philosophy, pulses through and connects all elements of nature. Celebrating the gift of 63 prints from the collection of Drs. Umesh and Sunanda Gaur to the PMA, Krishna Reddy: The Movement of Life articulates how Reddy’s iterative working process was an extension of his spiritual beliefs. As works of art, his prints were imbued with a life force of their own. By modifying an image over time—either by reworking his plates or printing in different color combinations—a single composition could be given a new life with each printing.

​Join Heather Hughes and Christina Taylor for special tours on August 2 & 15! Learn how Reddy’s abstract images of plants, insects, water, and humans showcase his personal philosophy that a life force connects all elements of nature. The tours will also include a discussion of the artist’s experimental printmaking techniques, drawing attention to how he modified an image over time by reworking his plates and by printing in different color combinations. Visitors are encouraged to look closely and observe how a single composition is given a new life with each printing. Learn more and sign up here.

Also learn from nature during an outdoor workshop in the Sculpture Garden also on Saturday, August 2! Participants will explore the forms and structures of the natural world by experimenting with drawing and frottage techniques. Learn more and sign up here.

Don’t miss this vibrant tribute to one of the most innovative printmakers of the 20th century!

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Unidentified painter and calligrapher, Tale of the Fox (Kitsune no sōshi), 1669, handscroll: ink and color on paper, image: 8 1/8 in. × 26 ft. 7 5/16 in. (20.6 × 811 cm), overall with mounting: 8 1/8 in. × 28 ft. 2 9/16 in. (20.6 × 860 cm), overall with knobs: 8 3/4 in. × 28 ft. 2 9/16 in. (22.2 × 860 cm), Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2020, 2020.396.19

The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection
Closing Sunday, August 3, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue, Galleries 223–232

Don’t miss the final days of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s extraordinary exhibition drawn from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection—one of the finest and most comprehensive holdings of Japanese art outside Japan. This donated and promised gift to the Museum features over 160 rare and exquisite works created in Japan across nearly a thousand years.

The exhibition explores the celebrated “Three Perfections” of East Asian culture—poetry, calligraphy, and painting—revealing their profound interplay and enduring influence. Visitors will encounter luminous folding screens adorned with poems on lavishly decorated papers, dynamic Zen calligraphy from medieval Kyoto, and hanging scrolls blending image and text to evoke Chinese and Japanese literary classics. Complementing these are ceramics used in tea gatherings and other objects that reflect Japan’s rich artistic traditions.

This is a unique opportunity to experience the depth and beauty of Japanese art history. Be sure to catch it before it closes!

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