36th Annual Benefit Concert Tibet House US
Live event, March 1, 2023, 7:30pm

One of the longest-running and most renowned live cultural events in New York City, the Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert will take place at Carnegie Hall on March 1, 2023 at 7:30pm. The benefit concert, now in its 36th year, is guaranteed to bring a much-needed evening full of amazing music, camaraderie, and one-night-only collaborations. Joining esteemed composer and artistic director Philip Glass, who once again curated this year’s line-up, will be: Allison Russell, Arooj Aftab, Bernard Sumner and Tom Chapman of New Order, Gogol Bordello, Laurie Anderson, Marc Anthony Thompson of Chocolate Genius, Inc. & Zsela, Tenzin Choegyal, The Philip Glass Ensemble, and Martha Mooke & The Scorchio Quartet.

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Wang Yuanqi (1642–1715), Streams and Mountains without End (detail), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), undated, handscroll, ink on paper, 7 1/8 in. x 70 ft. (43.5 x 2133.6 cm), Partial and Promised Gift of the Family of Lo Chia-Lun, 2022 (2022.128)

Learning to Paint in Premodern China,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 18, 2023-January 7, 2024
This exhibition will consider the underexplored question of how painters learned their craft in premodern China. Some painters learned at home, from fathers, mothers, or other relatives among whom painting was a shared language of familial communication. Others learned from friends who shared their passion. Still others turned to painting manuals, treatises that expanded knowledge of painting to anyone who could buy a woodblock-printed book. Paintings from The Met collection, along with a choice selection of important works from local private collectors, will illuminate these and other pathways to becoming a painter in premodern China. The exhibition will be presented in two rotations.

Rotation 1: February 18–July 16, 2023
Rotation 2: August 12, 2023–January 7, 2024

The exhibition will also see the public debut of Wang Yuanqi’s (1642–1715) Streams and Mountains without End, an important monumental handscroll that is a partial and promised gift to the Museum from the family of Lo Chia-lun.

Yongle Moon Flask, Ming dynasty, Yongle period (1403-1424), porcelain,
11 3/8 × 9 3/8 × 5 3/8 in. (28.9 × 23.8 × 14 cm.), 2021.30

Lecture:Embracing the Moon—Chinese Ceramic Art, Old and New,
Art Institute of Chicago
In person event, February 23, 2pm (CST)

Join the Art Institute’s Pritzker Chair of Arts of Asia and curator of Chinese art Tao Wang for an in person discussion of two newly acquired Chinese moon flasks.

Though created centuries apart, the Ming Dynasty Yongle Moon Flask (early 15th century) and Fu Yiyao’s The Essence of Light and the Cadence of Rhythm (2010) share striking similarities. Wang provides a closer look at both in this lecture, delving into the history and cultural significance of the moon flask.

L-R: An assembly of Mughal Emperors and Rajput rulers visiting two holy men, Mewar, circa 1695-1705, Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch; Ganesh Haloi, Untitled 3, 2021, gouache on handmade paper laid on board, Akar Prakar; Hamza and His Men Attacked by a Sea Creature, Mughal style at Bikaner, India, circa 1680, opaque watercolor and gold on paper; and Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini, Nepal, 15th-16th century, gilt copper, Kapoor Galleries

Four dealers from near and far will present memorable exhibitions of classical and contemporary South Asian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian art.

Akar Prakar
Ganesh Haloi: A space left behind
March 16-24
Online exhibition
The art of Ganesh Haloi (born 1936), a Kolkata-based artist, exhibits an innate lyricism coupled with a sense of nostalgia for a lost world.

Art Passages
The Fabled Lands: Persian & Indian Paintings
March 16-24
Online and in-person (by appointment)
Art Passages will exhibit exceptional Indian and Persian paintings, in which they specialize.

Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch LTD
Court Painting from India
March 16-24
Opening reception: Thursday, March 16, 5-8pm
Victoria Munroe
67 East 80 Street, Suite 2
For their thirteenth annual Asia Week exhibition, Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch are offering 44 paintings reflecting the court traditions, both Hindu and Muslim, of India.

Kapoor Galleries
Divine Gestures: Channels of Enlightenment
March 16-24
Opening reception, March 16, 6-8pm
34 East 67th Street, Floor 3
Bringing together some of the most rare and exquisite pieces of sculpture and paintings from India, Nepal, Tibet and ancient Gandhara, Divine Gestures: Channels of Enlightenment lies at the intersection of religious iconography and fine-craftsmanship.

Ōtani Shirō, Shigaraki senmonki (Shigaraki vessel with banded patterning), 2010, 17 3/4 x 12 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. On view in “Clay as Soft Power,” University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Shigaraki: Contemporary Artists on an Ancient Tradition,
Joan B Mirviss LTD
Zoom program, February 23, 5pm EST

Known for its distinctive clay and beautiful natural ash glazes, Shigaraki ware is one of Japan’s celebrated ceramic traditions. As one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kiln sites, Shigaraki has long produced functional vessels with a characteristic rustic appearance in warm, earthy tones. This enormously appealing tradition found a new audience with American artists and collectors in the past few decades, thereby expanding our idea of Shigaraki-yaki’s possibilities. Curator Natsu Oyobe shares this remarkable crossover story, which is the subject of her current exhibition, Clay as Soft Power. She will be joined by two featured artists who will offer key insights into their process of working in this fascinating medium: Shiga-based Ōtani Shiro, a leader in wood-fired ceramics and designated an Intangible Cultural Asset, and American artist Peter Callas, whose originality has pushed the field in new directions and has been twice awarded the Pollock-Krasner Fellowship. Together, they provide an extraordinarily modern view of Shigaraki ware in the 21st century.

PANELISTS:
Peter Callas, artist
Ōtani Shiro, artist
Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, MI
Moderated by Joan Mirviss

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Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Swirls, 1920s-30s, printed gauze-weave (ro) silk with twisted wefts, Promised gift of John C. Weber, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Concludes February 20, 2023

This popular exhibition traces the transformation of the kimono from the late Edo period (1615–1868) through the early 20th century, as the T-shaped garment was adapted to suit the lifestyle of modern Japanese women. It will feature a remarkable selection of works from the renowned John C. Weber Collection of Japanese art that explore the mutual artistic exchanges between the kimono and Western fashion, as well as highlights from The Costume Institute’s collection.

Surface Trend, 2019, Photo: Mary InHea Kang/Courtesy of CFGNY

Refashioning: CFGNY and Wataru Tominaga
Japan Society
Concludes February 19, 2023

Refashioning: CFGNY and Wataru Tominaga is the first show devoted to the art of contemporary fashion at Japan Society. The exhibition explores the work of CFGNY and Wataru Tominaga, two emerging fashion labels that engage with the intersections between fashion, art, and identity. Featuring garments, accessories, and textile-related works, the exhibition examines the ways in which these two practices—one based in New York, and the other in Tokyo—experiment with artistic mediums beyond conventional forms of dress, while challenging preconceived notions of gender and identity.

Manjushri, West Tibet, 12th century, copper alloy and natural pigment, 20 in. Current Donor: Private West Coast collection, Formerly: Tamashige Collection, Japan

New Donations to the Tibet House US Repatriation Collection
Tibet House US
February 14-April 10, 2023

This large sculpture of Manjusri comes from Western Tibet, where the artists drew from Kashmiri examples and pulled iconographic elements from this style of sculpture, however it also includes some obvious representation of a parting from the Kashmiri style. By the 11th century, Western Tibetan rulers had brought over many Kashmiri artists and works of art in order to create images for newly-established Tibetan Buddhist temples in west Tibet.

Drawn from the artistic legacy of medieval Kashmir, as known from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries, is one of extraordinary creativity. Much of what is preserved was produced in the service of Hinduism and Buddhism. A seminal moment in Tibetan Buddhist art can be seen in the late eighth century, when Padmasambhava arrived in Tibet and founded the Nyingma order, the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism. With him came the first wave of external influence, from Kashmir. This wonderful sculpture is highly representative of the Kashmiri style that flourished under the Karkota kings and made its way into Western Tibet at the early stages of artistic development there.

Murase Myōdō, Breaking Waves in the Pines, late 1900s, hanging scroll, ink on paper, Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.155

Symposium: Gender and Voice in Japanese Art,
Denver Art Museum
Online and in person, February 25, 2023, 9am–4pm

The Denver Art Museum is pleased to host a one-day international symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, er Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection. Scholars and specialists from various disciplines will add to the discourse on approaches and methodologies in the study, connoisseurship, and exhibition of Japanese art through the lens of gender, agency, and artistic voice.

This event is fully supported by the generous gift of The William Sharpless Jackson, Jr. Endowment for the Advancement of Asian Art and Culture.

The symposium will be conducted in person in Sturm Grand Pavilion (Martin Building, Level 2) as well as virtually via Zoom. It is free to attend but registration is required.

Speakers:
•Paul Berry, Independent scholar and former professor at Kansai Gaidai University and University of Washington (Kyoto, Japan)
•Patricia Fister, Professor Emeritus, International Research Center for Japanese Studies Director of Research, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute/Center for the Study of Women, Buddhism, and Cultural History (Tokyo, Japan)
•Melissa McCormick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
•Alison J. Miller, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies, The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)
•Amy Beth Stanley, Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
•Marcia A. Yonemoto, Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)

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Ana Zemánková, Untitled, circa 1970, oil pastel and ink on paper, framed, 25 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.
(64.1 x 48.9 cm.)

Eccentric Visions: Works on Paper from a Private Collection,
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA
February 17–March 11, 2023
Opening Reception February 17, 6-8pm

MIYAKO YOSHINAGA is pleased to announce a new exhibition of twenty works on paper from a private collection. The exhibition recreates the distinctive spirit of a lifetime interest in nontraditional techniques, mediums and narrative visions. The exhibition features works dating from the 1970s to 2010s that embody the collector’s open-minded approach with a nod to eccentric imagery. While Susan Te Kahurangi King and Anna Zemánková demonstrate unique visions of self-taught or Outsider Art, Kiki Smith, Jose Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek, Nusra Quereshi and Jennifer Perry Shingelo share issues of identity, gender and family relationships through a variety of media and techniques. While Tony Fitzpatrick, Sue Coe, Joanne Carlson, Mary Frank and Tara Tucker depict surreal imaginings inspired by flora and fauna, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Marc Bell and Frances Hamilton engage in humorous narratives.

The collector and artist, Karen Moss, was born in Boston and moved to Toledo, Ohio when she was eight. This exhibit celebrates a collection based on years of looking at and finding unique artistic visions. The works have greatly enriched the life and home of the collector and now she hopes to share them with a wider audience.

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Sneak Peek—From the Lab: Pigments in Chinese Painting
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
Online event, February 14, 2023, 12pm (EST)

Pigments in the Chinese palette for paintings on silk and paper from the Song dynasty (960–1279) through the early twentieth century were identified in a study of over two hundred paintings from the National Museum of Asian Art’s collections. Detailed studies of both scholar-paintings and portraits revealed that the introduction of new imported pigments such as Prussian blue, invented in Germany in 1704, and cochineal, an insect dye from the Americas, occurred primarily in the products of professional painters. In this talk, senior scientist Blythe McCarthy will discuss the research on Chinese paintings in the context of the museum’s past, present, and future scientific studies of pigments. This multiyear scientific research project was partially funded through grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation. The results of the research are available in the book Scientific Studies of Pigments in Chinese Paintings.

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