Shunkosai Hokushu (active ca. 1802-1832), Actor Ichikawa Ebijuro I as Hayakawa Matabei, signed Shunkosai Hokushu ga, with red artist’s seal Hokushu, followed by the publisher’s seal, Den (Naniwa Iden), role and actor identified at top left, Hayakawa Matabei, Ichikawa Ebijuro, 3rd lunar month, 10th day, 1822, oban tate-e 14 3/4 by 9 7/8 in., 37.4 by 25.2 cm

Drama Queens & Kabuki Kings: Stars of Edo and Osaka
September 11–19, 2025
(otherwise by appointment through October 31st)
145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D

Scholten Japanese Art is delighted to present Drama Queens & Kabuki Kings: Stars of Edo and Osaka during this season of Asia Week New York Autumn 2025. Featuring approximately fifty 19th-century woodblock prints and drawings, the exhibition will focus on portraits of stars and superstars of the kabuki world, including several who expanded their preeminence on the stage by going on tour—traveling back and forth to the major metropolitan arenas of Edo and Osaka.

These kabuki luminaries enjoyed the adoration of their loyal audience who formed fan clubs that frequently and strategically fanned the flames of professional rivalries between actors and their clans. Printed portraits of the actors were produced as advertisements or as visually imbued souvenirs for fans to savor the experience of a memorable performance. In Edo, prints were designed by professional artist and there were hundreds of commercial publishers. In Osaka, patrons of actors financially supported print production, and the designers (until ca. 1830) were primarily kabuki fans who were talented amateur artists unaffiliated with any particular atelier and produced more realistic portraits that bordered on caricatures. In addition, the Osaka prints themselves tended to be of higher quality printing, often at a level associated with deluxe surimono and likewise, issued in significantly fewer quantities. As such, serious kabuki print afficionados have long appreciated the superior quality and rarity of Osaka prints.

They look forward to welcoming you to the gallery—until then, enjoy a sneak peek online today!

To learn more, click here.

First Row (L-R): Courtesy Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.; Zetterquist Galleries; Scholten Japanese Art; Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art; Fu Qiumeng Fine Art. Second Row (L-R): The Art of Japan; Thomsen Gallery; TAI Modern; HK Art and Antiques LLC. Third Row (L-R): Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art; Joan B Mirviss LTD; Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints; Ippodo Gallery; Last Row (L-R): Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.; Alisan Fine Arts; Seizan Gallery; Onishi Gallery

Autumn 2025
September 11—19, 2025

We’re excited to share that Asia Week New York Autumn 2025 will take place from September 11–19! This season brings together extraordinary sales at six leading auction houses—Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, Freeman’s | Hindman, Heritage, and Sotheby’s—along with a vibrant lineup of exhibitions from seventeen Asian art galleries.

Fourteen galleries will open their doors to welcome visitors in person, while three will showcase their exhibitions online. To make it easy to explore, we’ve gathered highlights from each gallery below, organized by category. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating this spectacular fall season of Asian art—mark your calendars and start planning your visits!

Ancient and/or Contemporary Chinese Art

Zhang Yirong 張藝蓉 (b. 1979), Gorgeous Epiphyllums, 2023, Chinese ink on rice paper, 28 x 23⅞ in. (71 x 60.5 cm), 39 x 32¼ x 1⅛ in. (framed) (99.00 x 82.00 x 3.00 cm (framed)) Courtesy Alisan Fine Arts

Alisan Fine Arts
Asia Week Autumn 2025: Ink Painters
September 16 – 20, 2025
120 East 65th Street

Alisan Fine Arts presents a selection of artworks from Chao Chung-Hsiang, Wucius Wong, Lee Chun-yi, Zhang Yirong, and Lui Shoukwan during this fall season of Asia Week New York. Encompassing abstract and figurative, gongbi and highly gestural line work, their presentation showcases the broad variation of styles across two generations of ink painters.

Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Cabinet Rouleau Vase, Kangxi period, AD 1662-1722. height: 10 in. (25.5 cm), Courtesy Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.
Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art
September 11–30, 2025
16 East 52nd Street, 10th floor

This year marks a milestone for Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., as it celebrates its 115th anniversary. Founded in 1910 by Ralph M. Chait, the gallery is now proudly in its fourth generation. To honor this legacy, the autumn presentation offers a distinguished selection of Chinese porcelains and works of art, including exceptional pieces once part of major European and American collections. Many works on view also passed through the gallery decades ago, reflecting how its history continues to shape the present. The gallery invites visitors to explore the exhibition, discover highlights online, and join them during Asia Week New York Autumn 2025 and throughout the year. 

Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802), Poem in Running Script, ink on paper, hanging scroll,Courtesy Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art
Shufa Essentials
September 11–October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5-8pm
Artist Talk & Demonstration: Saturday, September 13, 3:30-5:30pm
65 East 80th Street

On view at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is Shufa Essentials, an exhibition dedicated to the art of Shufa—commonly translated as Chinese calligraphy. Presented from the perspective of a practitioner, the exhibition offers audiences an accessible entry point into the art’s aesthetic foundations, seen through the eyes and hands of one who practices it. Rather than approaching Shufa solely as a visual artifact, the show reveals the art from within, exploring how the process, movement, and tactile sensation of writing shape the beauty that emerges on paper. It is an insider’s view into an art form where the rhythm of breath, the weight of the brush, and the flow of ink are inseparable from the finished work. 

Blue and White Monk’s Cap Ewer, Ming Dynasty, 15th c., China, height: 14.5 cm, Width: 17 cm, Courtesy Zetterquist Galleries

Zetterquist Galleries
Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean Ceramics from American Collections
September 12–19, 2025
3 East 66th Street, 2nd floor

Zetterquist Galleries showcases recent acquisitions of exceptional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean ceramics. The centerpiece is a group of Chinese and Vietnamese works from a private Boston collection, including a rare 15th-century Jingdezhen blue-and-white “Monk’s Cap Ewer” with its original lid, three Tang Dynasty treasures, among them a 7th-century flask with relief dancing boys from JJ Lally & Co., and a graceful “Sancai” circular box. Vietnamese highlights include two celadon ewers and two large plates, one featuring a leaping deer in cobalt blue, the other a vivid island scene in underglaze blue with overglaze green, red, and gold. From the estate of a New York collector comes a refined group of Chinese Song Dynasty wares, while Korean artistry shines in Goryeo celadons of exquisite form and luminous glaze, sourced from American and Japanese collections.

Ancient and/or Contemporary Japanese Art

Utamaro, The Salt Maidens – Matzukase and Murasame on the Suma Shore, c. 1785, woodblock print, 9.25 x 5.75 in., Courtesy The Art of Japan

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

The Art of Japan’s online exhibition brings together works that celebrate the spirit of summertime life in Japan, from the Edo period through Taishō and Shōwa eras. Summer in Japan, as captured in the popular imagery of ukiyo-e, unfolds in lush garden scenes, elegant women in airy fabrics, leisurely strolls in the evening breeze, boat rides, and firework displays along the Sumidagawa and, come nightfall, a ghost story to send shivers before bed.

Group of works by Koinuma Michio, Kawamoto Goro, Tsuboshima Dohei, Courtesy Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.

Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.
Mavericks: Three Masters of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Private View & Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 3-7pm
September 11–19, 2025
18 East 64th Street, Suite 1F

Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. features Mavericks: Three Masters of Modern Japanese Ceramics, a three-person show of works by Kawamoto Goro, Koinuma Michio, and Tsuboshima Dohei. The three artists emerged during a time when the idea of a ceramicist was being challenged: by identifying themselves as individualistic artists, these three figures were part of a generation that elevated the vessel form into high art in Japan, expanding the ceramic category in the latter half of the 20th century. United by a spirit of innovation and avant-garde vision rooted in tradition, their work reflects a deep sensitivity to material and form, shaped by historical precedent and masterful craftsmanship. 

Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921), Woman Applying Powder, 1918, 53.3 x 38.3 cm, Courtesy Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints

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

Modern Masters: 20th Century Japanese Prints at Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints features select works by Kawase Hasui, Oda Kazuma, Kasamatsu Shiro, Ohara Koson, Takahashi Hiroaki, and other modern masters. A highlight of this online exhibition is what scholars consider to be the very first print that ushered in the fresh genre of shin hanga, (“new prints,” at the time called Shinsaku hanga). This print is Hachiguchi Goyo’s elegant masterpiece of a woman applying powder from 1918. Also featured is Night on the Bank of the Sumida River, published by the 22-year-old Watanabe Shôzaburo by the artist Takahashi Hiroaki in 1907.

Koichiro Isezaki (1974-present), Yō 孕, 2025, ceramic, h: 14 5/8 x w: 11 3/4 x d: 11 3/4 in. (h: 37 x w: 30 x e: 30 cm), Courtesy Ippodo Gallery

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

Ippodo Gallery presents Koichiro Isezaki: Clay in Flow, the acclaimed Bizen ceramicist’s second New York solo exhibition. Featuring 50 sculptures—including his iconic Yō (‘conception’) series, chawan (tea bowls), mizusashi (water jars), and hanaire (flower vases)—the show reflects a lineage of master artisans from Okayama who have safeguarded precious regional clay for generations. Isezaki channels this heritage into a contemporary visual language entirely his own, allowing tradition to flow seamlessly into the present. 

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

Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art
Japanese Porcelain
September 15–20, 2025
17 East 76th Street, 3rd Floor

On view at Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art, Japanese Porcelain showcases exceptional Japanese ceramics created for the country’s own elite during the Edo period (1615–1867), wares of bold design, technical mastery, and refined beauty. Made for kaiseki cuisine, tea ceremony, and conspicuous display, these pieces reflect a flourishing era of peace, prosperity, and cultural innovation under Tokugawa rule. Highlights include early Kokutani wares with lush enamels, Kakiemon porcelains renowned for their milky-white glaze and vivid overglaze decoration, and rare Nabeshima pieces once reserved exclusively for the Tokugawa shogunate and samurai elite. Together, they offer a vivid glimpse into the artistry, sophistication, and competitive spirit of Japan’s domestic porcelain tradition, little known in the West yet central to the history of Japanese design. 

Fujino Sachiko (b. 1950), Imagery ’24-4, 2024, stoneware sculpture with white matte airbrushed glaze and accents of light and dark gray in interior, 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in., Courtesy Joan B Mirviss LTD

Joan B Mirviss LTD
Collapse / Rebirth II
September 11–October 2025
39 East 78th Street, 4th floor

Collapse / Rebirth II at Joan B Mirviss LTD is the second conjoint solo exhibition by renowned female ceramists, Fujino Sachiko (b. 1950) and Futamura Yoshimi (b. 1959). While each artist creates works that balance organic spontaneity with deliberate control, their approaches could not be more distinct. In Fujino’s body of work, delicately ruffled, petal-like forms emerge from calculated and geometrical foundations. Futamura treats the surfaces of textured and crevassed biomorphic sculptures with porcelain slip, which she carefully manipulates into crackled striations that evoke an array of natural imagery. Both artists have achieved international renown with their works held in museum collections worldwide. Nearly a decade after the 2016 exhibition that first placed these artists in conversation, Collapse / Rebirth II provides an opportunity to experience these artists’ evolving approaches to clay as a medium of expression. 

Hagino Noriko, Uchidashi Silver Water Jar, 2014, silver, 6 ¼ × 6 × 6 in. (16 × 15 × 15 cm), Courtesy Onishi Gallery

Onishi Gallery
KOGEI + Market
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 6–8pm
Special Talk: Saturday, September 13, 3pm
September 11–30, 2025
16 East 79th Street

This autumn, Onishi Gallery showcases KOGEI + Market, an exhibition exploring the place of KOGEI, Japan’s tradition of elevated craft, within the international art market today and in the future. The exhibition considers how KOGEI relates to modern and contemporary art, as well as to other artistic fields, positioning it within a broader global context. The theme will be further developed through a series of talks accompanying future exhibitions. To launch the conversation, a special panel discussion will be held on Saturday, September 13, featuring David Norman, Jill Newhouse, and gallery owner Nana Onishi.

Shunkosai Hokushu (active ca. 1802-1832), Actor Ichikawa Ebijuro I as Hayakawa Matabei, 1822, woodblock print, 14 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (37.4 x 25.2 cm), Courtesy Scholten Japanese Art

Scholten Japanese Art
DRAMA QUEENS & KABUKI KINGS: Stars of Edo and Osaka
September 11–October 31, 2025
145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D

Celebrating their 25th year and taking center stage at Scholten Japanese Art is DRAMA QUEENS & KABUKI KINGS: Stars of Edo and Osaka, an exhibition of approximately fifty 19th-century woodblock prints and drawings. The exhibition will focus on portraits of stars and superstars of the kabuki world, including several who expanded their preeminence on the stage by going on tour—traveling back and forth to Edo and Osaka. These kabuki luminaries enjoyed the adoration of their loyal audience, who formed fan clubs (hiiki-renchu, or renju) that frequently and strategically fanned the flames of professional rivalries between actors and their clans, with occasional overzealous fandom that resulted in fiery confrontations. In contrast with the prolific output of the professional print artists in Edo, Osaka artists were typically talented amateur artists who were fans of the kabuki, and the prints were produced in far smaller quantities, featuring lavish details such as metallic printing and embossing.

Asako Tabata, The Ferry Approaches, 2024, oil on canvas, 38.2 x 51.3 x 1 in. (97 x 130.3 x 2.5 cm), photo by Kennichi Hashimoto, Courtesy Seizan Gallery

Seizan Gallery
ASAKO TABATA: WAITING FOR BONES
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 6–8pm
September 4–October 18, 2025
525 West 26th Street

On view at Seizan Gallery is ASAKO TABATA: WAITING FOR BONES, Japanese artist Asako Tabata’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring nearly 40 new works, including oil paintings and papier-mâché sculptures created over the past two years, the show blends abstraction with representational motifs. Tabata’s imagery turns inward, depicting women and children with expressionless faces, often confined within enclosed rooms. Many of these new works are deeply marked by the passing of her mother last year. The artist notes that the recurring figures embody her mother, while the scenes reflect her contemplation of mortality and her own eventual death.

Suemura Shobun, Entwined, 1971, black bamboo, rattan, 8.5 x 19 x 19 in., Courtesy TAI Modern

TAI Modern
Suemura Shobun
Opening Reception: Friday, August 29, 5–7pm
August 29–October 4, 2025
1601 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM

Suemura Shobun at TAI Modern is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the celebrated bamboo artist’s work. Spanning over five decades, from 1941 to 1996, this once-in-a-lifetime presentation unites masterpieces from across Suemura’s prolific career, shown together in the gallery for the first time. Renowned for his groundbreaking use of whole culms of black bamboo, Suemura transformed this material into dynamic compositions that swoop, roll, curve, and coil with striking vitality. A stunning highlight is Haze (1962), a signature work that exemplifies his unique style and creative brilliance. While black bamboo remains his signature, the exhibition also showcases works in susutake, madake, and hobichiku bamboo, revealing the extraordinary breadth of his technical skill and creative vision. 

Fukami Sueharu (b. 1947), Ki no toki (Resolute Spirit), 2002, porcelain with seihakuji glaze, on a walnut base, height including base: 68 in. (173 cm), Courtesy Thomsen Gallery

Thomsen Gallery
Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu
September 12–October 25, 2025
8 East 67th Street

Thomsen Gallery presents Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu, its fourth solo exhibition of the artist, featuring 20 works spanning the 1970s to today. Widely regarded as one of Japan’s greatest living ceramic artists, Fukami is celebrated for his soaring vertical and horizontal sculptures. Born into a family of potters in Kyoto, Fukami mastered the medium of clay from a young age and strove to go beyond traditional pottery, moving on to cultivate, as his work and techniques testify, his own signature style. Making innovative use of a technique involving injecting liquid porcelain into a plaster mold at high pressure, Fukami creates sublime sculptures with lustrous surfaces and soaring forms. Finished using a bluish-white glaze, also known as seihakuji, originating from 11th c. China, the resulting pieces have an ethereal quality, which this show serves to illuminate.

A Pair of Eight-Panel Folding Screens, Edo period, 19th c., color on gold-leafed paper, h: 84.8 x w: 272.8 cm (each), Courtesy Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art

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

Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art presents Coolness, a special online exhibition celebrating the refreshing qualities of clarity and calm. This thoughtfully curated selection showcases works that embody the visual and emotional essence of coolness, inviting audiences to pause, reflect, and find renewal through the simple act of looking. Highlighting the enduring power of art to inspire serenity, Coolness offers a timely exploration of tranquility and contemplation in the heart of the season.

Ancient and Contemporary Korean Art

Cho Yong-Ik (1934-2023), Work 68-117, 1968, oil on canvas, 39 x 31 1/2 in. (99 x 80 cm), Courtesy HK Art and Antiques LLC

HK Arts & Antiques LLC
Spanning a Lifetime: Early and Late Works by Cho Yong-IK
September 19–October 3, 2025
49 East 78th Street, Suite 4B

HK Art and Antiques LLC presents a solo exhibition of the late Cho Yong-Ik (1934–2023), a master of Korean abstract art and a seminal figure in the Dansaekhwa movement. Spanning a Lifetime: Early and Late Works by Cho Yong-Ik offers U.S. audiences a rare opportunity to experience the enduring legacy of this pioneering artist. Emerging in the aftermath of the Korean War, Cho sought to redefine Korean identity through abstraction. His vision drew deeply from his lifelong passion for ancient Korean ceramics and artifacts, which he avidly collected. This reverence for tradition, combined with his drive to reshape Korea’s cultural landscape, produced a body of work that bridges history and innovation with profound resonance.

Fragrant Breeze Tea Screen, 1987, madake bamboo and rattan, 12.5 x 35.75 x 3.75 in.

Suemura Shobun
August 29 – October 4, 2025
Opening reception: Friday, August 29, 5-7pm

TAI Modern concludes their summer season and ushers into fall with a retrospective devoted to the work of Suemura Shobun (1917-2000). A true son of Osaka, this exhibition brings together the finest collection of pieces from the artist’s prolific career.

Born Suemura Bunzo in Osaka, his impressive career began with an apprenticieship to noted artist Chikurysai I, and took him to showing at the Nitten Exhibiton an astonishing thirty-six times as well as receiving a host of awards and prizes for his innovative and masterful works.

The works that Suemura became best known for are made from whole culms of black bamboo. According to the artist, “I like working with black bamboo from Kyushu, which has traditionally been used for making fishing poles. When I use this bamboo, the nodes express distinct patterns and rhythm – I find that visual effect so beautiful.” Suemura used this bamboo to create dynamic compositions that swoop, roll, curve, and coil. Haze, a major exhibition piece from 1962, is a stunning example of Suemura’s original style and creative prowess. However, you will see pieces made from susutake, madake, and hobichiku bamboo in a range of styles as well.

They are proud to present this rare opportunity to experience works spanning Suemura’s entire career, from 1941 to 1996—brought together in the gallery for the very first time. Join them in celebrating the opening on Friday, August 29.

To learn more and view the online catalog, click here.

A Beautiful Despair (Blue), 2021, Anila Quayyum Agha, Pakistani-American, b. 1965, lacquered steel and halogen bulb, 60 x 60 x 60 inches, Courtesy of Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NYC, the artist, © Anila Quayyum Agha, photo: Steve Watson/Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX

Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light
August 27, 2025 – April 19, 2026
Seattle Asia Art Museum, South Gallery

The Seattle Asian Art Museum invites you to become part of its new installation, Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light, opening August 27. Agha, a Pakistani American artist, animates spaces with her large-scale sculptural installations. Suspended from the ceiling, Agha’s steel cubes are laser-cut with intricate designs that project geometric shadows onto the visitor. She draws on both the light and dark of her own life, using South Asian art practices to convey the gender discrimination she faced growing up as a young girl in Pakistan. An in-depth exploration of Islamic architecture, art, and identity, this is the first solo exhibition of a Pakistani American artist in SAM’s 90-year history. Agha is carving a name out for herself in the art world. Be sure to visit the Seattle Asian Art Museum for an immersive and illuminating experience!

To learn more, click here.

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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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.

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