View of the Laigu Glacier from Songtsam Laigu Lodge

Discover the breathtaking wonder of glaciers at Songtsam Laigu Lodge—a destination where nature’s majesty meets unparalleled serenity. Laigu Lodge was designed with a strong focus on environmental sustainability. It set a record as the highest and most challenging construction project in Songtsam‘s history. The hotel was first built in Shanghai, divided into 43 modules, and then transported over 23 days across half of China, via the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, to reach Laigu Village, where the modules were assembled into the final structure.

Awarded as winner for best Architectural Design / Heritage Architecture by The Architecture MasterPrize in 2019, the hotel boasts 20 luxurious accommodations including 16 deluxe rooms and 4 superior suites.

Thanks to Laigu Lodge, guests can enjoy breathtaking landscapes that many people only dream of witnessing once in their lifetime, along with an unparalleled glacier experience. Home to Tibet’s largest maritime glacier cluster, the Laigu Glacier, it boasts six glaciers: Meixi, Yalong, Rojiao, Dongga, Xiongjia, and Niuma, each winding like a giant dragon. Standing by these active maritime formations and hearing the cracks of breaking ice is an awe-inspiring encounter of nature’s raw power.

Unforgettable mountain hiking and horseback trips are available, led by local guides, and filled with incredible views of not only the icy blue glaciers, but also of snow-capped peaks, villages and forests. After returning to the lodge, treat yourself to thoughtfully crafted, wholesome meals featuring locally sourced ingredients—succulent yak meat from alpine pastures, Tibetan pork raised by villagers, fresh vegetables from Bomi, walnuts from Tacheng, and fine wine from Shangri-La—all savored against the breathtaking backdrop of mountain vistas framed by expansive picture windows.

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Songtsam Lvgu Lodge, Shangri-La

Songtsam Lvgu Lodge was the first hotel established by Songtsam. After 24 years, its original intention as a home away from home remains unchanged, and it is as warm as ever. It holds countless memories of travelers‘ Shangri-La and serves as a museum that tells the story of Yunnan culture. The various old artifacts were carefully collected over the years by the founder, Mr. Baima Dorji, and they, along with the hotel, bear witness to the preservation and gift of time.

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of downtown Shangri-La, the lodge is a beautiful four-storey stone building housed in a traditional Tibetan dwelling within a self-sufficient farming village, where founder Pema Dorjee spent his childhood. Rooms excel in creating a true feeling of home, all of which are decorated in a Tibetan style and balanced with modern comforts. The inside of the property exhibits an impressive collection of hand-picked antique furniture, Tibetan Thangkas, and handicrafts, as well as traditional intricately woven carpets featured throughout the lodge.

The small village of Xiaojiezi, where the Lvgu Lodge is located, still retains the traditional and rustic appearance of a Yunnan village. Every villager living there interprets the vivid details of Yunnan life through their own perspectives and experiences. They will greet you with warm smiles along the country paths and offer you the warm and simple hospitality.

Shangri-La has long been cherished as a paradise on earth, with its breathtaking landscapes, rich cultural tapestry, and profound spirituality. Embark on your journey and experience it all at Songtsam’s Lvgu Lodge, where your perfect escape awaits!

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Noriko Saitō, Japanese (b. Japan 1973), Sunbeam, 2002, ink and color on paper; drypoint with aquatint, 21 5/8 × 26 9/16 in. (55 × 67.5 cm); Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation in memory of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, 2018.200. © Noriko Saitō. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College; courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums; Will be on display in Future Minded: New Works in the Collection

Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
March 1 – July 21, 2024
Exhibition Tour: Saturday, March 2, 2024 from 12-1pm
Special Exhibitions Gallery (Level 3)

Opening this Friday, March 1st, Future Minded highlights a selection of works acquired in recent years that exemplify the Harvard Art Museums’ collecting vision and strategies. Nearly all are on display for the first time.

The museums are committed to acquiring art that expands the range of artists and cultures represented in the collections; that moves museum practice toward more nuanced understanding of both histories and contemporary issues; and that pushes boundaries and embraces experimentation. Many of the works on view are by living artists, an area of focused growth for the museums.

Staged across two adjacent galleries, the exhibition presents a range of drawings, photographs, prints, paintings, and sculptures spanning centuries and continents. The works are by roughly 30 artists, including Jean (Hans) Arp, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Willie Cole, Pietro Damini, Svenja Deininger, Jeffrey Gibson, Baldwin Lee, Ana Mendieta, Lucia Moholy, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Noriko Saitō, Melissa Shook, Jane Yang-D’Haene, and many others.

Also join a tour of the exhibition on Saturday, March 2nd with chief curator Soyoung Lee to learn insights into this exhibit. Tours are limited to 18 guests and registration will open at 10am the day of the tour.

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Installation view, Bingyi: The Eyes of Chaos, First Floor / Exhibition Hall No.4 4号展厅/ 一层, INKstudio

Bingyi: The Eyes of Chaos
Closing Sunday, February 25, 2024
INKstudio
Red No. 1-B1, Caochangdi, Beijing

There’s still time to visit Bingyi: The Eyes of Chaos at INKstudio before the exhibition closes this Sunday, February 25th.

Bingyi’s third solo show with the gallery debuts her latest grand, speculative narrative about Art and its relationship to Nature, Literature, History and Politics as retold or reimagined from a woman’s point of view.

Bingyi tells her story through two bodies of work resulting from her investigations over the past five years into the origins of the ink monochrome landscape in China: The Eyes of Chaos: Temple of the Matriarch of Painting—the organic development of Bingyi’s land-and-environment art practice into historical landscape painting; and Dream within a Dream within a Dream—a speculative, archaeological reconstruction of the life of Hua, the “Matriarch of Painting.” Hua, it turns out, was not only a visionary woman artist but a philosopher and political thinker who, in the Northern Song, created an alternative aesthetic system that de-centered the Patriarchal, Confucian, Brush-centered and Humanistic mode of literati landscape painting and, from a Woman’s point of view, re-centered the expressive possibilities of brush and ink on Ink and Water, on Taoism and on Nature.

An architectural designer, curator, cultural critic, and social activist, Bingyi has developed a multi-faceted practice that encompasses land-and-environmental art, site-specific architectural installation, musical and literary composition, ink painting, performance art, and filmmaking.

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Shota Suzuki, 蒲公英・環 – Dandelion Fluff, metal, 2023, Photo Credit: Go Sugimoto

Eternal Garden: Metalworks by Shota Suzuki
December 14, 2023 – January 13, 2024
Opening reception with the Artist: December 14 from 6-8pm
RSVP required

Ippodo Gallery presents Eternal Garden: Metalworks by Shota Suzuki, the long awaited second solo exhibition of sculpted metalworks by the distinguished talent from Kyōto. Featuring 26 new works, a delicate mise- en-scène of dandelions, ginkgo leaves, and sakura branches springs to life. Despite the stillness of Suzuki’s metal flowers and plants, the leaves and petals pulsate as part of a scenic whole and signify the fleeting essence of life.

Shota Suzuki (b. 1987) studied metalsmithing at Tohoku University of the Arts, where he mastered skills that enable him to model that which he sees in the world. Each work is faithful to the true size as it would be found in nature. His fascination with metal began with its ability to withstand the test of time; the life cycle of the dandelion is Suzuki’s central theme of the show—the dispersed seeds return their vital energy to the earth and the cycle begins anew. Come by and step into a handcrafted refuge teeming with metal come to life.

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Forms and Formations 
December 5 – 12, 2023
Design Miami, Booth G36

Ippodo Gallery is delighted to announce its return to Design Miami this year. Presenting Forms and Formations, this exhibit introduces a new caliber of Japanese art in a variety of techniques by several masters whose work represents the current state of Japanese fine art: ceramic, glass, lacquer, large sculpture, painting, and architecture.

Form and Formations enlightens audiences about the ways Japanese artists are transforming traditions—materials, techniques, and concepts—to express new ideas in a world of upheaval.

Discover the many contemporary Japanese artists whose work triangulates our lives on this shared planet in the language of forms and formations.

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Ancient & Modern: Pottery from circa 2000 BC to 2000 AD
December 4 – 8, 2023

Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch are pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition Ancient & Modern: Pottery from circa 2000 BC to 2000 AD in collaboration with the renowned sculptural ceramicist Nicholas Rena.

They will be showcasing ancient pottery from pre-historic Iran through to ancient Rome beside Rena’s bold, monochrome ceramics at Pall Mall.

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From a Land of Pestilential Vapors to Paradise on Earth, an Introduction to Treasures from the Yangzi Delta at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Zoom Webinar held on November 14, 2023

In collaboration with The Cleveland Museum of Art, this fascinating webinar explored the recently opened exhibition, China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta, on view at the museum through January 7, 2024.

Moderated by Dessa Goddard, Vice-President, US Head of the Asian Art Group at Bonhams and former Chairman of Asia Week New York, this Zoom webinar was presented by guest speaker Dr. Clarissa Von Spee, the James and Donna Reid Curator of Chinese Art and Interim Curator of Islamic Art, Chair of Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum.

Curated by Dr. von Spee, this is the first exhibition in the West to focus on the artistic production and cultural impact of a region called Jiangnan, located in the coastal area south of the Yangzi River. Dr. von Spee illustrated how this region gained a leading role in China’s artistic production and how it succeeded in setting cultural standards through her research and insights on the exhibited works. Art from Jiangnan—home to such great cities as Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing, as well as to hilly picturesque landscapes interspersed with rivers and lakes—has defined the image of traditional China for the world.

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For the eighth and final post in our 2017 Gallery Hop series, we're focusing on Chinese paintings, prints, textiles and photography, with a 5-mile itinerary that takes you to seven galleries, from the Upper East Side to SoHo. We recommend walking to the first 6 exhibitions (about 1.5 miles), then taking public transportation or a taxi to reach the last gallery in SoHo. And while you're down there, remember that the China Institute is also downtown, at the southern tip of the island.

	Start at China 2000 Fine Art's exhibition at 1556 Third Avenue (at 87th Street). Exhibition on view: Stronger Together: Two Western Artists Who Embraced the Chinese Idiom Focus: Prints by Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg
	Walk two blocks west to Park Avenue, then eight block south on Park. Turn right on 79th Street to reach Kaikodo LLC at number 74. Exhibition on view: River of Stars Focus: Chinese Paintings (13th century to present), Sculptures and Ceramics + Japanese Paintings
	Walk west to Madison Avenue and walk south for five blocks, then make a right on 74th Street to reach M. Sutherland Fine Arts at street number 7. Exhibition on view: Guo Hua: Defining Contemporary Chinese Painting
	Go back to Madison Avenue and continue walking south until you reach 67th Street. Robert Hall Asian Art Ltd is exhibiting at Gallery Vallois America, 27 East 67th Street. Exhibition on view: Chinese Paintings, Works of Art and Snuff Bottles (Note: Michael C. Hughes LLC is also at this location.)
	Go back down Madison Avenue and turn right on 64th Street. At P R P H Books, 26 East 64th Street, you'll find 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop (note: the work on display is for exhibition only, not for sale). Exhibition on view: Masterpieces of Early Chinese Photography
	Head back down Madison Avenue. At the corner of 57th Street, in the historic Fuller Building, you'll find Alan Kennedy on the 8th Floor. Exhibition on view: Chinese and Japanese Paintings and Textiles (Note: Two other participating dealers, J. J. Lally & Co. and DAG Modern, are exhibiting in the building.)
	To reach FitzGerald Fine Arts at 40 Wooster Street, in SoHo, you'll need to take the subway, bus, or a taxi from 57th Street. The 6, N or E subway lines will take you there. Exhibition on view: Beili Liu Focus: Contemporary Chinese Painting

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For the seventh post in our 2017 Gallery Hop series, we're focusing on Chinese sculpture, ceramics and other objects, with a 1.5-mile itinerary that takes you to eight exhibitions along Madison Avenue, from midtown to the Upper East Side.

	Start at Ralph M. Chait Galleries at 16 East 52nd Street, on the 10th floor. Exhibition on view: Spring Collection of Chinese Art Focus: Ceramics and Decorative Objects
	Walk north on Madison Avenue. At the corner of 57th Street, you'll reach the Fuller Building. J. J. Lally & Co. is on the 14th Floor. Exhibition on view: Buddhist Sculpture from Ancient China (Note: Two other participating dealers, Alan Kennedy and DAG Modern, are exhibiting in the building.)
	Continue walking north on Madison Avenue, and make a left on 64th Street to reach Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art at Daniel Crouch Rare Books, street number 24.  Exhibition on view: Littleton & Hennessy – 21 Years Focus: Ceramics and Decorative Objects
	Go back to Madison Avenue and walk up two blocks, making a left at 66th Street. At number 3, you'll find Zetterquist Galleries. Exhibition on view: Chinese and Vietnamese Ceramics with Highlights from the Brow Collection
	Stay right where you are! Priestley & Ferraro are exhibiting in the same building, in apartment 8B. Exhibition on view: Chinese & Korean Ceramics & Works of Art
	Go back to Madison Avenue and walk one block north to reach Michael C. Hughes LLC, exhibiting at Gallery Vallois America, 27 East 67th Street. Exhibition on view: Chinese and Korean Works of Art (Note: Robert Hall Asian Art Ltd is also exhibiting in this location.)
	Walk nine more blocks up Madison Avenue to reach Nicholas Grindley at Hazlitt, 17 East 76th Street. Type of objects on view: Furniture, Scholars' Objects and Sculpture
	One block north, in The Mark Hotel, Suite 1207, there's Andrew Kahane, Ltd. Exhibition on view: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Note: This exhibition is only open March 10–12. You can also catch The Art of Japan in the hotel, in Suite 215.)

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