ASIA WEEK

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!

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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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Courtesy Thomsen Gallery

Chambre d’Amis
July 27 – 31, 2025
Opening Preview: Sunday July 27, 2-8pm
Exhibition Hours: July 28-31, 12-7pm
Olaf-Gulbransson Museum, Kurgarten 5, 83684 Tegernsee, Germany

Thomsen Gallery is delighted to participate in the art salon Chambres d’Amis, to be held at the Olaf-Gulbransson Museum in Tegernsee, Germany, July 27-31! The salon is a curated sales exhibition juxtaposing contemporary art, old master paintings and drawings, as well as high-end jewelry and Japanese art in a museum context. A selection of sculptures will be on view at the nearby castle Herzogliches Schloss Tegernsee.

Thomsen Gallery will present a refined selection of Japanese art with a focus on Japanese gold lacquer boxes, ceramics, and bamboo ikebana baskets as well as Japanese folding screens and scroll paintings.

They warmly invite you to visit them at the Olaf Gulbransson Museum and experience this exceptional salon from July 27–31.

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(Right): Kai Tsujimura, Shigaraki Wide-Mouthed Jar 信楽広口壺, 2019, ceramic, H23 5/8 x W20 7/8 x D20 7/8 in (H60 x W53 x D53 cm)

Aspen Art Fair
July 29 – August 2, 2025
Collectors’ Preview: Tuesday, July 29, 11am-3pm
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 29, 3-5pm
Fair Hours: July 30-August 1, 12-6pm & August 2, 11am-4pm
Hotel Jerome, 330 E Main St, Aspen, CO

Ippodo Gallery is proud to make its debut at the second annual Aspen Art Fair, held at the historic Hotel Jerome in the heart of Colorado’s majestic Rockies from July 29 to August 2, 2025.

Coinciding with Aspen Art Week—an internationally celebrated gathering of artists, curators, collectors, and gallerists—the fair offers a vibrant platform for global art exchange in a uniquely intimate alpine setting. They invite you to Room 121 to experience their curated presentation of works that bridge tradition and contemporary expression.

For ticket information and to learn more, click here.

To learn more about the Aspen Art Fair, click here.

Very Rare Chinese Canton Enamel Brushpot, early 18th century, height: 4 ¾ inches (12 cm.), Ex: Private New York Collection

The Newport Show
July 26 – 27, 2025
Gala Preview: Friday, July 25 from 6-9pm
Fair Hours: Saturday, July 26 & Sunday, July 27 from 10am-5pm
St. George’s School Ice Rink – 375 Purgatory Road, Middletown, RI

The summer exhibition schedule is changing this year for Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.! They will be exhibiting for the first time at the Newport Show, from July 26-27 with the Gala Preview on July 25!

The show is a high point of the summer social season and a not to be missed opportunity for fine art and antiques aficionados. It is the main fundraiser for its two beneficiaries, the Newport Historical Society and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County.

As always, Ralph M. Chait Galleries look forward to welcoming you to their booth and are always delighted to hear from you.

To learn more about The Newport Show, click here.

Also be sure to check out the gallery’s recently released Summer Booklet filled with new acquisitions in many directions, including porcelains and later bronzes. You may find one or more to match an occasion or simply add enjoyment into your own collection!

To view the catalog online, click here.