The Japanese usually are not associated with a consummate connoisseuship of African art, but initiatives by a few curators and the recent showing of Africa Remix at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo seem set to change those perceptions about African art in Japan, its appreciation by a growing audience and new collections of contemporary African art.


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The Painted Ceilings of the Capella Palatina, by Jeremy Johns and Ernst Grube
Jeremy Johns, left, and Ernst Grube, right, at the launch of The Painted Ceilings of the Capella Palatina, at Brunei Gallery, SOAS, on 28 June 2006.
Jeremy Johns, left, and Ernst Grube, right, at the launch of The Painted Ceilings of the Capella Palatina, at Brunei Gallery, SOAS, on 28 June 2006. In the centre, foreground, is Robert Skelton.Photo by Eric Drewski
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The Red Mansion Art Prize Exhibition

The Red Mansion Art Prize, showing works by the winners of the 2007 Art Prize, is on view at the Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins School of Art, from 3 to 20 March 2008, between 10am and 6pm Monday - Friday, and 12noon - 4pm on Saturdays. www.csm.arts.ac.uk Entrance is free.

Meanwhile, Lu Chunsheng, a retrospective curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, is on view at The Red Mansion Foundation galleries to 20 April. Open Monday to Friday by appointment.


Liverpool -- European Capital of Culture

Liverpool's reign as Capital of Culture is in full swing with a comprehensive programme involving all major museums in the city. More


Homage to Gulgee, murdered in Karachi

`Gulgee, murdered in KarachiIsmail Gulgee, pre-eminent South Asian artist, his wife Zareen and a domestic servant were murdered in their home in Karachi, Pakistan. Tributes celebrating the life and work of Gulgee have been pouring in. In 1994, Gulgee spoke to Sajid Rizvi, editor of Eastern Art Report, in a wide ranging interview originally published in Arts and the Islamic World magazine. Click here to go to the interview.

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Corporate Collecting and Arab Art | Shirley Rizvi

Corporate Collecting and Modern Arab art

In the absence of a public policy or resources for acquisition of contemporary art, corporate collecting is playing an increasingly important role in nurturing and promoting modern Arab art, as the experience of Egyptian artists featured in a premier collection at the Four Seasons Nile Plaza Hotel in Cairo demonstrates.. More...

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Angry Words Spoken Softly, by Alanoud Alsharekh

Angry Words Softly Spoken, by Alanoud Alsharekh, deals with the concept of feminism as a cross-cultural literary device that uncovers the social development of women’s emancipatory progress through the work of both English and Arab female novelists.

The main premise of this study relies on many of the theories presented by the 1970’s feminist critical movement, especially that of Elaine Showalter’s tripartite structure.


Column to volume: Formal innovation in Chamba statuary, by Richard Fardon and Christine Stelzig, investigates the appearance on world art markets during the 1970s of statues identified as Chamba from West Africa. Sought after for their artful execution, these statues were stylistically unlike anything previously documented from the region. Are they what the art market claimed? Who made them, when, where and why?


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> Eastern Art in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford
> El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa
> Exploring China's Past
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> Gardens of Korea: Harmony with Intellect and Nature
> Hai Shuet Yeung: Innovation in Abstraction
> History, Culture and Language in Korea
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> Korean True-View Landscape: Paintings by Chong Son (1676-1759)
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