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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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Announcing a major new publication
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 The Painted Ceilings of the Capella Palatina, by Jeremy Johns and Ernst Grube
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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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 TRAVEL FEATURE: Egypt off the Beaten Track
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'Ghulam Ali,' by Seamus Murphy in A Darkness Visible, currently at the Asia House London. More
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Essex celebrates Jiangsu link in style with cultural festival More
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New Shows
- A Darkness Visible, at the Asia House London
- Art from Tibet: Tsering Nyandak at Rossi and Rossi
- Challenging Stereotypes: Art from the British Virgin Islands
- LONDON: Searching for a Bigger Subject: Tony Foster's watercolour diaries from Everest and the Grand Canyon, at the Bankside Gallery
- LONDON: Zhang Qikai at the Morlborough gallery
- London: Flooding the Forbidden City: Paintings by Chen Lianqing
- LONDON: Susan Pui San Lok: Faster, Higher, at the BFI Gallery
- LONDON: Kyoko Kanda at the Union Gallery, London
- LONDON: Lee Sea Hyun at the Union Gallery, London
- LONDON: The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting to open at Tate Britain
- LONDON: Icons of Revolution: Mao badges then and now, at the British Museum
- LONDON: Solstice: Neeta Madahar at the PM Gallery
- LONDON: Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair
- LONDON: Contemporary Korean Art from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
- LONDON: Modern Chinese Art - A New Generation, at Asia House
- LONDON: Luminescence: Installation and photography by Yukako Shibata, at Daiwa Japan House
- FLORENCE: China: at the Court of the Emperors: Unknown masterpieces from Han tradition to Tang elegance (25-907)
- GRANADA: A meeting of hearts and minds at Alhambra | The Mapfre Hay Festival, Granada
- HONG KONG: 'As Free as a Bird' -- New paintings by Ye Yongqing
- LONDON: China Design Now, at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- LONDON: Xu Bing at the Albion Gallery
- SAN SEBASTIAN: ENTELEQUIA: Nori Ushijima
- HONG KONG: ART HK08 announces exhibitors
- LONDON: Carolinda Tolstoy at the Arts Club
- LONDON: Free Range 2008: ‘The World’s Largest Art Happening’
- LONDON: Painting after Painting – Yang Qian at The Red Mansion Foundation
- LONDON: China: Symbols in Silk at the Horniman Museum
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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.
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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
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Homage to Gulgee, murdered in Karachi
 Ismail 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.
News Reports | Dawn | The News | United Press International
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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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Forthcoming serials from EAP
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East Asia Journal Volume II, featuring essays by Gina Barnes, Chialing Yang, Su Hsing-lin | More
Eastern Art Report Issue 63, The Call of Korea, focused on traditional and contemporary Korean art and architecture
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Provocative new ideas ...
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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.
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 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 Report Online Forum | Go to the blog
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Korean Linguistics
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Saffron Korea Linguistics Series New and Forthcoming Titles
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