Lida Sherafatmand: Early Milestones of an Inner Journey
The subtitle of Lida Sherafatmand’s exhibition at the Roerich Family Museum and Institute, St Petersburg, references an extraordinary citizen of the world, in many ways like Lida herself, in the person of Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих, 9 October, 1874-13 December, 1947), writes SAJID RIZVI. Again, like Lida Sherafatmand, an itinerant artist (in the best sense of that phrase) Roerich demonstrated an...
Kasper König to curate next Manifesta
Berlin-based Kasper König has been selected as Chief Curator of Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, 28 June – 31 October, 2014.. The main venue for Manifesta 10 will be the State Hermitage Museum. The city of St. Petersburg will be a strategic partner of Manifesta 10. Professor Mikhail Borisovich Piotrowsky, General Director of the State Hermitage Museum said, “For the Hermitage contemporary art is a natural, though complex,...
Tributes to Joyce Kallgren
Professor Joyce K. Kallgren passed away on August 3, 2013, writes Chris Robyn, China Books San Francisco, in a note to Humanities and Social Sciences network. Kallgren was Professor at UC Davis and Associate Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. “I had the great pleasure to have worked as her assistant in the early 1990s,” adds Robyn. Obituary:...
Arts & Crafts of the Islamic Lands
Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, says, “Through my school for the traditional arts, I have tried to do what I can to continue the living traditions of the world’s sacred and traditional art forms. It is all too easily forgotten how crucial traditions are in handing on the immense richness of human knowledge, wisdom and skill, and giving them new life and new application. I hope that The School’s...
Emdash Award 2013 for Pilvi Takala
Pilvi Takala is the recipient of the 2013 Emdash Award. The Emdash Award allows an emerging artist based outside the UK to realise a major project at Frieze London as part of the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects programme. Takala’s proposal was selected from over 550 applications by artists from across the world, Frieze said. Takala has chosen to give the opportunity to devise and realise the Emdash Award in 2013 to a group of...
Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture
Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture is a Saffron Asian Art and Society Series book (ISBN 9781872843377, 2012) edited by Yang Chia-Ling 楊佳玲 and Roderick Whitfield. Buy this book | Order this book | Browse digital edition. The book investigates the roles as politician, antiquarian, art dealer, and publisher, of Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866~1940), who, together with his circle of Qing loyalists...
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