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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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Yue Mingjun (2005), Democracy Leading the People, from the Asia House exhibition of Khoan and Michael Sullivan collection of modern Chinese art. More
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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 for 2008
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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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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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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