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Monday, February 17, 2025
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New Cycles of Clay: The Ceramic Narratives of Sunkoo Yuh
Place: The Charles B. Wang Center - Stony Brook, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Road, New York, USA
Date: Mar 07, 2025 to May 24, 2025
Detail: Exhibition Opening Reception
Friday, March 7, 2025 @ 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Skylight Gallery
Free Admission

Cycles of Clay explores the profound creativity of Sunkoo Yuh, an artist who navigates the intersections of cultural heritage and contemporary expression. Yuh’s ceramic sculptures combine bold colors, evocative imagery, and intricate figures layered vertically to evoke histories and community connection. Themes of Buddhist cycles, Confucian ideals, and sociopolitical commentary permeate his works, which includes monumental pieces like Long Beach Summer and Athens Winter. Through experimental glazing and unpredictable firing techniques, Yuh captures the tension between order and chaos to create visually compelling sculptures that explore life’s beauty, fragility, and complexity.

This exhibition is curated by Jinyoung A. Jin, the director of Asian art and culture at the Charles B. Wang Center.

The Wang Center will host the opening reception for this exhibition with Club Red, an informal gathering for all faculty and staff from every department across Stony Brook University, including both East and West Campuses. Join us for engaging conversations and getting to know each other better over refreshments, good company, and art!

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New Asia Week New York
Place: Throughout metropolitan New York - New York, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: Carrying forth a mission to celebrate and promote Asian art in New York City, Asia Week New York is a collaboration of top-tier Asian art specialists, major auction houses, and world-renowned museums and Asian cultural institutions in the metropolitan New York area. The Asia Week New York Association concentrates its efforts on presenting one non-stop, event-filled week in March of every year, drawing collectors and curators from every corner of the United States and an international clientele from across the globe. The annual event fulfills the broader aim of affirming the importance of Asian art in the citywide—and nationwide—cultural scene.

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New New Acquisitions
Place: Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art @ Nicholas Hall - New York, 17 East 76th Street, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 18, 2025
Detail: Asia Week hours: 10am-6pm

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New India’s Fascination with the Natural World
Place: Francesca Galloway @ Les Enluminures Gallery - New York, 23 East 73rd Street, 7th floor, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 20, 2025
Detail: ndia’s Fascination with the Natural World
Mughal, Rajput and Company School Paintings
March 13 – 20, 2025
Exhibiting at: Les Enluminures Gallery, 23 East 73rd Street, 7th floor Penthouse
Asia Week hours: 10am-6pm (otherwise by appointment)

In 1621 a zebra from eastern Africa was presented to the emperor Jahangir, who had never seen an animal like this and thought his coat had been painted. But ‘after inspection it was clear that that was how God had made it’ (Jahangirnama -Memoirs of Jahangir Emperor of India). And so he had his master artist Mansur paint this zebra. This painting is currently on display in The Great Mughals exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (Nov. 2024 – May 2025).

Our Mughal zebra, which we are proud to present at Asia Week, is of a similar date, but by a different hand. Such paintings are extremely rare and important, because they illustrate Imperial fascination with the wider natural world – animals that were not indigenous to India, like red squirrels, turkeys, ostriches and in our case a zebra.

A late 16th century Mughal portrait of a caparisoned horse with its three grooms, in spectacular condition, has a most unusual background, which evokes a Rothko painting. This miniature was once in the Imperial Mughal library, confirmed by numerous 17th century seals and inscriptions on the verso. The highly influential Mughal courtier, Asaf Khan,‘borrowed’ this painting during his lifetime. Of Persian origin, he became prime minister to Jahangir and later to Shah Jahan, and his daughter, Mumtaz Mahal, was the beloved wife of Shah Jahan who built the Taj Mahal in her memory.

India’s natural world also enchanted foreigners who spent time in this country. Foremost amongst these was Lady Impey who commissioned master artists, trained in the naturalistic Mughal tradition, to depict the animals in her Calcutta menagerie. In Indian art the Impey series of natural history drawings are considered the finest of their kind. Our notoriously cheerful and cheeky Lorikeet is from Lady Impey’s collection. The Rainbow Lorikeet are native to Australia but are also to be found in India.

Our large, bust-length portrait of a beguiling Mughal Princess is by an unknown 18th century master. She holds a Phalsa (an Indian berry) between her left thumb and forefinger because it was to be consumed with wine, in the tiny blue and white porcelain cup she holds in her right hand – a delicious delicacy of the time.

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New Indian Art: Latest Acquisitions (online)
Place: Art Passages - San Francisco, 3450 Sacramento Street, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: Indian Art: Latest Acquisitions will be an online presentation of Indian paintings exhibiting a wide array of schools and subject matter. From Mughal portraiture to Company School, these paintings reflect the taste and interest of their patrons: Nobles, devotees, and English resident rulers of India.

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New Kang Chunhui and Ethan Su: New Approaches to Gongbi Painting
Place: INKstudio - New York, By appointment only, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: One of the highlights featured in our upcoming Asia Week New York exhibition is “Sumeru No. 34,” which is part of Kang Chunhui’s Sumeru series. The series explores the relationship between color, shape, light, dimension, and boundary through the form of the fold. Folds of draping fabric are a key artistic element in Gandharan Greco-Buddhist sculpture and form the basis for the brush-line mode of early Chinese figure painting that later becomes the essence of East Asian brush painting

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New From Timber to Tiger: the Many Bamboos of Japanese Bamboo Art
Place: TAI Modern @ Colnaghi - New York, 23 East 67th Street, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: We are excited to once again exhibit during Asia Week New York this March at Colnaghi on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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New Classical Art from India and the Himalayas
Place: Carlton Rochell Asian Art @ Adam Williams Fine Art - New York, 24 East 80th Street, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: We are delighted to present several notable works from Tibet in this year’s Asia Week exhibition. From an American private collection is a rare image of the Buddhist divinity Kalacakra, beautifully cast in copper alloy and sumptuously gilded. It dates to the 18th century and shares some stylistic influences from the finest Qianlong period sculptures from China.

Another exquisite work is a painting depicting the Second Taklung Abbot Kuyalwa, commissioned for the Riwoche Monastery in Tibet and dating to c.1297-1366. This regal portrait has survived in remarkable condition with its vibrant mineral-based color palette of rich reds, blues, and yellows. The intricate details of his robe, throne and surrounding lineage figures are drawn in extremely-fine detail.

Finally, there is an elegant standing figure of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara hailing from the renowned Zimmerman Collection. One of the most popular bodhisattvas in the Buddhist pantheon, Avalokitesvara’s elegant tribhanga pose and right hand in a mudra bestowing charity reinforce his divine countenance. This work, which dates from the 15th century, has been published numerously in many exhibition catalogs.

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New Green Glazed Ceramics from China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam
Place: Zetterquist Galleries - New York, 3 East 66th Street, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: Asia Week hours: by appointment from 11am-6pm daily

We are delighted to present an extraordinary exhibition of green glazed ceramics from China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam during Asia Week New York this March. Green Glazed Wares from China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam illustrates the evolution of celadons and other green glazes from their nexus in China to their adaption in other parts of Asia over 1400 years, and offers viewers a rare and valuable mini-course in these fields.

Nearly half of the objects are exquisite examples of Goryeo Dynasty (11th – 13th c.) Korean celadons, offering a rare opportunity to learn about this underappreciated field. The star of this group is a large tile from the 12th – 13th century with inlaid black and white scrolling floral and flying crane decoration, all under an ideally realized sweet blueish green celadon glaze. It comes from a Japanese collection, with only five other known examples of this type outside of Korea. Other examples from Korea include large pear-shaped vases, bowls and plates with varied decorative techniques and glaze tones.

Chinese pieces offer the greatest range of age, from the 5th century through the 18th century, most from old American and Japanese collections. The glaze types range from early Yue-ware examples to an 18th century “tea dust” glazed scholar’s object, with examples from several Northern and Southern Chinese kilns. A highlight of this group is a small “Yen-Yen”, otherwise known as “Phoenix Tail” shaped vase from the Yuan Dynasty, with applied decoration of scrolling flowers above a deeply carved band of elongated lotus petals, all beneath a ridged trumpet neck. Used as devotional flower vases, these pieces were often exported to Japan and Southeast Asia in the 14th century. This example is presented with double boxes and tea silks.

There are three examples of Vietnamese celadons, all from the 14th and 15th centuries, both from important American collections.

Another star of the show is a large Japanese “Ao-Oribe” indented bowl from the late 16th – early 17th century. The corners are dipped in an dark grassy green glaze, framing a central diagonal field of brown playful scrolling tendril decoration. The other Japanese entry is a 13th – 14th century Ko-Seto ewer with streaming translucent ash glaze.

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New What’s in a Title: Japanese Works of Art from Ancient to Modern
Place: Carole Davenport @ John Molloy Gallery - New York, 49 East 78th Street, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: Opening Receptions: Thursday, March 13 & Friday, March 14, 2025 from 5-7pm (both evenings)
Exhibiting at: John Molloy Gallery, 49 East 78 Street, Suite 2B
Asia Week Hours: Mar 13-14, 2-7pm & 15-21, 11am-5pm (otherwise by appointment)

We are pleased to return to Asia Week New York after a brief hiatus with What’s in a Title: Japanese Works of Art from Ancient to Modern, an exhibition that includes “Yamanba,” an early Edo sculpture by Deme Yuka, a dynamic representation by the well-known carver, bearing his seal on the reverse.

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New Sun and Silver: Early Photographs of China by Lai Afong and John Thomson
Place: Loewentheil Photography of China Collection - New York, 10 West 18th Street, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: March 13–15 & 18–21, 2025
Opening reception: Tuesday, March 16, 6-8pm
Exhibiting at: 10 West 18th Street, 7th Floor
Asia Week hours: 10am-5pm (by appointment only)

We are thrilled to present Sun and Silver: Early Photographs of China by Lai Afong and John Thomson, which brings together masterpieces by two giants of 19th-century photography of China—Lai Afong and John Thomson—who originated many significant developments in early Chinese photography. Among the photographs is Rapids at Nanping, River Min, which first captured the imagination of Lai Afong in 1869 and later by John Thomson in 1870.

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New Light and Abundance: Gold in Japanese Art
Place: Ippodo Gallery - New York, 35 N Moore Street, USA
Date: Mar 13, 2025 to Apr 17, 2025
Detail: The pure material, never to tarnish nor rust, is the object of fascination and admiration for more than a thousand years in Japan. Gold represents divinity, the eternal, and symbolizes spiritual enlightenment since ancient times, serving to cover statues of Buddha, temples like Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, and the feudal lord Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s famous Gold Tea Room. Under shadows the gold leaf adorned folding byobu screen thrives; “in the darkness, where sunlight never penetrates, gold leaf will pick up a distant glimmer, then suddenly send forth an ethereal glow, a faint golden light like the horizon at sunset” (Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows). ‘Zipangu, the Land of Gold’ as Marco Polo named the archipelago more than five-hundred years ago, reminds how the country was once the foremost global producer of gold, which empowered the development of a distinct Japanese visual culture. While modern minimalist and wabisabi philosophies rise, flamboyance remains a quintessential element of Japanese aesthetics. Ippodo Gallery presents twenty-four top emerging Japanese artists in contemporary kogei for whom gold persists as a medium of innovation and virtue.

Rising star lacquer artist Terumasa Ikeda leads the tradition of raden inlay with mother-of-pearl and gold leaf towards the timeless. Each bejeweled box, tea caddy, and incense container is the thinnest Kiso hinoki wood enveloped in layers of brushed lacquer. The final hand-laid gold and mother-of-pearl sparkle with iridescence in patterns evocative of electronics and the extraterrestrial.

Noriyuki Furutani elevates the tea bowl to its most formal form as the works from his kiln singularly focus the tenmoku—perfectly rounded walls of equal height slanted outward, culminating in a sublime shaped lip. Golden glaze, his latest advancement, realizes the beauty of the play between light and ceramic. Hirotomi Maeda crafts by hand meticulous metalworks that incorporate ancient hand-beaten methods for molding sheets of pure gold and silver into forms of exceptional intricacy and function. The precious metals are inlaid with patterns in scintillating Japanese shibuichi alloy of gold, silver, and copper.

Painter Kaori Someya nurtures the deep and rich hues of mineral pigments with the nobility of gold; the rusticity of the powdered earth-based mediums made from precious ore, animal shells, and sumi charcoal set off the subtle details of her gilded figures. The light dances as it strikes the gold, textured washi paper, and voluptuous paints, giving animated life to the woman and kimono; this is her debut showcase at Ippodo Gallery.

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New 250 Years of Japanese Woodblock Prints
Place: The Art of Japan at The Mark Hotel - New York, 25 East 77th Street, USA
Date: Mar 14, 2025 to Mar 16, 2025
Detail: This year, Under the auspices of the Year of the Snake, The Art of Japan will exhibit our selections at the Mark Hotel Friday March 14 – Sunday March 16. Come visit us and see recent acquisitions including, but not limited to: a unique impression of Hiroaki’s Awabi Diver in very fine condition; a complete set of Hiroshi Yoshida’s “Sailboat” showing six different phases of the day; several important Utamaro okubi-e portraits; Kuniyoshi’s masterpiece “Yoshitsune’s Ship Attacked by Taira Ghosts at Daimatsu Bay”, several works from Hokusai’s 36 views of Fuji, and other figurative, genre, and landscape masterpieces from the 18th – 20th C.

Exhibiting at: The Mark Hotel, 25 East 77th Street, Meeting Room 215
Asia Week hours: 10am-6pm (otherwise by appointment)

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New Japanese Prints and Paintings, 1720−1820
Place: Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art - New York, 17 East 76th Street, 3rd Floor, USA
Date: Mar 14, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: We are pleased to present Japanese Prints and Paintings, 1720−1820 during Asia Week New York. The paintings and prints in this exhibition begin in the 1720s and end approximately a century later. Many of the technical developments and changes that took place during that time are covered. The most important of these, the introduction of full color printing, is represented by a fine group prints by Suzuki Harunobu, as well as examples by his contemporaries. Harunobu was a late bloomer, and the prints included here survey the last years of his life, beginning with the first print in his ground-breaking series Zashiki hakkei (Eight views of the parlor room).

The end of the 1760s saw idealized portraits of actors replaced by ones more grounded in realistic portrayal, which are represented here by fine works by Ippitsusai Bunchō and Katsukawa Shunshō. The dainty, almost doll-like figures of Harunobu, were also replaced by robust women of Kitao Shigemasa and Isoda Kōryūsai. The transition away from the dominance of Harunobu to the burgeoning influence of Shigemasa, is represented by an important painting by Shiba Kōkan of a young woman in a pastoral setting.

Interest in imported European ideas and images manifested itself in the introduction of uki-e, or “floating pictures,” which allowed landscape artists to move from traditional isometric perspective to indicate depth and volume, to single-point perspective and low picture planes. Examples by Utagawa Toyoharu and other landscapes in the exhibition indicate just how pervasive this interest was.

The golden era of the 1790s includes a very fine example of Tōshūsai Sharaku’s portrait of Segawa Kikunojō III as Ōshizu, performed in the fifth month of 1794. One of the artist’s finest portraits, this specimen has exceptionally well-preserved color, allowing the viewer insights into Sharaku’s skills as a colorist. The portrait is also complemented by four fine prints by Kitagawa Utamaro, in addition to a rare full-length portrait by Sharaku, and others by Katsukawa Shun’ei, Utagawa Toyokuni, and his student Utagawa Kunimasa.

The exhibition concludes with a fine painting by Kubo Shunman, who was a contemporary of both Utamaro and Toyokuni. Shunman was deeply involved with the literary world of his period, and his late painting of a Yoshiwara courtesan celebrating the Hassaku festival held during the summer is accompanied by a text by the noted literatus Kameda Bōsai, detailing the history of the event.

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New Mingei Modern
Place: Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. - New York, 18 East 64th Street, USA
Date: Mar 14, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025
Detail: The Japanese term Mingei, coined over a century ago, is a direct translation of “crafts for ordinary people” (minshuteki kogei). Mingei was adopted by philosopher and potter Yanagi Sōetsu to define a now-revered folk-craft movement in Japan that celebrated the beauty of anonymous, utilitarian craftsmanship. The movement values simplicity, humility, and natural grace, challenging the Western focus on individual authorship and historical narrative.

Despite the Mingei Movement's emphasis on anonymity, its movement has paradoxically elevated figures such as Yanagi Sōetsu, Bernard Leach, Kawai Kanjirō, and Hamada Shōji as its key proponents. This exhibition examines the tension between Mingei's ideals and its legacy, inviting viewers to closely examine how the ceramic objects of the Mingei Movement embody its philosophy and why their forms remain profoundly beautiful today.

Dai Ichi Arts is delighted to present a curated selection of significant ceramic, textile, and painted works by the pioneers of the Mingei Movement in 20th century Japan on the occasion of Asia Week New York. Exhibited artists include Kawai Kanjiro, Hamada Shoji, Bernard Leach, Shimaoka Tatsuzo, Murata Gen, Munakata Shiko, Serizawa Keisuke, and others.

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New Japanese and Korean Art
Place: Christie's - New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, USA
Date: Mar 18, 2025
Detail: This season’s Japanese and Korean Art sale is led by a magnificent Moon Jar, Katsushika Hokusai’s masterpiece Great Wave and an important Heian period Dainichi Nyorai sculpture. The auction also features a fine selection of Goryeo dyansty celadon from the David and Nayda Collection, examples of rare Joseon period porcelains, a beautiful painting by Ito Jakuchu and a curated selection of lacquer works, metalworks, modern and contemporary art, sculptures, ceramics and much more. Discover the auction in person at our New York galleries from 14 to 17 March.

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New Chinese Art
Place: Christie's - New York, 1334 York Avenue, USA
Date: Mar 18, 2025
Detail: Live Auction: 18 March 2025
09:00 EDT

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New South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art
Place: Christie's - New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, USA
Date: Mar 19, 2025
Detail: This season, Christie’s live auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art will be held on 19 March during Asian Art Week in New York. The sale celebrates the evolution and diversity of the arts of South Asia and its diaspora by showcasing seminal works by the most iconic South Asian artists practicing in the 20th and 21st centuries. The live auction is complemented by our South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Online auction, running from 12 to 25 March.

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New Indian and Himalayan Art
Place: Sotheby's - New York, 1334 York Avenue, USA
Date: Mar 20, 2025
Detail: The Indian and Himalayan Art auction is led by a magnificent large Central Tibetan 14th century gilt-copper alloy figure of Shakyamuni Buddha from a distinguished Dutch private collection, and includes several private collections of Indian and Himalayan paintings, sculpture and ritual objects.

The auction opens with an important New York private collection of classical Indian paintings, many of which were acquired directly from the Ehrenfeld collection. Highlights include two folios from the Tehri Garhwal series of the Gita Govinda and an Imperial Mughal painting of mythical birds. The sale follows with twelve superb works of art from the collection of the financier and scholar Kevin R. Brine, including an important portrait of Thangpa Chenpo, commissioned for Taklung Monastery circa 1180-1210, and and a rare large 17th century silver figure of the Fifth Shamarpa Lama.

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New Asian Works of Art
Place: Freeman's | Hindman - New York, 32 East 67th Street, USA
Date: Mar 21, 2025
Detail: 10:00AM ET
Sale 2046

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New Asian Art Signature Auction
Place: Heritage Auctions - New York, 445 Park Avenue, USA
Date: Mar 21, 2025
Detail: Lot Viewing: HIGHLIGHTS ONLY

March 13-15, 2025
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM ET

March 17-20, 2025
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM ET

Auction Location
Heritage Auctions
2801 W. Airport Freeway
Dallas, TX 75261

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New Glazed Realities: A Journey in Clay
Place: Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery - Stony Brook, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Road, New York, USA
Date: Mar 07, 2025
Detail: By Sunkoo Yuh
Friday, March 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Theatre

Explore the transformative artistry of Sunkoo Yuh, a celebrated ceramicist and professor of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens, whose works are exhibited in esteemed institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Best known for his intricate groupings of forms—plants, animals, fish, and human figures—Yuh’s sculptures are reflections of “stacked histories,” drawing deeply from personal experiences, cultural background, and daily encounters.

In this lecture, Yuh offers a rare glimpse into his creative journey, exploring the inspirations, relationships, and concerns that shape his art. He will discuss his symbolic language, his vibrant and innovative use of high-temperature glazes, and his distinctive approach to crafting three-dimensional narrative sculptures that weave themes of identity, spirituality, and the human experience. The lecture concludes with the opening reception of Yuh’s solo exhibition, providing an opportunity to engage further with his transformative work.

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