Asia Week

With exhibitions at over 10 galleries, a collaborative exhibition held by the five members of the Japanese Art Dealers Association, auctions at two houses, the opening of Japan Society’s Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945, and the sold-out symposium at the Frick Collection’s Center for the History of Collecting, The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America, Japanese art has once again had a strong presence in Asia Week.    ...

Chinese ceramics take center stage at the afternoon session of Gianguan Auctions' Asia Week sale on Sunday, March 18. Highlighting the proceedings is a seldom-seen Yuan Dynasty octagonal blue and white Meipng portraying six legendary Chinese figures. According to Kwong Lum, proprietor of Gianguan Auctions, the Meiping represents the exceptional artistic attainmnet of Yuan Dynasty porcelain making. Its workmanship is comparable to that of an octagonal blue-and-white Meiping with a ...

Gianguan Auctions, New York's premier resident Asian art auction house, is pleased to announce that its Asia Week Sale on Sunday, March 18, will open with a morning session of eighty-six Chinese paintings. Included are four by Zhang Daqian and six by Qi Baishi.  Previews begin on Saturday, March 10 and continue through Saturday, March 17. Both Zhang Daqian (1899 - 1983) and Qi Baishi (1864 -1957) made headlines in 2011 for breaking the auction records of Pablo Picasso and Andy ...

The destination website AsiaWeekNYC.com, which bills itself as a “guide to all the auctions, shows and campaigns of Asia Week,” announces a donation-in-kind to the New York Chinese Scholars Garden at Staten Island’s Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden. The donation is the second provided by AsiaWeekNYC.com's parent company, Antiques Weeks Media, LLC. “It is our policy to identify and feature a non-profit organization that fits into the theme of each named antiques ...

As art from Asia gains in popularity and visitors plan their trips to Asia Week in New York, they are making a stop at AsiaWeekNYC.com first. The co-founders of Antiques Weeks Media, LLC indicate initial success with AsiaWeekNYC.com, the independent destination website that tracks the run-up to and the events of Asia Week, March 16 - 24. "The first Internet reports indicate that the site is building at a rate equivalent to AmericanaWeek.com," said Eric Miller, co-founder of Antiques Weeks ...

With more than a hundred galleries mounting special Asian art exhibits loosely tethered to the international Asian art auctions that dominate the New York art scene every March, there has never been a single comprehensive guide for collectors and art lovers. The new Asian Arts Week campaign changes that with a website and print guide to the auctions, dealers and activities of March 18-27. According to the campaign's director, Regina Kolbe, art writer and president of PR To the Trade, a ...

 Two newly discovered paintings by Katsushika Hokusai, creator of The Great Wave off Kanagawa, and dozens of other rare and exceptional works of art will be exhibited in JADA 2011: An Exhibition by the Japanese Art Dealers Association.  The exhibition will run from March 19 – March 23, 2011 at the Ukrainian Institute of America at 2 E. 79th St. in New York City.  JADA 2011 is the association’s third joint Asia Week exhibition and presents the traditional fine arts of Japan.  “Asia Week in ...