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. You may buy this book here 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 (遺老), established modern...
Saatchi's 100 Curators 100 Days
Saatchi Online launched 18 July 2012 a new initiative called 100 CURATORS 100 DAYS, recognizing 1,000 artists for their outstanding work. Beginning Wednesday, July 18 2012, every day for 100 days Saatchi Online will reveal one curator’s selection of ten artists to be included in “the largest exhibit of its kind.” The curators have made their selections from more than 60,000 artists that are currently exhibited on Saatchi...
Rachid Koraïchi wins the 2011 Jameel Prize
Algeria-born Rachid Koraïchi has won the GBP 25,000 Jameel Prize for a selection of embroidered cloth banners from a series entitled Les Maitres invisibles (The Invisible Masters), 2008, writes SAJID RIZVI. Martin Roth, Director of the V&A, Hasan Jameel and Ed Vaizey MP, presented Rachid Koraïchi with the prize at a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 12 September 2011. The V&A’s Jameel Prize 2011 exhibition...