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Buddhist art at Sotheby's NY
Aug29

Buddhist art at Sotheby's NY

Sotheby’s New York will present a selling exhibition, Footsteps of the Buddha: Masterworks from Across the Buddhist World, 3-23 September 2013. Aimed at collectors and connoisseurs, the selling exhibition traces the historical development and transformation of Buddhist art from the second century through the 21st. The show features pan-Asian Buddhist paintings and sculptures from the ancient regions of Gandhara, Nepal, Tibet, Korea,...

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Surrealism and South Asian art
Aug06

Surrealism and South Asian art

Prahlad Bubbar’s upcoming selling exhibition of selections from private collections explores the theme of surrealism in South Asian and Himalayan art, painting in particular. The Surreal in Indian Painting: Select Works from the Arturo Schwarz and other Private Collections (4 October to 15 November 2013) presents 24 paintings dated between the 17th and the 19th centuries. Surrealism in the West is generally credited to André...

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THE CONCEPT OF DANZŌ: ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries
Jul01

THE CONCEPT OF DANZŌ: ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries

THE CONCEPT OF DANZŌ: ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries, by Christian Boehm, is a new title in Saffron Asian Art and Society Series. Buy this book. Download press release This lavishly illustrated volume is the first study in a Western language to examine Buddhist sculptures known as danzō (sandalwood images) and dangan (portable sandalwood shrines) in Japan from the 8th to 14th centuries,...

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An Eternal Cycle: Paradise and Purgatory at Mokspace
Oct14

An Eternal Cycle: Paradise and Purgatory at Mokspace

An Eternal Cycle: Paradise and Purgatory at London’s Mokspace features the work of Korean artists Park Seo Young and Lyoo Song Nyeo who paint in the style of devotional paintings still found in the Buddhist temples of Korea and other countries, writes SAJID RIZVI. The exhibition (14 October-10 November 2011) refers to an almost universal notion that death remains, for most part, a mystery to all living beings before they meet...

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Robert Beer: Brush Strokes of Freedom
Jun01

Robert Beer: Brush Strokes of Freedom

Pursuit of art in the Tibetan tradition has been the occupation of a lifetime for the British painter Robert Beer, writes Sajid Rizvi. In this conversation first published in 1991, Robert Beer spoke to Sajid Rizvi, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Eastern Art Report, about his work and experiences. (Reproduced from Eastern Art Report print edition Vol III No. 1). Edited excerpts: Sajid Rizvi. You’ve been painting for more than...

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