Asian Art

Here's a photo I never expected to see—Asian schoolgirls marching down the street in Nazi uniforms: Questions are growing in Thailand about how school students in Chiang Mai were able to adopt a Nazi theme for their school sports-day on Friday, wearing outfits modeled on those of SS guards and waving huge swastika banners. Which reminds me of this photo an artist-friend sent me when he was living in India. Bombay shopkeeper, 2007. "I dunno...  

Yosa Buson (1716–1784), Herb Gatherers in the Mountains, Hanging scroll: ink and light color on silk satin. Edo period, ca. 1780, 53⅜ x 24⅜ in. (135.5 x 62 cm). Signed: Shashunsei sha Shikōan ni oite, sealed Shachōkō and Shashunsei. Courtesy Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art.  

BRETT ZONGKER Associated Press WASHINGTON New York philanthropist Dame Jillian Sackler is donating $5 million to the Smithsonian's Asian art museum that bears her late husband's name. The gift announced Tuesday to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery creates an endowment to support the director's position at the Sackler and Freer galleries of art. The gift marks the museum's 25th anniversary. The ...  

An installation from dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will be featured in a special exhibition this year at the Sackler Gallery of Art, the museum announced Tuesday. “Fragments,” a work in iron wood and pillars from the dismantled temples of the Qing Dynasty, will be installed in a section of the national Asian art museum dedicated to contemporary work. Ai’s installation will open May 12 for ...  

The highest price rewarded an 18th century cabinet formed by four carved zitan panels of dragons. PARIS.- Sotheby's final sale of 2011 in Paris, devoted to Asian Art, totalled €12.45 million against an overall pre-sale estimate of €6.5-9m.  

Larasati and Borobudur, rivals in the Southeast Asian art auction scene, are holding their first joint sale in Singapore next month. Timed to coincide with top contemporary art fair Art Stage here, t .....  

WASHINGTON (AP) - New York philanthropist Dame Jillian Sackler is donating $5 million to the Smithsonian's Asian art museum that bears her late husband's name.