AsiaChinese Antiques Collection, Princeton University Art...
Robert Alexander Boyle 19/04/2017Chinese, Tang Dynasty 618-907, Tomb figure (detail)
One of the few steady bright spots in the art and antiques field these days is the Chinese market, and the best way for a dealer to learn good-better-best is to go to art museums. Princeton is one of...[Read More]0 Comments
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Asia6 Examples of How Portraits of Women Were Manipulated...
The Epoch Times 08/03/2017
Christine Lin @ Epoch Times
Throughout history, portrayals of women have been used to further political, social, and commercial ends. In the Renaissance, women’s faces, bodies, and dress were carefully designed, sometimes fictionalized, to suit...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaPax Americana Returns?
AAD REPORTS 07/02/2017Op-Ed: President Trump's major Asian breakthrough
Rival power designs about throwing Uncle Sam out of Asia just got more difficult – or well-nigh impossible. And that crowd sloshing in the snow of ridiculously expensive Alpine resorts will have...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAncient Chinese Secret
AAD REPORTS 07/11/2016The ancient walls of a lost city in southern China have been uncovered in a remarkable find by archaeologists. The northern section of the city was found at the Sansingdui archaeological site located in Sichuan province. It dates back than...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaDecorated Scientist Claims That The Founders of...
AAD REPORTS 09/10/2016On a cool Sunday evening in March, a geochemist named Sun Weidong gave a public lecture to an audience of laymen, students, and professors at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, the capital city of the landlocked province of Anhui in...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaChina and Tibet
AAD REPORTS 24/09/2016
Perspective Map of Lhasa; Lhasa, Tibet; early 20th century (pre-1912); ink, watercolor, and gold leaf on rice paper; Collection of Knud Larsen; L179.4.1
Architectural landmarks act as anchors for the identity of a place as well as focal points for...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaLegends Say China Began in a Great Flood
AAD REPORTS 04/08/2016
Legends say China began in a great flood. Scientists just found evidence that the flood was real.
"Yu the Great Fights a Flood Dragon" (Totoya Hokkei/William Sturgis Bigelow Collection)
It's said the flood looked like "endless boiling...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaSecrets of lost Cambodian cities to be revealed:...
AAD REPORTS 12/06/2016Secrets of Lost Cambodian Cities To Be Revealed
Archaeologists are set to unveil further details of medieval cities hidden under jungle in Cambodia near Angkor Wat, the world's largest Hindu temple complex, the Guardian newspaper said...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaChinese archaeologists may have stumbled onto the...
AAD REPORTS 10/06/2016Chinese Archaeologists May Have Stumbled Onto The Fabled 'Greatest Palace That Ever Was'
For centuries the imperial palace of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty was shrouded in mystery. After the dynasty collapsed, there were no clues as to where it was...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaBehold the Haunting Decay of Gunkanjima, Japan's...
AAD REPORTS 04/06/2016Battleship Island. It's a fantastic name for an unbelievable place. A place unlike any in the world. A tiny island, once home to 5,259 people with the highest population density in history, abruptly abandoned and left to the elements for decades.
The...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaThe Indus Valley civilisation is 2,500 years older...
AAD REPORTS 03/06/2016The Indus Valley civilisation may be even older than initially thought.
A group of researchers in India have used carbon dating techniques on animal remains and pottery fragments to conclude that the Indus Valley settlements could be 8,000 years...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAsia Week NYC, Full of Surprises
AAD REPORTS 24/03/2016ASIA WEEK NYC, FULL OF SURPRISES
Fresh on the heels of Art Asia Week (which is really 10 days) in NY, the questions started coming…how did the slowdown in China and other Asian countries affect the market for Asian Objects in New York?...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaPeabody Essex Exhibition: Asia in Amsterdam: The...
Robert Alexander Boyle 04/03/2016
1. Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde. The ”Golden Bend” in the Herengracht, Amsterdam, 1671-1672. Oil on panel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Purchased upon the recommendation of the Vereniging Rembrandt with the support of the Stichting Nationaal...[Read More]0 Comments
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Asia‘Time Waterfall’ to be unveiled at ICC Hong Kong...
AAD REPORTS 04/02/2016Internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima will present a new large-scale public light installation during Art Basel’s show in Hong Kong in March. Each night from March 21 to 26 ‘Time Waterfall’ will be shown across the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaFrisky At Asia Now
Maura Haverly 21/10/2015Billing itself as “the first human sized fair in France and Europe for contemporary Asian Art“, Asia Now opened at the Espace Pierre Cardin on 19 October. Twenty-one galleries from 10 countries on two floors , the timing couldn’t be...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaThe MET’s Chinese Fashion Exhibit
The Epoch Times 25/05/2015
Christine Lin @ The Epoch Times
The MET’s Chinese Fashion Exhibit Neglects 94 Percent of Chinese Fashion
The Metropolitan Museum’s new gargantuan fashion exhibit, China: Through the Looking Glass, has its fair share of...[Read More]0 Comments
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AntiquesIvory : Facts vs. Emotion
Clinton Howell 04/05/2014There are a number of false claims about ivory that are currently circulating in the news. The biggest false claim is that New York is the second largest ivory market in the world. I don’t know where or how this fact was established, but anyone...[Read More]0 Comments
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