Center for the Arts Asian Arts Gallery, Towson University September 14 – December 8, 2012 Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Thursday, September 13, 7 – 9 p.m. Noted Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, deeply immersed in the traditions and history of Korea, reveals his intense involvement with both Western art and the rich heritage of his homeland. Chun began his series of Aggregations in the 1990s. Today, he is recognized internationally for these sculptural and wall-relief forms. The fundamental elements of his work are individual, triangular Styrofoam forms wrapped in Korean mulberry paper, hand-tied with mulberry paper twisted into string, and assembles into large-scale works. The whole is an aggregate of its many parts. The paper is recycled from books, many being more than on ...

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These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the second century B.C. and the eighth century A.D. More than one hundred sixty works from the permanent collection are juxtaposed to trace the range of stylistic and iconographic developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during a period that witnessed great ideological ferment and international exchange. The recently published volume The Art of Gandhara in The Metropolitan Museum of Art addresses much of this early production. When: Ongoing Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for the Arts of South and Southeast Asia, 2nd floor, NY For more info click here.

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This installation features a selection of one hundred examples of important boxes, caskets, and small chests from the Museum’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. For centuries, boxes, caskets, cabinets, and chests played an important role in everyday life. Ranging from strongboxes to travel cases and from containers for tea or tobacco to those for the storage of toiletries or silverware, these lidded pieces were made in a large variety of shapes and sizes, and of many different materials. The form and decoration of these objects not only reflect changes in social customs and manners but also follow the stylistic developments in Europe over four hundred years. Pieces made of tortoiseshell, carved and veneered wood, porcelain, hard stones and natural substances, embr ...

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This year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, the annual fair of contemporary art in the US, hosts an unprecedented number of exhibitions centered around the work of world-renowned and emerging French artists. The fair will run from December 6 to December 9, 2011. Click here to view the 2011 program. When: December 6 – 9, 2011 Where: Miami Beach, Florida. For more info click here.

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Since 2003. An extraordinary showcase of the best of art galleries from various countries in Latin America and the show is so well arranged that it seems as if one has walked into a museum. Arteaméricas is the premier fair of art from Latin America. It will showcase the latest trends in paintings, sculpture and multimedia. Galleries from all over Latin America will be participating, representing hundreds of emerging artists and renowned masters. The fair takes place in Miami Beach, drawing a diverse and upscale audience to enjoy high- quality art within an intimate setting. Arteaméricas is not only the Latin American art fair, but also the art fair of the Americas. When: March 2 – 5, 2012 Time: Fri-Sat. 12pm-9pm, Sun. 12pm-7pm, Mon. 12pm-5pm Where: Miami Beach Convention Center 1901 ...

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This display of human-form sculptures in the Museum’s Fireside Gallery features approximately fourteen works by Naum Mogilevsky. The sculptures were recently added to the Museum’s growing permanent collection through a generous gift from the artist’s nephew, Boris Mogilevsky. Sculptor Naum Mogilevsky (1895-1975) was a prominent member of the celebrated 1920s avant-garde artist group in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) known as the Krug Khudozhnikov (Circle of Artists). A close friend of the famous avant-gardist Vladimir Tatlin and a pupil of the outstanding sculptor Alexander Matveev, Mogilevsky created works of lasting beauty that did not conform to the parameters of state-endorsed Socialist Realism. Mogilevsky’s preferred medium was wood, and later in his career, stone. The objects included in ...

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Showcasing the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design associated with both Japan and Art Deco style, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to explore a little-known brand of pre-WWII modernism borne of competitive ingenuity and vivacious cosmopolitanism. Curated by Dr. Kendall Brown, Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920–1945 subtly conveys the complex social and cultural tensions in Japan during the Taisho and early Showa periods through dramatically designed examples of metalwork, ceramics, lacquer, glass, furniture, jewelry, sculpture and evocative ephemera such as sheet music, posters, postcards, prints and photography. The vitality of the era is further expressed through the theme of the moga(“modern girl”)–an emblem of contemporary urban chic that ...

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The Indo-American Arts Council’s 9th Annual Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora features work by 41 artists who confront issues like sexuality, terror, disease, the environment and racial politics through various artistic mediums like paintings, prints, installations, video and sculpture. This eclectic mix of artists is chosen by curator Vijay Kumar and is free and open to the public. The resulting works often meld Indian and Western ideas about color, form and subject. The opening reception will take place at Crossing Art Queens on March 17 from 3pm to 6pm. When: 17th March – 20th April, 2012 Where: Crossing Art Queens, 136-17 39th Avenue (at Main Street) Ground Floor Flushing, NY 11354 PLEASE RSVP: tanu.iaac@gmail.com For more info click here. &nb ...

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The general public is invited to tour the Asia Society Texas Center’s new building on Saturday, April 14 and Sunday, April 15 when the Center hosts a free Open House and First Look Festival. Food, performances, and kids’ activities will be part of the fun along with tours of the Center, which features the 273-seat Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, 4,000-square-foot Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery, 3,000-square-foot Edward Rudge Allen III Education Center, and Fayez Sarofim Grand Hall. The festival marks the opening of Treasures of Asian Art: A Rockefeller Legacy, a not-to-be-missed exhibition of over 60 masterpieces from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Collection housed at the Asia Society Museum in New York. The exhibition continues through September 16. In the Sculp ...

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Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts, Towson University February 7 – March 16, 2013 Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Thursday, February 7, 7-9 p.m. Dynamic and dangerous, Colette Fu’s pop-up books are anything but child-like. These shifting, stretching collages mark her professional maturation from an amateur photographer to a skilled artist. Through the combination of photography and pop-up paper engineering, Fu creates one-of-a-kind collapsible artist books that reflect ideas on how our selves relate to society today. In 2008, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to photograph the 25 ethnic minorities of her mother’s hometown of Yunnan Province, China. She has turned many of these photographs into a series of pop-up books that eliminate the boundaries between book, insta ...

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