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This 12 months’s fifteenth anniversary, Year of the Dragon version of Asia Week, opening March 14, is a form of mini-fair by which out-of-town Asian artwork galleries converge on New York, public sale homes gavel in Asian antiquities and native galleries and museums mount particular exhibits. It is an thrilling event for aficionados of Japanese cat demons (Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints) and Vietnamese celadon (Zetterquist Galleries), but it surely’s additionally an awesome alternative for aesthetes steeped primarily in Western artwork to broaden their horizons. (Please be aware that whereas some displays go on into the spring, others final solely the week. Check the web site earlier than visiting.)
In its twentieth anniversary 12 months — and final Asia Week earlier than its scheduled shut this fall — the Rubin Museum has requested 30 up to date artists to dive into the Himalayan custom with the exhibition “Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now.” The Korea Society has iridescent mother-of-pearl inlays by Jian Yoo, the Korean Cultural Center New York has a retrospective of John Pai, who labored on the intersection of textiles and arithmetic and the Japan Society has an invigorating roundup of Zen portray. And there’s no time like the current to go to the Brooklyn Museum’s “Porcelains within the Mist: The Kondo Family of Ceramicists,” which focuses on a proprietary glazing approach that makes use of silver droplets.
Asia Week New York
March 14-22, varied areas, asiaweekny.com
