- Size: 28.6 (L) x 21.1 (W) cm
- Binding: Softcover, 110 pages
- Language: English
- Publisher: Orientations Magazine Limited, 2025
The new Princeton University Art Museum, with 117,000 objects from cultures around the world covering five thousand years of history, will open on 31 October. The three-story building has entrances on all sides and is arranged in nine interlocked pavilions that embody openness and connectivity. The Asian pavilion on the second floor welcomes visitors with a Southern Song dynasty Chinese wooden statue of Guanyin. We are pleased to work with Zoe Song-Yi Kwok, the Nancy and Peter Lee Curator of Asian Art, on this special issue celebrating the museum’s reopening.
‘Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900’, curated by Pengliang Lu, the Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is on view there until 28 September before travelling to the Shanghai Museum. Chinese bronzes from the 12th to 19th centuries are a significant but overlooked category, and thus the exhibition brings forth new research and perspectives.
Finally, ‘Sōgen butsuga’, on view at the Kyoto National Museum from 20 September to 16 November, highlights the genres, painters, characteristics, and cultural history of Song and Yuan dynasty Buddhist paintings in Japan as well other paintings of East Asia during that period. We look at how tea-drinking practices in the Qing dynasty court were used by the Manchu rulers to govern the Han Chinese and to portray the emperors in a positive light.