Art Museums Asian

"A visit to one of the many new art museums that have sprouted in China over the last two decades offers a window into some of the incredible changes in China's art and design scene. At a rapid pace, countless, often spectacular new private museums have been established from the wealth of Chinese and other Asian private collectors; major international art exhibitions are now regularly shown in partnership with renowned institutions around the world, such as the Tate and Centre Pompidou; and a mass art public has suddenly come into being in this short time. This scene offers a vastly different, and in many ways unprecedented, set of conditions for encountering art, museums and their publics in China that encompasses a hugely expanded art museum context in China, the generation of new local and global publics for China's contemporary urban art and design cultures, and a fundamentally changed relationship between China and the global art world." Excerpt from Michelle Antoinette, 'Culture Boom: China's Artscape Now, and the Making of a New Art Public’, pp.152-53

A general presentation of the Japanese art collection preserved in the Museo d’Arte Orientale, encompassing a chronological span of one thousand years from the 11th century to the mid-20th century. The collection consists of about 625 objects, the most ancient ones being Buddhist wooden sculptures and the most numerous being printed materials, paintings, lacquers, and textiles of the Edo period. The article also describes the Japanese gallery display and focuses on some of the most important and rare artworks in the collection.