Orient Museum Namban Art Exhibition
Orient Museum In Lisbon Hosts Inaugural Exhibition On Namban Art The Orient Museum in Lisbon has launched an inaugural exhibition on ‘Namban art’, a rare collection of over 60 pieces of ‘Namban’ furniture, textiles, arms and paintings. The Portuguese were the first Europeans in Japan and ‘Namban art’ is any artistic expression from Japan and China in the 16th and 17th centuries that resulted from...
India For A Billion Reasons
This is a glorious photographic essay focusing on India, land of a billion people, a nation for a billion reasons. India continues to mesmerise and surprise the rest of the world as much as she enchants and bewilders her own people. An ancient civilisation and a young nation at once, modern India is a thriving democracy, an economic powerhouse, an increasingly assertive global political player and a world leader in science and...
Contemporary Grand Tour
They belong to different generations, so much so that they could be father and son. Two Britons have set up an exhibition in Rome under the same roof, in the context of a spate of autumn-winter events at Macro. CONTEMPORARY GRAND TOUR Roma, Macro The body, this unknown. In his research spanning a period of 30 years Antony Gormley (London 1950) has never stopped looking into the relationship between the human body and the surrounding...