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At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the biggest attraction in the China Pavilion was a giant digitally animated reproduction of Qing Ming Shang He Tu, a well-loved and revered painting from the Song Dynasty. A Moving Masterpiece: The Song Dynasty As Living Art will be making its debut outside Greater China and show at Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre from Dec 7, 2011 to Feb 6, 2012

Bohnams will auction the Sartin Collection of Asian Art and Fine Japanese Works of Art in New York on Sep 13.

A Very Rare Large Finely Cast Gilt-Bronze Figure of Vairocana Ming dynasty, 16th Century

On September 15 and 16, Christie's New York will present Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, a sale expected to realize in the region of $19 million. Headlining the sale is a very rare large and finely cast gilt-bronze figure of Vairocana (estimate: $600,000-800,000), which is an exceptional example of its type, exhibiting superb casting and fine attention to detail.

A large gilt bronze figure of Buddha Nepal, 14th Century

The afternoon of September 13 will be devoted to the classical works of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at Christie's NY auction. Several notable collections will be featured in the sale, including The Burkhart Collection, as well as Property from the Dr. David Nalin Collection, which has a large focus on stone and stucco sculpture from the Gandharan region.

My Oasis © 2009-11. Sandrine Llouquet. Images courtesy of Give Art.

Give Art will host French-Vietnamese artist, Sandrine Llouquet’s first solo exhibition in Singapore, opening on August 31. Llouquet creates modest, delicate drawings and site-specific installations that juxtapose playfulness with the more visceral and violent.

Hendra Gunawan - Tuak Manis

Art lovers in Singapore will get an opportunity to catch a small preview of Sotheby's Hong Kong Autum Sales on Sep 3-4 at The Regent hotel. Chosen works from these categories will be on display:

modern and contemporary Southeast asian paintings, 20th century Chinese art, contemporary Asian art, jewellery and watches.

A Very Rare Large White Jade Archaistic Vase and Cover Qianlong/Jiaqing period (1736–1820)

Christie's NY will auction a collection of superb jade carvings by a European collector on Sep 15.
Leading the sale is a very rare white jade archaistic vase and cover, Qianlong/Jiaqing period (1736-1820). The vase is carved from fine stone of even white tone and exhibits an unusual shape, as well as a bold combination of low and high relief carving.

The Battles of Yashima and Ichinotani from The Tale of Heike

Christies will present its Fall Sale of Japanese and Korean Art on Sep 14. The Japanese section of the sale will feature Inro from the Collection from the Estate Catherine H. Edson, paintings, lacquer wares, and furniture, while the Korean portion includes fine porcelains, as well as traditional and modern paintings by Korean masters. The sale is expected to realize in excess of $9 million.

EMPEROR QIANLONG’S CHUNHUA GE TIE RUBBING Set of two boxes, five albums each Ink on paper

Christie’s announced the single-owner sale of A Connoisseur’s Vision: Property from the Xu Hanqing Collection, which will be offered on September 15. This elite group of 150 objects includes rare and important examples of ancient Chinese paintings, rare calligraphy, lustrous jades, an assortment of luxurious seals and other sophisticated scholar’s objects that are expected to realize in the region of $7 million.

Every hours, three people around the world are killed or injured by landmines. One Canadian artist, Blake, is trying to remind us through his sculptures, what the world seems to have forgotten. 'Fragments' is now showing at Collectors Contemporary gallery in Singapore until Sep 8.

Unique Inking Chronograph 1825 (open view)

"Writing Time" is a travelling exhibition organized by the prestigious Musée international d’horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, with the support of Montblanc. It is set to take place at Montblanc flagship boutique at Mandarin Gallery from October 6 – 9.

'Titanic: The Artifacts Exhibition' featuring original artifacts from the world's most famous shipwreck will be showing at the ArtScience Museum of MBS from Oct 29.

Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011), Sprinkling Horses

Christie's New York has announced the details of its sales for Asian Art Week from September 13-16. The six sales will span a spectrum of collecting categories – from classical Japanese and Korean art, to works from South Asian modern masters and cutting-edge contemporary works, as well as Chinese paintings, ceramics and works of art. The sales features over 1,300 lots and are expected to realize in excess of $50 million in total.

The week will start with South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art on September 13.

Invitation to the Feast, 2011

Hot Filipino artist Ronald Ventura is having his second solo show at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in New York, opening Sep 8. Entitled A Thousand Islands, the show will feature a new series of paintings and sculptures based on a floating island motif.

Christie’s New York will auction The Vivid Yellow, a rare, highly saturated fancy vivid yellow diamond of 32.77 carats, as the star lot of its October 18 sale of Magnificent Jewels. The golden yellow hue of this large pear-shaped stone is so intense and so deep that the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) ranks it amongst the rarest of gemstones in its class. The stone is expected to achieve in excess of US$6 million.

Four years in the making, with action choreography from Sammo Hung, My Kingdom is the new Chinese blockbuster that brings together the world of martial art and Chinese Opera with refreshingly new fight scenes.

Bonhams will be auctioning a stunning and finely restored Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost which used to be owned by the Maharaja of Mysore at its annual Collectors Motor Cars and Automobilia auction on September 16.

BLOW (Film Still), 2009

James Cohan Gallery will present DANDAN, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tabaimo opening September 15th and running through October 29th. This is the third solo exhibition at the gallery by the 35-year old Japanese artist, who is becoming well-known for her hand-drawn animations whose coloration bring to mind traditional ukiyo-e prints.

Sotheby's HK will be auctioning over 30 lots on Oct 4 to benefit the University of Oxford China Centre, a leading interdisciplinary centre for the study of China.

Singaporean artist Jane Lee, who just had a piece nominated for the Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize , will have a solo show opening at Osage Gallery in Hong Kong on Sep 16

The Esmelrada

To celebrate its 220th anniversary, Girard-Perregaux is launching a worldwide travelling exhibition of exceptional timepieces from its museum collection and of rare contemporary watches. It will be the most important set of its timepieces ever showcased outside Switzerland.

Dinh Q. Lê, Signs and Signals From the Periphery, installation view

The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts will present Medi(t)ation – 2011 Asian Art Biennial, opening on October 2 and running until January 2012. This will be the third Asian Art Biennial.

GAO Yu Dong Cunrui

Now in its 18th year, Art Taipei is the longest-standing art fair in Asia, with about 40,000 people attended last year. It will be running Aug 26-29 in Taipei with most of the galleries attending coming from North Asia

Nooki SASAYAMA The New World/ Hunting

It's never too early to start celebrating one of the most auspicious animals of the Chinese Zodiac.

New bronze works by Chen Wenling in his signature fire-engine car duco red are currently on show in the atrium and living room of The Opposite House, Beijing.

Molded porcelain snuff bottle. Qianlong mark, 1850-1920

Snuff bottles seem to be everywhere at auctions these days. Bonhams & Butterfiels' Asian Decorative Art sale in San Francisco on August 30 will have quite a few, most under $1,000-$2,000.

Pham Huy Thong - Brotherhood (Vietnam)

The Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize will be awarded in November. About 130 works across 24 countries and territories have been nominating for the Grand Prize of S$ 45,000, which is being organised by the Singapore Art Museum

The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanawa - Courtesy: Sumida City

In 2000 Life Magazine ran a survey to find out who were the most significant artists in world history. Hokusai Katsushika came 17th, ahead of Picasso!. The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin is opening on Aug 26 a major retrospective of his works.

Phantom Metropolis by Yang Yong Liang,will be opening on September 1st at Schoeni Art Gallery in Hong Kong.

A sheet of Chinese stamps commemorating the 1980 year of the monkey sold for HK$1.3 million at auction on Sunday, a new record. The stamps show a black monkey on a dark red background and have become highly collectable (as a sheet) because of the auspicious color for Chinese culture. The stamp was also released in 1980, a particularly lucky “Golden Monkey” year that only occurs every 60 years.

Turner Prize winner Richard Deacon will have a permanent wooden sculpture in the upcoming Louis Vuitton's Island Maison at the MBS, due to open on Sep 18. The well-known British sculptor is also doing a residency at the Singapore Tyle Print Institute right now, which should prove quite interesting

The Man Singapore Theatre Festival made it its mission to present new Singaporean plays and so far, half way through its run, it has delivered some must-see plays that are likely to stand the test of time.

Delhi-based Shambhavi Singh, more used to working on large installation and sculptural projects, explores paper's possibilities for her new exhibition 'Lonely Furrow'  at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute.

Christie’s will kick off its Autumn wine sale season with a two-day sale in Hong Kong Sep 3-4. Valued over HK$46 million/US$5.8 million, the sale features 572 lots comprising an array of pristine wines from every corner of the globe. Highlights of the two-day sale include a spectacular vertical collection of vintage 1981 to 2005 Château Lafite Rothschild on 3 September, and an extremely rare 1911 champagne direct from the Moët et Chandon winery to be sold on 4 September.

Mas Djon: The Man Behind the Easel will showcase personal letters, photographs, poems, sketches, drawings and personal belongings, along with some of the major paintings of S. Sudjojono, widely considered as the father of modern Indonesian art.

A gem-set gold pendant from the treasury of the legendary Indian ruler, Tipu Sultan, is among the star lots in the sale of the contents of Lord Glenconner’s St Lucian home at Bonhams on September 28. 

The Japanese philosopher, Hiroshi Kawano (b 1925), is one of the first pioneers in computer art, using a computer to generate visual works that could enter the domain of art. The ZKM will be dedicating a first retrospective to his work from Sep 23.

The first printed depiction of one of the most famous buildings in the world, the Taj Mahal, is among the highlights of Bonhams ‘India and Beyond: Travel and Photography’ sale in London on October 4.

Asia Society Museum in NY presents an exhibition of spectacular Buddhist sculptures, architectural reliefs and works of gold and bronze from the Gandhara region of Pakistan, most never exhibited before in the United States.

Korean artist Do Ho Suh will have a new exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in NY from Sep 8.

In 1989 the city of Hiroshima, established the Hiroshima Art Prize with the object of promoting through art the “spirit of Hiroshima” that yearns for permanent world peace and prosperity for all humanity. The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art is staging an exhibition showcasing the work of the eighth prize winner, Yoko Ono.

An Extremely Rare Imperial White Jade “Yongzheng Yubi Zhi Bao” Seal

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2011 will be held from Oct 1 to October 6, with over 3,400 lots on offer with a value in excess of $300 million. Selected highlights will be showcased in travelling exhibitions across Asia, starting in Singapore Sep 3-4, Bangkok Sep 6-7, Shanghai Sep 16-17, Beijing Sep 19-20 and Taipei, Sep 24-25. It will conclude with a public exhibition of all the properties on offer in Hong Kong from Oct 1-5.