Asian art market: New York's Asia Week promises some outstanding sales, and an industry veteran has ambitious plans for Shanghai's contemporary art fair.

From: Apollo | Date: September 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED]

All eyes are on New York this month. Asia Week opens at Sotheby's on 16 September with the $6m-$8m sale of Chinese and Japanese art from the collection of Frieda and Milton F. Rosenthal. The cover lot is a rare and spectacular Guhyasadhana Avalokitesvara, a rare survival of an early Ming wooden temple sculpture of a deity from the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon (Fig. 2). The four-armed bodhisattva is seated on a double-lotus base with his consort, who represents female wisdom. On the underside an apparently undisturbed chamber--so CAT-scans reveal--contains ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Hong Kong working to enter high fashion
; NEW YORK Hong Kong is making an unusually...Institute of Technology in New York. In conjunction with the Bloomingdale's promotion, Hong Kong's top young designers...Council this fall in New York. In Hong Kong, unlike elsewhere, young...
HONG KONG TAKES BITE OUT OF BIG APPLE.(Business)
; ...Associated Press HONG KONG -- Hong Kong surged past New York this year and became...Federation of Exchanges. Hong Kong was second and the New York Stock Exchange...the U.S., then Hong Kong will grow to the extent of New York and ...
US buyers find little tempting at Hong Kong. (5th Hong Kong International Fur Fair)
; ...American furriers said Hong Kong furs have improved...Jiuliana Originals, New York. Zizzo, who was...need to fill and Hong Kong serves this purpose...amp; Sons, Inc., New York, on his first visit to Hong Kong. Stevens found...The labor (in Hong ...
The dragon at the window.(Hong Kong's 1997 return to China)
; HONG KONG IT TAKES a churlish...mind to think that Hong Kong, so vibrant in...celebrated the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...their city: What New York and London represent...chance, and now Hong Kong has the potential...London of Asia. Hong Kong as a ...
Hong Kong factories US bound. (Hong Kong apparel manufacturers opening factories in the US)
; ...operation. The New York factory just makes...operations from Hong Kong. In Hong Kong the...Manufacturing, Ltd., two Hong Kong apparel firms, set up factories in New York City about a year-a...Liz Claiborne in Hong Kong, and both ...
HONG KONG THE BAD NEWS: IT'S BEEN A MESS SINCE THE BRITISH LEFT. THE GOOD NEWS: IT'S CHEAP.(DAILY BREAK)
; ...horrendous red-tide left Hong Kong's shores littered with...departure of the British, Hong Kong decided to open a state-of-t...designed to catapult Hong Kong into the 21st century...days. No, promoting Hong Kong in the last year has not been easy. Still, Hong ...
LUXURY RUSHES EAST: HONG KONG BOOMS WITH NEW FLAGSHIPS.(Industry Overview)
; Byline: Miles Socha HONG KONG -- Look out New York. Watch your back Tokyo...major city in the world. Hong Kong now, it's like New York. It's at the top level...boutique at a later date. Hong Kong is another New York for me -- and things...
Clouds over Hong Kong.(important economic position may be threatened)
; HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI Financially, Hong Kong has long wanted to be the New York of China and the London...Chicago or--um--Toronto? ARE Hong Kong's best days as a financial...seems an odd question. Hong Kong is by far the largest...finance becomes more ...
Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years & Hong Kong the Super Paradox: Life After Return to China. (Book Reviews).
; HONG KONG IN TRANSITION: The...an Robin Porter. New York: St Martin Press...ISBN 0-312-23354-X. HONG KONG THE SUPER PARADOX...James C. Hsiung. New York: St. Martin's Press...forward into the new HKSAR experiment...subject matters -- Hong Kong's ...
ARBITRATION THRIVES IN HONG KONG
; ...Chinese meant that Hong Kong was no longer a...purposes of the New York Convention on the...directly enforced in Hong Kong under the New York Convention and...between the PRC and Hong Kong. The agreement...the spirit of the New York ...