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Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on ...
Old scrolls in new times: ... Five belong to the Nakashi community, while the rest are outsiders who learned the art from my father,” says D Rakesh, Vaikuntam’s son.
A 700-year-old Chinese painted scroll sold for nearly $42 million at an auction in Hong Kong. According to Sotheby’s, the piece of art fetched 306.6 million Hong Kong dollars ($41.8 million).
Old scrolls tell ancient story. To mark Bun Phawet, The Siam Society is presenting a rare one-day opportunity to view hand-painted banners detailing the story of Vessantara Jataka ...
Split into a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue, it makes clever use of the art center’s Curve gallery — a 90-meter-long (295-foot) space where her epic painted scrolls stretch into the ...