Greetings from New York! I’m currently visiting one of my favourite cities in the world for the twice-annual Asia Week, North America’s major event for Asian art auctions. I’ll be writing more about this trip in my next blog where I’ll share all the Asian art highlights I’ve seen, so please stay tuned! For now, and as promised, I want to continue with the rest of my big summer journey, which took me from San Francisco to Hong Kong and Tokyo over a three-week period from late

Is everyone enjoying the last few days of summer? Mine seemed to pass far too quickly - especially since I’ve been traveling for the past three weeks. I began a long mid-August trip in San Francisco where I worked on an estate project, before continuing on to Hong Kong and Tokyo. Hong Kong was scorching hot (!), with daily temperatures averaging 35°C, not to mention the intense humidity. I spent a week there primarily to preview Sotheby’s major sale, Masterpieces of Chinese

Surprisingly, one of the major cities in the world with a renowned Asian art museum I never visited is San Francisco. Despite my...

Immediately after the close of my April online Asian art sale at Heffel (which wrapped on April 24th), I jetted off on one of my...

It's been a while since I last wrote about the Giga Pearl ! To be exact, my last blog on this subject was July of 2019 after the Giga...

Thank you once again to everyone who participated in my latest Asian art online sale at Heffel , Canada's national auction house! I'm...

The traveling just keeps on coming! A few weeks ago I was in New York for the Asia Week New York festivities (you can read about my trip...

The April 2024 edition of my Heffel Asian art online sale was a great success and I'd like to thank all those who were involved once more...

The March edition of Asia Week New York finished up a couple of weeks ago and I had a wonderful visit to one of my favourite cities in...

I have some exciting news for everyone! As of March 7th, 2024 I officially joined the Board of the Gardiner Museum ! The Gardiner Musuem...

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! To start off 2024 I would like to showcase one of the Japanese museums I visited in early December. As...

I hope everyone is looking for the Christmas holidays! I just got back from a long trip to East Asia where I was in Hong Kong for 8 days....

This past Asia Week in New York saw strong prices across the board for Chinese works of art including Chinese porcelain and ceramics,...

In early March I did a whirlwind tour of East Asia! This was my first time back to the region since before the pandemic, and over a 14...

I hope everyone is doing well as looking forward to the holiday season! My apologies for taking so long to put the finishing touches on...

I'm really having a blast during my trip to London! Not only am I enjoying the Asia Week in London events with all the auction previews...

And that wraps up another New York Asia Week! The last couple of months has been wonderful for the Asian art market, even a resurgence of...

Hello again and I can't believe it's August already! By now I hope everyone has had a summer vacation - and for those who haven't, will...

Back in May I was able to visit London England for the first time in almost 3 years! This was an extremely exciting trip for me because I...

Last month I had the pleasure of visiting London for the first time in almost three years! Even though I resumed traveling...