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

Bonjour Paris! (Well… by now, it’s more like au revoir , Paris) In early June, I was finally able to return to one of my favourite cities in the world - Paris. It had been two years since my last visit, and once again, the trip was timed to coincide with the Printemps Asiatique Paris festivities. As many of you know, the international Asian art auction calendar kicks off every year in September and wraps up in June. This circuit primarily focuses on Chinese art and antiques

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

I hope everyone had a very Happy New Year and that 2025 is off to a good start! For the past few weeks I was able to take a bit of a...

October 6th marked the last day you can visit the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood. This was a sad...

I hope everyone is having a pleasant summer! I have been in British Columbia for the past few weeks sourcing Asian art items for my next...

This past May I attended the Spring Asian Art in London events for about 12 days. Even though the Spring edition of Asian Art in London...

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'm back from Paris now! This was a such a wonderful trip to one of the world's most famous cities. I haven't visited Paris since 2016...

This is my first post for 2023 and I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas break and Happy New Year! During the holidays I was in the...

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...

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...

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

If you haven't had a chance to visit the Gardiner Museum in Toronto recently, I highly recommend checking out their current exhibition...

And I'm back in New York City for Asia Week! Traveling to the Asian art shows in NYC was one of the major things I missed during the...

Hope everyone is having a nice summer! I've been keeping myself busy the past few months. In addition to a work trip to Vancouver in July...

Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe! Summer went by too quickly now that the Ontario government has loosened some of the...

My latest article just came out and can be found in the Fall 2019 issue of the Royal Ontario Museum's 'Friends of East Asia: Newsletter...