My next Orientations article will be featured in their March/April 2017 edition where I discusses Chinese art market trends and highlights from the past Fall. Aptly titled "Chinese Works of Art Auction Highlights - Autumn 2016", the issue should hit museums and bookstores in the coming days - just in time for the start of Asia Week! This review covers international auction results from the 'Big Three' international houses - Bonham's, Christie's and Sotheby's. Hopefully reader

Happy belated Chinese New Year! January 28, 2017 marks the beginning of the rooster year and the end of the monkey year (my Chinese zodiac sign). I'm definitely no Chinese zodiac master, and through my 'scientific' online searches, I realized there are probably dozens of conflicting characteristics for people born under this sign (take 2017 and keep subtracting multiples of 12 to see if you are born in the year of the rooster, i.e. 2005, 1993, 1981, etc). People born in the y

Boston remains one of my favourite cities along the East Coast and I was fortunate enough to visit for a few days in late August. With the feel of a smaller version of Toronto, the majority of the city is easily walkable. There are famous landmarks, amazing restaurants and some of the best museums in North America. It has been a couple of years since I last visited so I did make a point to visit the newly renovated Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Harvard Art Museums (they