What an incredible weekend! I just got back from a three-day trip to a chilly and windy Chicago. The main purpose of this visit was to reconnect with old clients and to see the seminal exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago - 'Mirroring China's Past: Emperor's and Their Bronzes'. This exhibition was one of the most amazing Chinese Art shows I have seen in the past couple of years and the main purpose of this blog (even though there might be a photo of a Chicago-style pizz

The 2016 American Curators of Asian Art Forum was held on May 19th and 20th in Toronto. Hosted by the Royal Ontario Museum and the Aga Khan Museum, the forum had over sixty Asian Art curators from Canada, the USA and Mexico descend upon Toronto. Despite lacking the curator credentials, I was kindly invited to the event by ROM hosts Dr Chen Shen and Dr Sascha Priewe. The majority of museums across North America with Asian Art collections were represented, from larger instituti