Trop Picks: Monet’s Garden in Naoshima
Claude Monet’s iconic paintings were inspired by the work of the great Japanese woodcut artist, Utagawa Hiroshige.
Claude Monet’s iconic paintings were inspired by the work of the great Japanese woodcut artist, Utagawa Hiroshige.
Little is known about the Chinese influence on Indian art. But the two civilisations have a long history of capturing each other’s imaginations.
What explains the special relationship between Sofia Coppola and Tokyo? Papa Francis was a Japanophile and young Sofia would go along on his trips to Japan.
M.F. Husain’s horse paintings owe an artistic debt to Xu Beihong’s paintings of the same, reiterating the Chinese influence on Indian modern art.
Noting a remarkable similarity between the homes of the Dawoodi Bohras of Sidhpur and the Peranakan Chinese.
In 1907, the Japanese newspaper Jiji ShimpÅ held Asia’s first beauty pageant heralding the entry of women into the public sphere.
It is a little known fact that these “African” cloths are not from Africa at all, but have their origins in Indonesia and are manufactured in Holland by a Dutch company called Vlisco for export to Africa.
In Arikamedu, near Pondicherry in South India (of Life of Pi fame), one can find the ruins of a Roman trading settlement dating from the first century C. E.
In a hundred short years, the Jews of Chennai changed the course of world history forever.
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