On a Sunday stroll on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn, I stumbled upon a small carpet and kilim shop. Kea is a fabulous little shop that sells rugs from all over the world. Susan, I believe the owner, was educating me on the meaning and back-story of each rug. Kilims hung on the wall like art and She was absolutely lovely. Very cool place!

Worth checking out!

Kea

477 Atlantic Ave, BK 11217

718.222.8087

manpodcast: This is Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks, one of the greatest paintings in the history of Chinese art. It is one of only two paintings still extant that scholars believe are by Song Dynasty master Li Cheng (919-967), who is generally considered to be the most significant Chinese landscape painter. See it in greater detail via the Google Art Project. The four-feet-by-two-feet scroll painting is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, which has the world’s greatest collection of early Chinese painting in the world. Many of the Nelson-Atkins’s best Chinese landscapes are on view through April 28 in “Journey Through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes Ancient and Modern.” These Song and Yuan Dynasty works are extremely fragile and the Nelson says that they won’t be on view again for ten years. The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Colin Mackenzie, the curator of Chinese art at the Nelson-Atkins. He tells us how the Nelson came to have such a remarkable collection of early Chinese landscape painting and about several of the treasures in his exhibition.  Listen to the program: Download this week’s show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See images of works discussed on the program.
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This is Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks, one of the greatest paintings in the history of Chinese art. It is one of only two paintings still extant that scholars believe are by Song Dynasty master Li Cheng (919-967), who is generally considered to be the most significant Chinese landscape painter. See it in greater detail via the Google Art Project.

The four-feet-by-two-feet scroll painting is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, which has the world’s greatest collection of early Chinese painting in the world. Many of the Nelson-Atkins’s best Chinese landscapes are on view through April 28 in “Journey Through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes Ancient and Modern.” These Song and Yuan Dynasty works are extremely fragile and the Nelson says that they won’t be on view again for ten years.

The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Colin Mackenzie, the curator of Chinese art at the Nelson-Atkins. He tells us how the Nelson came to have such a remarkable collection of early Chinese landscape painting and about several of the treasures in his exhibition. 

Listen to the program: Download this week’s show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See images of works discussed on the program.

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