New York’s September art fair calendar, bookended as it is by Armory Week and the local edition of Affordable Art Fair, can have an overshadowing effect on the city’s scene, making it easy to forget about lower-profile mid-month art events like the autumn edition of Asia Week New York. You can be forgiven if the previous sentence gave you pause—Asia Week New York, a 10-day celebration of Asian art, is most commonly associated with the spring auction calendar. Earlier this year, the March program brought with it notable sales of a complete set of Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji and artifacts from Tibet, Nepal and Greater China from the collection of Senator Dianne Feinstein plus shows at twenty-eight galleries around the city.
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The autumn edition of this biannual event is often (though not always) smaller; in the fall of 2018, organizers suggested that visitors “think of it as a teaser for the March 2019 edition of Asia Week New York.” This year’s fall Asia Week New York program, which kicked off yesterday Sept. 11 with a lecture titled Four Centuries of Blue & White with decorative arts expert Becky MacGuire, features........