About Us

Arts of Asia, founded in 1970, is the world’s leading fine magazine of Asian art.

Now published four times a year, Arts of Asia has the largest circulation of any Asian art magazine and is distributed to 90 countries. It has the support of numerous museums, cultural organisations, universities and schools throughout the world, as well as major dealers and collectors, and art students.

Arts of Asia has been delighting collectors and connoisseurs of Asian art for over fifty years. Every issue is an authoritative source of information on the many and varied aspects of the arts of East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The magazine provides invaluable insights into the Asian art market, while analysing the activity and collecting trends at major auctions through regular auction saleroom reports from London, New York, Hong Kong and other art centres.

Unique in its presentation and itself now a collectable, the quality of the magazine’s content is matched by the excellence of its design and production. Perfectly bound with a strong laminated cover, the magazine is renowned for its superb full-colour reproductions. Arts of Asia is a magazine to be enjoyed at leisure that readers will want to keep and refer to repeatedly.

Arts of Asia Editors

Robin Markbreiter, Publisher and Editor, has worked at Arts of Asia since 1991. A MBA graduate from London Business School, he also writes and takes photographs for the magazine. He is a collector of Chinese, Japanese and Southeast Asian art, including Modern and Contemporary paintings, and Chinese export silver.

Paul Bromberg is a contributing editor to Arts of Asia and the former editor of the Journal of the Siam Society (2012–2023). He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, a lifetime member respectively of The Siam Society and the Southeast Asian Ceramics Society, and writes and lectures regularly about Thai and Chinese art and antiques. Resident in Asia since 1985, he read Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds, and also studied at Fudan University, Shanghai, and Xiamen University, Fujian province, China. He is the author of THAI SILVER and Nielloware (River Books, 2019).

Sheila Canby is Curator Emerita and former Patty Birch Curator in Charge of the Islamic Art Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until Autumn 2009, she was Curator of Islamic Collections at the British Museum. Her publications include Islamic Art in Detail (2005), Shah ‘Abbas: The Remaking of Iran (2009) and The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (2011).

Guo Fuxiang is Curator of the Palace Museum in Beijing. Since graduating in Museology from the Archaeology Department of Jilin University in 1989, he has been working in the Palace Museum on warehousing, cataloguing, displaying and researching antiquities. His comprehensive research of relics and history centres on imperial seals, jade carvings, timepieces, cultural exchange between China and the West, and palace life.

Julian Harding was born in Calcutta and graduated with honours from Cambridge University. His research has centred on the art and ethnography of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He works as a consultant for collectors, auction houses and museums.

Jessica Harrison-Hall is Head of the China Section, Curator of Chinese Ceramics and Decorative Arts at the British Museum, and Curator of the Sir Percival David Collection. She is currently working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded international project investigating cultural creativity in China’s long 19th century.

Rose Kerr is a former Keeper at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Honorary Associate of the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, Honorary Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Trustee of the Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Museum Expert Advisor for Hong Kong and an Honorary Citizen of Jingdezhen. Author and contributor to twenty-six books on Asian art, she is a contributing editor to Arts of Asia.

Denise Patry Leidy, who received her doctorate in art history from Columbia, is a specialist in Buddhist sculpture and Chinese decorative arts. She is the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, and has also served as the Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art (emerita) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and as a curator at The Asia Society and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In addition to working on numerous exhibitions, Denise is a prolific author. Her publications include How to Read Chinese Ceramics (2015), Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2010), The Art of Buddhism: Its History and Meaning (2008), and Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition in Asian Lacquer (2006).

Kerry Nguyen-Long is a researcher and author of books, and published articles on Vietnamese arts. Her book, Arts of Vietnam 1009–1945, was published in January 2013 by The Gioi Publishers, Hanoi, and her essay “Vietnamese Ceramics in the Context of History, Religion, and Culture” was featured in Vietnamese Ceramics from the Yi-Lu Collection, KenSoon Asiatic Art Pte Ltd, Singapore, 2016.

Colin Sheaf, born in 1952, read Modern History as a Double Exhibitioner at Worcester College, Oxford. In 1974, he began his long and ongoing career as a Chinese art specialist and auctioneer. Now a freelance author, lecturer and consultant to Bonhams, he is Chairman of The Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Jan Stuart is the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA), which is comprised of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Previously she was Keeper of Asia at the British Museum.

Ming Wilson was formerly Senior Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She has organised exhibitions and written books on a wide range of topics in Chinese art, including export paintings (2003), jades (2004), books (2006), imperial robes (2010) and the history of Chinese art in Britain (2008 and 2014).

Arts of Asia has a tradition of meticulously cataloging and storing back issues.

This serves both to preserve the historical record and to provide scholars of Asian art with a valuable research resource. We invite you to view the attractive magazine covers and interesting contents of each issue we have published since 1971.