{"id":4459,"date":"2022-03-30T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:55:51","slug":"my-asia-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/?p=4459","title":{"rendered":"My Asia Week (redux)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Asia Week New York, self-described as a \u201cnine day extravaganza of exhibitions, auctions and museum shows,\u201d takes place towards the end of March and has done so since 2009 barring when the city –and the world –has been in shutdown mode.\u00a0 I learned a little about Asian art from my late husband who owned Art Asia, a gallery-cum-retail biz on Madison Avenue, so the week is always of interest.<\/h2>\n

In this Year of the Tiger there were opportunities to view Asian porcelain, jewelry, textiles, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, bronzes, prints, photographs, and jades sourced from different Asian countries and dating from 2000 BC to the present.<\/h2>\n

I went to three exhibits, <\/strong>all worthwhile,\u00a0 all very different as are the three galleries.<\/h2>\n

Da Ichi Arts, 18 East 64th<\/sup> Street, tucks a lot into a small brownstone space.\u00a0 The gallery’s Asia show was Future Forms: Avant-Garde Sculpture in Modern Japanese Ceramic.<\/em> Kato Momi made this beautiful ceramic piece of stoneware that is a very light pale green. Happily, it sold. Shingu Sakaya\u2019s Erosion reminded me of a sea anemone which the gallery assistant agreed was apt as she explained the complicated method by which the inner \u201ctendrils\u201d are rolled and hand-cut.\"\"<\/h2>\n
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Erosion<\/p><\/div>\n

Work by Jonathan Yukio Clark was at Miyako Yoshinaga, 24 East 64th<\/sup> Street, as was Jonathan himself. Japanese-American, raised in Hawaii, Jonathan showed me the stones he cast for this work which are based on actual stones in a wall built in Japan by his grandfather. The piece has a little sliding panel and incorporates a monotype (look it up; too complex to explain here) and several kinds of exotic wood<\/h2>\n

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Note “rocks” on left<\/p><\/div>\n

At Colnaghi, 38 East 70th Street, work from TAI Modern, a gallery in Sante Fe, focused on bamboo. Though all of it was worth seeing, the highlight were pieces by Yufu Shohaki, an 80-year-old artist known for his rough-plaited baskets that incorporate bamboo branches and roots, half-split chunks of bamboo, and bamboo ropes meaning he twists long pieces of bamboo into ropes and then makes shapes of them.<\/h2>\n
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Basket by Yufu Shohaku<\/p><\/div>\n

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Asia Week is an exceedingly special time with lots of great work that isn\u2019t ordinarily featured. Would that my bank account would permit owning one or two!<\/h2>\n

This recipe for Asian slaw is easy\u2014don\u2019t get fazed by the ingredients. If you can chop a carrot\u2014or buy one already chopped– you\u2019ve got it.\"\"<\/h2>\n

Asian Slaw<\/strong> from Once Upon a Chef by Jenn Segal<\/p>\n

(Segal says this serves 6 as a side dish\u2014looks like more to me)<\/p>\n

Dressing:<\/p>\n

\u00bc cup honey<\/p>\n

\u00bc cup vegetable oil<\/p>\n

\u00bc cup unseasoned rice vinegar<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon soy sauce<\/p>\n

1 teaspoon Asian sesame oil<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon peanut butter<\/p>\n

Heaping \u00bd teaspoon salt<\/p>\n

1 teaspoon Sriracha sauce (optional) \u2013I\u2019d omit<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger (peel and chop, no technique required)<\/p>\n

Slaw:<\/p>\n

4 cups prepared shredded coleslaw (note \u201cprepared\u201d i.e. in bag from supermarket)<\/p>\n

2 cups prepared shredded carrots (can be bought ready to go)<\/p>\n

1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced into bite-sized pieces<\/p>\n

2 medium scallions, finely sliced<\/p>\n

1 cup cooked and shelled edamame (serve the rest of the bag another time)<\/p>\n

\u00bd cup chopped salted peanuts (or you can leave them whole)<\/p>\n

\u00bd cup loosely packed chopped fresh cilantro (I\u2019m in the non-cilantro camp and omit)<\/p>\n

Whisk together all of the ingredients for the dressing in a bowl –be sure the peanut butter is dissolved. Set aside.<\/p>\n

Combine all of the slaw ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add the dressing and toss well. Let the slaw sit for at least ten minutes so the vegetables have a chance to soak up the dressing. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary (maybe needs more salt?)<\/p>\n

Note: Leftovers will keep in the fridge. Dressing can be made and stored several days ahead. This will pair well with almost any main course.<\/p>\n

If you know or wish to look up a toast in Japanese, Korean, Chinese or another Asian language, do so.\u00a0 Won\u2019t matter if you raise a glass of water, beer or something more exotic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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