I can't believe it's September already! This means there's only a few weeks left before the autumn Asian art auction season (and my ..read more

I hope everyone is having a pleasant summer! I have been in British Columbia for the past few weeks sourcing Asian art items for my next ..read more

In late May I managed to take a week off to make the 24 hour trip from Toronto to Hong Kong. I was there to view the important Asian art ..read more

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! It's mid-August now which means there's only 4 weeks left before the Asian art auction ..read more

This past May I attended the Spring Asian Art in London events for about 12 days. Even though the Spring edition of Asian Art in London ..read more

The April 2024 edition of my Heffel Asian art online sale was a great success and I'd like to thank all those who were involved once more - from the buyers, bidders, consignors and all my wonderful colleagues in the Heffel galleries in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Ottawa. I've collaborated with Heffel, Canada's national auction house, for over three years now and the offerings from the Asian art department have grown in quality and recognition since our humble beginnings during the pandemic. This past auction saw the 125 carefully selected pieces realize just over CAD $585,000 w ..read more

The March edition of Asia Week New York finished up a couple of weeks ago and I had a wonderful visit to one of my favourite cities in the world! I was in New York for six nights to check out all the Asian art auction previews, especially at the international auction houses Bonhams, Sotheby's and Christie's. There were also new Asian-themed museum exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Asia Society New York. For those of you who have been following my blogs and Instagram account @anthonywuart over the past 8+ years, I regularly make my way to New York for museum visits, appraisal ..read more

I have some exciting news for everyone! As of March 7th, 2024 I officially joined the Board of the Gardiner Museum! The Gardiner Musuem is one of my favourite museums to visit - not just in Toronto - but around the world. I have been going to this institution since the mid 1990's when my parents would take me there for lunches and a viewing of the galleries. Founded in 1984 by the philanthropists George and Helen Gardiner, the Gardiner Museum is Canada’s only museum that specializes solely in ceramic art. Despite being much smaller than the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) across the street, the Ga ..read more

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! To start off 2024 I would like to showcase one of the Japanese museums I visited in early December. As mentioned in my last post, I made a trip to Hong Kong to view the major sales at the auction houses Bonhams, Christie's and Sotheby's. On my way back to Toronto, I stopped in Tokyo for a week where I managed to visit various iconic temples and museums. Tokyo is renowned for their private Asian art museums and over the years I have been to many of them like the Matsuoka, Nezu and Idemitsu. Unfortunately you can't take photos in most of their respective galle ..read more

CSDA/CCAD Sundays: Expert Series presents  Tea, Art, and Culture - The Design Evolution of Japanese Tea Ceramics of the Late Edo Period  Sunday, May 5, 2024, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (EST) The tea ceremony was the central cultural sphere of Japan’s Edo period (1615–1868), in which social, political, and artistic ties were formed. The collection of ceramics, utensils, and decorative arts created for the tea ceremony is one of the most significant categories in Japan’s artistic canon. Early Edo workshops, such as Raku and Oribe, are well-known for austere and rustic designs that em ..read more