Cover: Fire Shuts Indonesia’s National Museum, Jakarta. Profile: the artist Yukimasa Ida. Profile: the print maker Sarah Brayer. Colours of Kyoto, ceramics from the Yohei Studio. Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave, exhibition in California. Persimmons and Chestnuts, famous Zen paintings, come to San Francisco. Meiji Modern, celebrating the first 50 years of the Japanese Art Society of America, in New York. Toshiko Takaezu: Shaping Abstraction, in Boston. Objects of Addiction, a story of opium, at Harvard. Tofuku-ji, Zen artworks from medieval Japan. Bicentenary of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. 19th-century Japanese photography in Leiden, the art of Japanese carpentry in Paris, and ghostly Japanese prints in Washington DC. Peaks of Gold, mountain worship at the Miho in Shigaraki, and Nairy Baghramian at The Met. Gallery shows and auctions. Islamic Arts Diary.
Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) was a technically masterful and innovative artist best known for her ceramic sculptures, which she treated as abstract paintings in the round. Her gestural style, distinctive palettes, and complex layering of glazes align with the practices of… Continue reading
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan celebrates the first 50 years of the Japanese Art Society of America (JASA). Founded by a small group of print collectors in New York in 1973 as the Ukiyo-e Society of America, JASA… Continue reading
This Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) exhibition, which is a version of the exhibition that originated at the British Museum in 2017, is now on show in California at the Bowers Museum. The highlight of the show is, of course, the print… Continue reading
The show features works in porcelain and stoneware made by the Kyoto-based studio of Seifu Yohei from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. These works by members of the Seifu family reflect the Kyoto ceramics culture, in the former… Continue reading