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ENOURA OBSERVATORY, JAPAN

February 28, 2018Administrator
The Rock Garden that makes use of ancient stones found throughout Japan

Opening last October after more than a decade of preparation, the Enoura Observatory is an installation of gallery spaces, performance stages, a traditional teahouse, two ancient gates and many, yet-more ancient stones, constructed in the words of the founder ‘as… Continue reading →

Current Issue, MARCH 2018, Newspaper Japan

Takashi Murakami

November 5, 2017Administrator
Dragon in Clouds—Red Mutation: The version I painted myself in annoyance after Professor Nobuo Tsuji told me, “Why don’t you paint something yourself for once?", 2010, Takashi Murakami, Acrylic on canvas, 3670 x 18000 mm, © 2010 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  Unfortunately, eccentrics are ofttimes underrated – or overlooked. Socially, they can be considered unstable and therefore, somehow, unacceptable – that is if one is under the thumb of bourgeois morality. In the American South, however, family eccentrics are a… Continue reading →

Current Issue, Newspaper, NOVEMBER 2017 Artist Profile, Japan

Polished to Perfection

November 5, 2017Administrator
Vase with design of carp, one of a pair by Ota Jinnoei, , circa 1920, LACMA, promised gift from the Japanese Cloisonné Enamels Collection of Donald K Gerber and Sueann E Sherry. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Arguably, a thoroughly unexpected celebrity became entranced by Japanese cloisonné – Rudyard Kipling. He describes his reaction to seeing the cloisonné process like this: ‘It is one thing to read of cloisonné making, but quite another to watch it being… Continue reading →

Current Issue, Newspaper, NOVEMBER 2017 Enamelware, Japan

Kuniyoshi vs Kunisada

October 2, 2017Administrator
Nozarashi Gosuke, from the series Men of Ready Money with True Labels Attached, Kuniyoshi Fashion, about 1845, Utagawa Kuniyoshi

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Sotheby’s in New York and the auction houses in England and in Europe sold most late Utagawa School prints by Kuniyoshi (excluding his early works), Kunisada I aka Toyokuni III, Kunisada II and III,… Continue reading →

Current Issue, Newspaper, October 2017 Japan, Prints

A Century of Japanese Prints

August 31, 2017Administrator
Tipsy, from the series Modern Styles of Women by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi, 1930, colour woodblock print with mica, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Langenberg Endowment Fund

This show follows The Saint Louis Art Museum’s highly successful print exhibition, Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan that was reviewed in Asian Art Newspaper October 2016. Now, The Saint Louis Art Museum it is continuing its… Continue reading →

Back Issues, Newspaper, SEPTEMBER 2017 Japan, Prints

HOKUSAI

June 1, 2017Administrator
Clear day with a southern breeze (‘Red Fuji’) from Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji, colour woodblock, 1831 © The Trustees of the British Museum. On display from to 13 August

Ever since the age of six I have had a mania for drawing the forms of objects. Towards the age of fifty I published a very large number of drawings, but I am dissatisfied with everything which I produced before… Continue reading →

Current Issue, JUNE 2017, Newspaper Japan

The Beauty of Japanese Glass

May 1, 2017Administrator
Satsuma kiriko copper red overlay glass bowl with cross design, Edo period, 1846-1863, height 7.7 cm, mouth diameter 11.3 cm

By Yvonne Tan In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Miho Museum in Shigaraki, Japan is hosting this special exhibition of Japanese glass from the Bindeisha Vidro-Diamante Glass Museum of Matsuyama, Shikoku founded by Daito Norisato in 2011. Glass-making was… Continue reading →

Current Issue, MAY 2017, Newspaper Japan
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