Imagine for a moment a warehouse building in Seattle. Antiques are gathered there from Japan throughout the year. Then for two weeks of the year, the warehouse is open to the public. Would you travel to Seattle for that? We did. We made our way to Kyoto Art and Antiques for the open warehouse from … Continue reading A Warehouse Sale Worth Waiting For
Two exhibitions have brought Japanese art to the city of Dallas. It is a welcome change from shows like the staid flower paintings of Bouquets at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). These two exhibitions, one at DMA (Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga) joined The Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese … Continue reading East Meets Texas, Part 1–Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese Fashion at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
Works on display later this summer at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center will explore the topic of privileged ignorance. Local artist Allison Proulx depicts flourishing city centers layered over elements of frequently catastrophic current events. “The ease with which we are able to overlook global chaos and suffering reflects how desensitized and disconnected we … Continue reading Urban-Themed Artworks Explore the Privilege of Ignorance
Albany, Texas is about as far away from Tokyo as you can get, but Kana Harada has brought her cherry blossoms to the Old Jail Art Center. For a fleeting period of spring time, the 19th century jail is infused with meditative zen. Kana moved from Tokyo with her husband, an expatriate from Texas Instruments, … Continue reading A Japanned Cell – Note on Kana Harada’s installation at the Old Jail Art Center
This time of year, New York is overloaded with opportunities to view and buy antiques and art. Over the weekend, the Architectural Digest Home Show in conjunction with DIFFA and the Artists Project at the Pier was pitted against the events surrounding the Asia art auctions and sales. Stage for an Audience of One As … Continue reading An Emperor’s Retirement Home & Japanese Screens in Mexico
The preview for the Arts of Pacific Asia Show will benefit victims of the recent earthquake in Japan promoters announced today. The event is one of the many many collectively comprising Asian Arts Week in New York. The producers of New York Arts of Pacific Asia, Elizabeth Lees and Bill Caskey, have joined forces with … Continue reading Arts of Pacific Asia Show Preview to Benefit Japan Quake Victims
A book we picked up at the Wadworth Atheneum has been my introduction to art from Japan and the fascination Victorians had with the formerly isolated nation in the 1870s. Japanese ports were closed to all but a few Dutch and Chinese traders for nearly two centuries. That changed in 1854 after a few months … Continue reading The Japan Idea
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