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College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...
Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...
Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...
John Westbrooke views a British Museum exhibition of “pictures of the floating world” Looking at Utagawa Hiroshige’s work, ...
These five masterpieces capture the very essence of the transformations that have shaped Japan's visual identity, from the ...
A recreated version of the 19th-century woodblock print collection Nhu Lai ung hien do (The Manifestation of the Tathagata) has been unveiled, attracting large crowds of monks, nuns, devotees, and art ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The American businessman Alan Medaugh, 81, has spent 50 years building up an unparalleled collection of ...
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting ... the progression of the bird and flower prints becomes incredibly prevalent, with a ...
Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.
The over 50 works on display, created from the 1700s to the 1900s by Japanese artists, show the lingering power of woodblock print art and the stories that the art represents, which continue to ...
The exhibit is titled, Japanese Prints in Transition, From the Floating World to the Modern World. And curator Lauren Palmor says the discipline required to make the woodblock prints is the magic ...