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January 2009
Auction Results Are Yet Again A Mixed Bag
December 2008
Chinese Dust Bowl Photo Wins Inaugural Prix Pictet
November 2008
Mixed Auction Results in Global Economic Crisis
October 2008
Saatchi Gallery Opens in London with New art from China
September 2008
Tulou Earthen Houses, China, on World Heritage List.
June 2008
Indian Artist Wins the Third Artes Mundi Prize
January 2009
Hara Museum: The New Kankai Pavilion of Traditional Japanese Art
Hara Museum: The New Kankai Pavilion of Traditional Japanese Art
THE HARA MUSEUM in Tokyo and its country branch known as ARC, in Gumma Prefecture, a couple of hours’ drive north of the city, are well-known and respected venues for contemporary art exhibitions. The Kankai Pavilion – a new annex to the ARC complex – was opened last July to store and display masterpieces of traditional painting calligraphy, lacquerwares and ceramics accumulated by Rokuro Hara (1842-1933), together with contemporary works collected by his great-grandson Toshio Hara, the founder and present director of the museum.
Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e
Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e
THIS EXHIBITION is drawn from the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection, one of the largest in the world (over 25,000 prints, paintings, artists’ sketches and copyists’ drawings) is showing the work of artists such as Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Suzuki Harunobu, Isoda Koryūsai, Kitagawa Utamaro, Utagawa Toyokuni, Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Sadahide.
Hamada Shoji: The Horio Mikio Collection
Hamada Shoji: The Horio Mikio Collection
THE JAPANESE POTTER, Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) had a deep kinship with his art. A major proponent of the mingei, ‘folk art’ movement, founded by Yanagi Muneyoshi (1899-1961) in 1926, he was devoted in principle, to the spirit of the ‘unknown craftsman’ and to its rapidly vanishing traditions. Hamada, who went on to become one of the most renowned 20th-century folk art ceramicists, was thus identified for much of the time as a mingei artist.
Rinpa: The Art of Japan’s Renaissance
Rinpa: The Art of Japan’s Renaissance
ONE OF FALL’S annual pleasures is 'The Big Autumn Exhibition' at the Tokyo National Museum (TNM) and this year the organisers pulled out all the stops with a breath-taking show of Rinpa art in celebration of the 350th anniversary of Ogata Korin’s birth. Korin (1658-1716) is considered the leading exemplar of the Rinpa school of decorative art that was later named after him: (Korin plus ‘ha’: ‘school of’). This exhibition was divided into sections devoted to the works of early, middle and late Edo-period Rinpa artists and includes masterpieces of paintings, lacquerware, ceramics and textiles selected from Japanese and foreign collections. Continuing the theme will be another major Rinpa exhibition of the works of Korin and his brother, Kenzan (1663-1743) at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Izu Peninsula, during January and February.