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September 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2:30 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japanese Galleries
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York, New York
Animals, Birds, Insects and Marine Life in Japanese Art
Masako Watanabe, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
will lead JASA members through this exhibition. In the print galleries, we will look at paintings by Kawanabe Kyōsai and Shibata Zeshin. Please sign up by contacting Christy Laidlaw at japaneseartsoc@yahoo.com or by telephoning her at (917) 658-3955.
October
Friday, October 31, 6 p.m.
Japan Society
Murase Room
333 East 47th Street
New York, New York
Clothing, Costume, and Identity in Recent Japanese Photography
Christopher Phillips, Curator at the International Center of Photography,
will talk about the work of four Japanese photographers who explore the use of highly stylized forms of dress to convey individuality in Japan today. These photographers--Tomoko Sawada, Masayuki Yoshinaga, Midori Komatsubara, and Hiroh Kikai--were all featured in the recent exhibition "Heavy Light" at the International Center of Photography.
November
Saturday, November 22, 2 p.m.
NYU Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
New York, New York
Symposium: The Birth of Shin Hanga
Artist Paul Binnie; Professor Kendall Brown, Department of Art, California State
University, Long Beach; collectors Vincent Covello and Darrel Karl will present their views on the development of shin hanga. Katherine Martin, Director of Scholten Japanese Art, will serve as moderator.
December
Monday, December 15, 6 p.m.
Japan Society
Murase Room
333 East 47th St.
New York, New York
Dogs in Japanese Prints
Dr. Raffaelle Roncalli, former president of the Ukiyo-e Society of America (now JASA) and past president of the American Veterinary Medical History Society will speak.
Members are encouraged to bring friends and a print featuring "man's best friend."
A holiday reception will follow the program.
April 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street)
New Haven, Connecticut
(203) 432-0611
Contact: Sadako Ohki
The Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art, at sadako.ohki@yale.edu
A Journey of Tea: Japanese Tea Culture Past and Present
In conjunction with this special exhibition being held January 20 through April 26, 2009, a one-day symposium on tea culture will bring together eight representatives of tea practice and theory.
Speakers: Christine Guth, professor at the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Samuel Morse, professor
at Amherst College and curator of an exhibition of tea arts at Smith College in May 2007; Akanuma Taka, curator of Mitsui Kinen Bijutsukan, Tokyo, and an art historian specializing in ceramics or Nishida Hiroko, curator at Nezu Institute of Art, Tokyo, and an
expert on ceramics; Nagoya Akira, curator of Gotoh Art Museum, Tokyo, and a specialist in calligraphy in the world of tea; Sen Sō'oku, tea master of Mushanokōji Senkea; Tsujimura Shirō, maker of tea-related utensils in Nara; Setsu Isao, head of Gatōdō, Tokyo, one of the most famous dealerships of tea related and Buddhist art; and Fujimori Terunobu, professor of architecture at Tokyo University and an enigmatic architect of modern tea houses.
Other related events are also scheduled for Thursday, April 16, and Saturday, April 18.
Past JASA programs
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