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MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Spring-Summer 2009


Please contact museums before visiting, as exhibition dates, hours and admission charges may be subject to change.



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Alabama

Birmingham Museum of Art
2000 Eighth Ave. North
Birmingham, AL 35203-2278
(205) 254-2565
www.artsBMA.org

Reopening of the Japanese galleries with prints, paintings, sculpture, samurai armor and decorative arts
May

California

The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture
15770 10th Ave.
Hanford, CA 93230
(559) 582-4915
www.ccjac.org

New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters
Through May 9

Word and Image in Japanese Haiku Painting
May 12, 2 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Stephen Addiss, Professor of Art, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities, University of Richmond, Virginia. Reservation required: (559) 582-4915.

Japanese Beauties: Glamorous, Decadent, Sensuous, and Bizarre
May 24-August 1

Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armors
September 5-November 14

Hours: Tuesday -Saturday 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Admission: $5 for adults, $3 for students with ID Children 12 and under, free.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
(323) 857-6000
www.lacma.org

Contemporary Japanese Ceramics (in The Helen and Felix Juda Gallery)
Through May

Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, noon-8 p.m.; Friday, noon-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; closed Wednesday.
Admission: Adults, $9; seniors and students, $5; children 17 and under, free; free after 5 p.m.

J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1679
(310) 440-7300
www.getty.edu/museum/exhibitions/

Tales in Sprinkled Gold: Japanese Lacquer for European Collectors
Through May 24
The exhibit includes the 1640 masterpiece of black and gold lacquer known today as the Mazarin Chest. Lavishly decorated with scenes from Japanese literature including The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Soga Brothers, the chest is among the finest examples of a type of lacquer decoration perfected by the Japanese for European consumers.

Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
(650) 329-2179

Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection
Through April 27
Exhibition includes 12 Japanese basket makers.

Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626) 449-2742
www.pacificasiamuseum.org

The Samurai Re-Imagined: From Ukiyo-e to Anime
Through August 9

Nature of the Beast: Animals in Japanese Paintings and Prints
Ongoing
Online exhibition at www.pacificasiamuseum.org/japanesepaintings/index.stm.

Crocker Art Museum
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 808-7000
www.crockerartmuseum.org/index.htm

Soaring Voices: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists
Ongoing

Birds and Flowers: Japanese Woodblock Prints
August 7-October 18

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
200 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 581-3500
www.asianart.org

Lords of the Samurai
June 12-September 20
Works from the Hosokawa family collection

Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursdays, to 9 p.m.
Admission: Adults, $10; seniors 65 and older with ID, $7; youths 13-17 and college students with ID, $6; children 12 and under, free; Thursday after 5 p.m., $5.

Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado, Balboa Park
San Diego, CA
(619) 239-0003
www.mingei.org

Japanese Folk Fashion
Ongoing

Birds and Flowers: Japanese Woodblock Prints
Through May 31

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State St.
Santa Barbara, CA
(805) 963-4364
www.sbmuseart.org

From Geisha to Ghosts: Leading Ladies of Japanese Prints
Ongoing

Birds and Flowers: Japanese Woodblock Prints
Ongoing

Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m-5 p.m.
Admission: Adults, $9; seniors and students, $6.

Connecticut

Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8271
(203) 432-0600
http://artgallery.yale.edu/

Chanoyu: Japanese Tea Culture Past and Present
Through April 26

Hawaii

Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 South Beretania St.
Honolulu, HI 96814-1495
www.honoluluacademy.org

Capturing the Actor's Spirit: Kabuki Actor Prints by Katsukawa Shunshō
Through April 26

Nature, Dreams & Fantasy: Modern Japanese Creative Prints of the Post-War Period
Through May 31

Illinois

Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603-6110
(312) 443-3600
www.artic.edu

Ink on Paper: Monochromatic Japanese Prints
Through May 10

Japan's Immortal Poets: The Great Female Poets
May 16-August 16

The Coming of a New Age: Meiji and Taishō period Decorative Arts
Through August 9

Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum
June 27-September 27

Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115-5523
(617) 369-3222
www.mfa.org

Visions of Kyoto: Scenes from Japan's Ancient Capitol
Through May 31

Celebrating Kyoto: Modern Art from Boston's Sister City
Through August 9

Showa Sophistication: Japan in the 1930s
Through November 8

Quest for Enlightenment: Historical Buddha in Japanese Art
Through November 15

Hours: Sunday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, to 9:45 p.m.
Admission: Adults, $15; seniors and students, $13; children 6-17 school days until 3 p.m., $6.50, free at all other times.

Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury St.
Worcester, MA 01609 (508) 799-4406
www.worcesterart.org

Heavenly and Earthly Delights: Alive in Colorful Display
Four folding screens by or attributed to Utagawa Toyoharu, Miyagawa Chosun, and Sakai Hoitsu.
Through June 7

Rotations of its best screens
Ongoing

Hours: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Minnesota

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612) 870-3131
www.artsmia.org

Woodblock Prints by Kawase Hasui
Through May 31

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, to 9 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Admission: Free; a charge for some exhibitions.

New Jersey

The Newark Museum
49 Washington St.
Newark, NJ 07101
(973) 596-6550
www.newarkmuseum.org

Court Ladies and Courtesans: Private Worlds of Old Japan
Costumes, court dolls, paintings, prints, and netsuke.
Buddhist Arts of Asia
Both ongoing

Leonard L. Milberg Gallery for Graphic Arts
Firestone Library (second floor of Rare Books and Special Collections)
Princeton University
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544
609-258-3197
http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2008/08/beauty_and_bravado_in_japanese.html

Beauty and Bravado in Japanese Woodblock Prints: Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection
Through June 7
An opening reception and gallery tour will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 25, 2009. A lecture on Japanese prints will be given by Julie Davis, Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, on Sunday, May 3, 2009, at 3 p.m. in 101 McCormick Hall, followed by a reception in the Milberg Gallery.

Hours: Weekdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wednesday evenings, 5-8 p.m.; and weekends, noon-5 p.m.
Admission: Free.

New York

The Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 638-5000
www.brooklynmuseum.org

Japanese Landscape Painting
Through December
Eight hanging scrolls from the Muromachi, Edo and Meiji periods. Artists include: Watanabe Shiko, Yosa Buson, Noro Kaiseki and Kamisaka Sekka.

Japan Society Gallery
333 East 47th St.
New York, NY 10017
(212) 832-1155
www.Japansociety.org

KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games
Through June 14

Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile, The Yoku Tanaka Collection
July 9-August 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.
New York, NY 10028
(212) 570-3836 (Asian Dept.)
www.metmuseum.org

Hiroshige's The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi)
Through May 31

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Western Fashion in Japanese Meiji Prints (with a rotation on September 17)
Both June 18-November 29

Hours: Sunday, Tuesday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m.
Recommended admission: Adults, $15; seniors, $10; students, $7; free to members and children under 12 with an adult.

Ohio

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Dr.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 721-2995
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

The Art of Asia
Through May 19, 2010
Rarely seen objects from the permanent collection.

Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m-5 p.m., Wednesday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day and the Fourth of July.
Admission: Free.

Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College
87 North Main Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
(440) 775-8665
www.www.oberlin.edu/amam

Envisioning Edo's Splendor: "The Floating World" and Beyond
Through July 19
The majority of the works are drawn from the Mary A. Ainsworth bequest of 1950, a collection of nearly 1,500 prints.

Oregon

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
University of Oregon
1430 Johnson Lane
Eugene, OR 97403
(541) 346-3027
http://jsma.uoregon.edu

Art and Everyday Life in Japan
Ongoing
A new installation in the permanent collection galleries that includes ukiyo-e, showing the pleasures of daily life.

14 Views of Mt. Fuji
Ongoing
Selection from a series by Saitō Kiyoshi (1907–1997).

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19101
(215) 763-8100
www.philamuseum.org

Hello! Fashion: Kansai Yamamoto, 1971–1973
Through April 30

Daidō Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs
Through August 23

The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present
Through October 18

Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080
(412) 622-3131
www.cmoa.org

Chatham University Art Gallery
woodland Hall, on the Quad
Woodland Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
(412) 365-1232
www.chatham.edu

Matsubara: A Celebration in Pittsburgh
Through June 7
In this joint exhibition, The Carnegie Museum of Art will offer an overview of Naoko Matsubara's woodblock prints, while Chatham University will focus on the artist's book projects and watercolor hand-scrolls.

Rhode Island

RISD Museum
224 Benefit St.
Providence, RI 02903-2723
(401) 454-6520
www.risd.edu/museum.cfm

The Lure of Ink: Japanese Monochrome Prints and Books
Through July 5

Mountains and Rivers: Scenic Views of Japan
July 10-November 1

Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; third Thursday of month, to 9 p.m.
Admission: Adults, $8; seniors, $6; students, $3; youths to 18, $2.

Washington

Seattle Art Museum (downtown)
100 University Street
Seattle, WA 98101-2902
(206) 654-3100
www.seattleartmuseum.org

Pattern Richness in Modern Japanese Textiles
Discovering Buddhist Art: Seeking the Sublime
Ongoing

Washington, D.C.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Independence Ave. at 12th St. S.W.
Washington, DC 20013-7012
(202) 357-2700
www.asia.si.edu

Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics
Moonlight and Clouds: Silver and Gold in the Arts of Japan
Both through May 10

The Tale of Shuten Doji
Through September 20

Contemporary Japanese Porcelain
Continuing indefinitely

Japanese Screens
Continuing indefinitely

Hours: Daily, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Admission: Free.

Great Britain

The Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
020-7300-8000
www.royalacademy.org.uk

Kuniyoshi: From the Arthur R. Miller Collection
Through June 7
There are 150 works on display, and a catalog is available. This exhibit will also be coming to the Japan Society in New York City March 12- June 13, 2010.

Japan

Chiba City Museum of Art
3-108, Chuo, Chuo-ku
Chiba, Japan 260-8733
81-43-221-2311

Japanese Style Beauty: A Collaboration of Kawabata Yasunari and Yasuda Yuhiko
Through May 10

Kyoto National Museum
527 Chayamachi, Higashiyama-ku
Kyoto, Japan 605-0391
075-541-1151
www.kyohaku.go.jp

The Treasures of Myoshin-ji Temple
Through May 10

Museum of Kyoto
Sanjo-Takakura, Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto, Japan 604-8183
075-222-0888
www.bunpaku.or.jp/info_english.html

The One Hundred Years of Noritake Design
Through March 15

Nara National Museum
50 Noborioji-chō
Nara, Japan 630-8213
0742-22-7771
www.narahaku.go.jp/

Ganjinwajō: National Treasures from the Tenpyo Period
Through May 24

Edo-Tokyo Museum
1-4-1, Yokoami, Sumida-ku
Tokyo 130-0015
03-3626-9974
www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/kikaku/index.html

Tezuka Osamu Manga Exhibition
Through June 21

Sharaku Paintings Preserved in Greece
July 4-September 6

Eisei-Bunko Museum
1-1-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 112-0015
www.eiseibunko.com/

Enjoying Japanese Narrative Paintings
Through March 15

Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art
2-20-12 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku
Tokyo, 108-0071
www.ebara.co.jp/socialactivity/hatakeyama/english//

The Beauty of Japan: Hanayagi and Wabi
Through March 22

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (Tobikan)
8-36 Ueno Park, Taito-ku
Tokyo, Japan 110-0007
3213-9402
www.tobikan.jp/english/main.html

Famous Works from Japanese Museums
Through July 5

Idemitsu Museum of Arts
3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, Japan 100-0005
3213-9402
www.idemitsu.co.jp/museum

The Force of Letters: The Strength of Calligraphy
Through February 15

The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku
Tokyo, 110-8714
81-50-5525-2200
www.geidai.ac.jp/museum/exhibit/2009/amamonzeki/amamonzeki_en.htm

Amamonzeki—A Hidden Heritage: Treasures of the Japanese Imperial Convents
Through June 14

Yamatane Museum
KS bldg.1F, 2 Sambancho, Chiyodaku
Tokyo 102-0075
81-3-5777-8600
www.yamatane-museum.or.jp/english/index.html#menu4

Sakura, Sakura, Sakura
Through May 17

Uemura Shōen and Bijinga
Through July 26 (closed July 27-September 30)

Hayami Gyoshū: Eternal Challenges to Nihonga
October 1-November 29
A special exhibition commemorating the opening of the New Yamatane Museum of Art.

Kanazawa Bunko Museum
142 Kanazawa-cho, Kanazawa-Ku
Yokohama, Japan 236-0015
045-701-9069 (Japanese only)
www.planet.pref.kanagawa.jp/city/bunko/20nendokeikaku.htm

Painted Temples and Shrines
Through February 15

Ota Memorial Museum of Art
1-10-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, Japan 150-0001
03-3403-0880
www.ukiyoe-ota-muse.jp/english.html

170th Anniversary of Yōshū Chikanobu's Birth
April

Yoshitoshi: One Hundred Views of the Moon and Thirty-two Aspects of Women
May-June

Suntory Museum of Art
Akasaka 9-7-4, Minato-ku
11th Floor, Tokyo Midtown
Tokyo 107-8643
www.suntory.com/culture-sports/sma/

A Glittering Interlude: Visions of Satsuma-kiriko
Through May 17

Tenchijin (NHK Taiga Drama): The Life and Times of Naoe Kanetsugu
May 30-July 12

Tokyo National Museum
13-9 Ueno Park, Taito-ku
Tokyo, Japan 110-8712
www.tnm.go.jp

Sculpture of Asura from Kofukuji
Through June 7

The TNM Collection
Prints rotated monthly
List of woodblock prints on display.