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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.
	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.