Year: 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if5bomVbF3A The Worcester (Massachusetts) Art Museum has a fine collection of Japanese art, and on April 21, 2025, Fiona Collins-Rosedahl, Assistant Curator of Asian Art, discussed the museum’s print exhibition Pictures of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of Shin Hanga (on view until June 29). Shin hanga, or “new prints,” emerged during a period of dramatic sociopolitical change in Japan as a nostalgic revival of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcxA4O_QqLs Dr. Matthew McKelway, Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History, Art History and Archeology at Columbia University giving a talk on “Birds, Diplomacy and Painting in 16th-Century Japan.” View more lecture recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNx0Lk3LTa8 On February 24, 2025, Samuel Leiter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theater at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, spoke on his latest book, Meiji Kabuki: Japanese Theatre through Foreign Eyes. This publication is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theater in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNTjOv3vU0 Contemporary Japanese metalworking breathes life into traditional methods that have been passed down and practiced over generations. The history of Japanese metalworking evolved over two millennia, through cross-cultural exchange and internal innovation. Techniques unique to Japan flourished as metalworkers created armaments, Buddhist ornaments, and vessels used in Japanese tea practice. In this January 20, 2025, talk, Dr. Sol Jung examines examples of contemporary Japanese…