Year: 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BhD2-1gN_4 Dr. Janice Katz, Roger L. Weston Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses her new exhibition, Emerging from Darkness: Prints by Hamanishi Katsunori, on view from April 8 to June 22. Over his long and distinguished career, Hamanishi (born 1949) has focused on the production of mezzotint prints. Mezzotints are perhaps the most demanding of all print techniques and are…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7lse8aGWs Following her popular in-person exhibition tour in February  2026, Dr. Monika Bincsik, Diane and Arthur Abbey Curator for Japanese Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presented a lecture on April 23, 2026, to discuss the exhibition she has curated in the Arts of Japan Galleries of the museum, which will be on view until August 8, 2027, in three rotations. (The current…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idIDeN-uBBI On March 22, 2026, prior to JASA’s annual meeting, Meghen Jones, Professor of Art History at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, gave the talk We Do Not Work Alone: Kawai Kanjirō and Ceramics in Modern Kyoto. View more lecture recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTIEIHxV8_Q In this March 3, 2026, lecture, Dr. Rosina Buckland, Asahi Shimbun Curator in the Department of Asia at the British Museum, discusses the major exhibition Samurai at the museum until May 4, 2026. The exhibition examines the history and myths of the samurai, from their warrior origins in the 11th century to their pervasive presence in popular culture today. As Lead Curator, Dr. Buckland…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUPMjL_PTOg In this webinar recorded January 13, 2026, Stephen Salel, curator of Japanese Art at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) discusses an exhibition currently on view at HoMA that commemorates the 70th anniversary of the death of Onchi Koshirō (1891–1955), the leader of the Creative Prints (sōsaku hanga) movement and one of Japan’s first abstract artists. Thanks to the generosity of Honolulu-based collectors such…