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Impressions Special Issue (2026)

The spring 2026 Impressions is a Special Issue devoted to Japanese ceramics that came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1975 as part sale, part gift from the dealer and collector Harry G. C. Packard (1914–1991). Twenty-two articles and sixteen authors cover everything from Jomon to Edo, from soba cups to Nabeshima dishes for daimyo. (View the Table of Contents here.)  This…
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Lecture: Lyrically Rebellious: The Prints of Onchi Kōshirō (Stephen Salel)

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…