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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: Emerging from Darkness: Prints by Hamanishi Katsunori (Dr. Janice Katz)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BhD2-1gN_4 On May 7, 2026, Dr. Janice Katz, Roger L. Weston Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, discussed her exhibition, Emerging from Darkness: Prints by Hamanishi Katsunori (on view from at the Institute April 8 to June 22, 2026). Over his long and distinguished career, Hamanishi (born 1949) has focused on the production of mezzotint prints. Mezzotints are perhaps the most…