Lecture Videos

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JkphqBlmus On December 10, 2025, Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu, Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art at the Portland Art Museum, explored the career of groundbreaking 20th-century painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (née Inoue, 1924–2017), a pioneering woman modernist in Japan. As a young painter, Yoshida Chizuko made remarkable inroads in the male-dominated, often conservative, art establishment of mid-century Japan, securing coveted prizes and invitations…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDAIKYGjVf0 On November 11, 2025, Dr. Andreas Marks, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, provided an overview of Japanese illustrated books in premodern times. Storytelling has always played an important role in Japanese visual arts. Over a thousand years ago, painted hand scrolls began to appear in Japan that enhanced text with pictures. This tradition of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236m0JM9f64 In this October 6, 2025, Zoom Webinar, Dr. Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Research Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Culture at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, speaks on manga, a Japanese visual narrative art form that has evolved over the past century into a global phenomenon. Once referring primarily to comics and graphic novels, manga now encompasses…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsADQMdVxcY Recorded July 29, 2025, this online introduction to the British Museum’s exhibition Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road, which was on view until September 7, 2025, includes not only an overview by the lead curator, Alfred Haft, but also a chance to hear from one of its featured lenders, U.S. collector Alan Medaugh, about his long-standing passion for Hiroshige prints. View more lecture recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKQvL47lC08 On June 9, 2025, Alicia Volk, Professor of Japanese Art at the University of Maryland, discussed her new book, In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan. This publication unearths an immensely creative yet almost entirely overlooked body of Japanese art. Introducing captivating but little-known paintings, prints, and sculpture made during the US occupation (1945–1952), her talk shows how the forgotten art of…