Lecture Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDKIhVaQTtE In 2021, several superb exhibitions focused on the master artist Hokusai. A wonderful show at the National Museum of Asian Art, on view until January 9 2022, highlights the collection of Hokusai drawings, paintings and screens collected by its founder, Charles Lang Freer. Across the Atlantic, the British Museum features a much-anticipated exhibition of drawings by Hokusai until January 30, 2022. Other museum curators…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ls-iXkboM This November 3, 2021, talk drew on groundbreaking research into Edward C. Moore, the head of Tiffany & Co.’s silver division during the second half of the 19th century, conducted for the recently published book Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. and the accompanying exhibition that will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum in 2024. An avid, pioneering collector of works…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNE2JbJPvao On October 12, 2021, Japanese art historian Meher McArthur discussed her upcoming exhibition Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper, which will begin touring the country this autumn. Her talk presented the works of nine Japanese artists featured in the exhibition: Hina Aoyama, Eriko Horiki, Kyoko Ibe, Yoshio Ikezaki, Kakuko Ishii, Yuko Kimura, Yuko Nishimura, Takaaki Tanaka and Ayomi Yoshida. These artists have different…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk5r2E3i2Zs Through January 1, 2022, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is exhibiting Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality, the first solo presentation of work by the artist at a U.S. museum in 25 years  On September 20, 2021, Lia Robinson, Director of Programs and Research at the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, was joined by Liquid Reality curator Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator, MoMA, to introduce recent…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daquSpNlEkk Celebrating a gift of over 100 prints by Saitō Kiyoshi from members Charles and Robyn Citrin, The Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, opened Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening in March 2021—the first major survey of the artist’s work since his death. On July 13, 2021,  Rhiannon Paget, PhD, the curator of the exhibition, presented a talk on Saitō’s transition from painting to print,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygEVjiFLg40 On June 16, 2021, this second lecture of a two-part series (view Part 1) explored the nature of color in Japanese painting and prints. Renowned scientist and head of the Scientific Laboratory of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marco Leona, shared the studies of his department and collaborations with art historians and curators. With the Met’s outstanding collection of screens, paintings and woodblock prints,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkmYuViiaU0 On June 9, 2021, this first lecture of a two-part series (view Part 2) explored the nature of color in Japanese painting and prints. Renowned scientist and head of the Scientific Laboratory of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marco Leona, shared the studies of his department and collaborations with art historians and curators. With the Met’s outstanding collection of screens, paintings and woodblock prints,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17X53BJR0M On May 12, 2021, Elizabeth Emery, PhD, Professor of French at Montclair State University, spoke about her new book, Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020). The talk was moderated by Rachel Saunders, PhD, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums, and recently elected member of the JASA Board of Directors.…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFpjc-GNyN8 The connection between fashion and economy is often indicated by frequent changes in style. Extensive textile production, development of new techniques, designs of novel patterns, the regular publication of woodblock-printed pattern books were amongst the sectors of economy devoted to the ever-changing supply of garments in early modern Japan. In this April 21, 2021, presentation, Monika Bincsik, PhD, Diane and Arthur Abbey Associate Curator…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSNcJNEu6XI On April 6, 2021, John Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduced this special three-month-only rotation (March 8–May 31) in the Print Room (Gallery 231) in the Arts of Japan Galleries. The exhibition highlights masterworks of ukiyo-e prints from the collection of Florida-based collector Lee E. Dirks, who is interviewed in Impressions 42, Part One. The…