Tag: Japan Society

Simon Starling: ‘A little knowledge is a powerful thing, and too much knowledge can stifle creativity’

The Turner Prize-winning conceptual artist underscores his first institutional show in New York with a meticulously researched multimedia installation based around WB Yeats’s 1916 play At the Hawk’s Well and Noh theatre
Life of Cats: Selections from the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Collection

Cats came to Japan from China in the sixth century, aboard ships carrying Buddhist texts. An enchanting new exhibition at the Japan Society presents these frolicsome felines in a distinctly Japanese cast, in ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints by Edo-period…
A Traveller in Time, from Standing Stones to the Distant Stars: an interview with Mariko Mori

In these works, Mori inserted herself into her scenes in a variety of provocative guises; for instance, as a platinum-blond shaman wearing a spacesuit and holding a “capsule”, an object with magical potential, weaving through Osaka’s Kansai International Airport in…
One Collector’s Delightful Passion

Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile An Exhibition of the Yoku Tanaka Collection, Japan Society, New York City 9 July–16 August 2009
A Fitting Coda to a Culture-Bridging Career. An interview with Joe Earle of Japan Society Gallery, April 2012

An interview with Joe Earle of Japan Society Gallery, April 2012
Picturing Paradox. The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin

The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin
Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection

Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection Japan Society, New York 12 March-13 June 2010
Making Art in Paradise. Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design

Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design Japan Society, New York 9 October 2009–17 January 2010
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan

Edited by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit. Japan Society/Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-300-11964-0 US$ 65.00 Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan, edited by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit, accompanies a major exhibition of medieval Chinese (Chan) and Japanese…