Japanese Prints: Hokusai at LACMA April 13, 2013–July 28, 2013 Pavilion for Japanese Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art The museum’s collection includes excellent prints by the renowned Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). Among the museum’s holdings are two of this artist’s most iconic works, popularly known as Red Fuji...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art Installation: Maruyama Ōkyo | Birds and Flowers On View: January 19 — July 2013 Location: Pavilion for Japanese Art, East Wing This installation of paintings from LACMA’s permanent collection focuses on the artist Maruyama Ōkyo and his followers. Ōkyo (1733-1795) changed the course of Japanese...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Japanese Prints: Hokusai at LACMA Pavilion for Japanese Art April 13 – July 28, 2013 Free with museum admission, no reservations Robert T. Singer, department head and curator of Japanese art, will lead a tour of Japanese Prints: Hokusai at LACMA on Sunday, May 5 at...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents the U.S. debut of Maruyama Okyo’s Cranes (1772), an extraordinary pair of Japanese screens on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 at its Pavilion for Japanese Art. The exhibition of Okyo’s Cranes will run for four month. The closing date is not announced yet. The screens was recently...
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Ohie Toshio; Karasawa Hitoshi, The Life of Saigyo, 1995, leather-bound book with slipcase and chemise, engravings and prints by Karasawa Hitoshi, biography of the poet Saigyo by Tsuji Kunio, published by Shinkosha, collection of Ohie Toshio. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents the first solo museum exhibition for Japanese bookbinder...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art will invite world-class master of Zen calligraphy Shodo Harada Roshi from Japan for its program on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 2 pm at Dorothy Collins Brown Auditorium at the LACMA campus, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Admission is free, but tickets are sold out. Shodo Harada...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will open Paths to Enlightenment exhibition at its Pavilion for Japanese Art, East Wing on April 12. This installation of paintings from LACMA’s permanent collection presents the uniquely blended mix of religions in Japan, whose populace was historically offered a variety of paths to spiritual understanding or...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents the lecture “Shifting Forms: Ancient Inspirations in Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Art” by Robert Yellin on June 7 at 6:30 pm. Robert Yellin, noted dealer and author on ceramics of Japan, will look at how contemporary Japanese ceramic artists are reinterpreting ancient traditions, such as Bizen, Shigaraki and...
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In conjunction with the exhibition Fracture: Daido Moriyama (April 7 – July 31) at the Japanese Pavilion of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA and the Japan Foundation will screen a series of films that offer a raw, street-level view of Japanese urban life, while also confronting such poignant, postwar theme as...
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Paintings in the exhibition “Japanese Painters Looks to China” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reveal trends within the second and third waves of powerful interest in China which occurred during Japan’s history, the first happening in the Heian period (8th to 12th centuries), followed by the second from late Kamakura through...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art is exhibiting the resorted seventeen-century screen depicting a shirne’s night festival at its Japanese Pavilion through April 1. Night Festival of Tsushima Shrine is an eight-panel screen measuring nearly six by sixteen feet and depicts the summer festival of Tsushima Shrine, an ancient Shinto shrine near Nagoya in...
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An Exhibition and Performance based on Washi at Los Angeles County Museum of Art Washi Tales: The Paper Art of Ibe Kyoko, Sept. 1 to Nov. 28 Recycling: Washi Tales, performance Sept. 22, with Japan’s Intangible Culture Treasure Okura Shonosuke By Hollis Goodall, Japanese Art Curator of LACMA Time, texture and light are the...
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