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Masterworks: A Journey through Himalayan Art
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Jan 29, 2021 to Jan 08, 2024
Detail: Masterworks: A Journey through Himalayan Art explores major strands in the development of art from the Himalayan region covering a period of more than one thousand years, with objects drawn primarily from the Rubin Museum’s collection.

Masterworks is organized geographically and chronologically, showcasing the diverse regional traditions of Tibet in relation to the neighboring areas of Eastern India, Kashmir, Nepal, Bhutan, China, and Mongolia. Juxtaposing the art of Himalayan regions over time sheds light on the geographic, historical, religious, and artistic interrelationships among these cultures.

This ongoing exhibition reflects our evolving understanding of the relatively young field of Himalayan art. Masterworks is regularly updated as new art objects and texts come to light, reflecting the latest developments in the field. The current iteration features several loans from the Zhiguan Museum of Fine Art, which brings further depth to the themes and extraordinary craftsmanship demonstrated throughout the exhibition.

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Gateway to Himalayan Art
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Jun 11, 2021 to Jun 04, 2023
Detail: Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces you to the main forms, concepts, meanings, and traditions of Himalayan art represented in the Rubin Museum collection.
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Mandala Lab
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Oct 01, 2021 to Oct 30, 2027
Detail: An Interactive Space for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning

The Mandala Lab, located on the Museum’s remodeled third floor, invites curiosity about our emotions. Consider how complex feelings show up in your everyday life and imagine how you might have the power to transform them.
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The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Oct 11, 2021 to Oct 30, 2023
Detail: Since it first opened, the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room has been one of the most popular installations at the Rubin Museum, providing an immersive experience inspired by a traditional shrine.

Art and ritual objects are displayed as they would in an elaborate private household shrine, a space used for offerings, devotional prayer, rituals, and contemplation. The design of the Shrine Room showcases these objects while incorporating elements of traditional Tibetan architecture and the color schemes of Tibetan homes.

For Museum visitors, this richly detailed, immersive installation provides an oasis for peaceful contemplation at the heart of the Rubin Museum.
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Shrine Room Projects
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Nov 12, 2021 to Oct 30, 2023
Detail: In dialogue with the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the center of the gallery, Shrine Room Projects is an exhibition series that features contemporary artists who reinterpret traditional and religious iconography. This juxtaposition provides visitors with the opportunity to reflect on the themes and symbols emanating from the Shrine Room.
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Samurai Splendor: Sword Fittings from Edo Japan
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Mar 21, 2022 to Mar 31, 2024
Detail: After almost a century and a half of near-constant civil war and political upheaval, Japan unified under a new ruling family, the Tokugawa, in the early 1600s. Their reign lasted for more than 250 years, in an era referred to as the Edo period, after the town of Edo (present-day Tokyo) that became the new capital of Japan. The Tokugawa regime brought economic growth, prolonged peace, and widespread enjoyment of the arts and culture. The administration also imposed strict class separation and rigid regulations for all. As a result, the ruling class—with the shogun as governing military official, the daimyo as local feudal lords, and the samurai as their retainers—had only a few ways to display personal taste in public. Fittings and accessories for their swords, which were an indispensable symbol of power and authority, became a critical means of self-expression and a focal point of artistic creation.

This installation explores the luxurious aspects of Edo-period sword fashion, a fascinating form of arms and armor rarely featured in exhibitions outside Japan. It presents a selection of exquisite sword mountings, fittings, and related objects, including maker’s sketchbooks—all drawn from The Met collection and many rarely or never exhibited before.
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Recollections of Tokyo: 1923–1945
Place: The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, USA
Date: Jul 02, 2022 to Sep 25, 2023
Detail: In 1923, Tokyo was devastated by the Great Kantō earthquake. Despite the destruction caused by this natural disaster, the city developed at an astounding rate over the next few decades. During this period, a number of printmakers documented their impressions of the city’s ruin and rebirth. While some of these prints depict the remnants of destroyed buildings, many more show people enjoying the city’s new developments, from the bustling Ginza shopping district to the fashionable cafés of Shinjuku. This modern urban landscape became a favorite subject for artists such as Oda Kazuma (1882–1956), a lithographer who portrayed Tokyo’s crowded streets and nighttime attractions.

The allure of Great Tokyo, as it came to be called, would be short-lived. The area was firebombed by Allied forces during World War II, causing another round of devastation. The prints made in the period between the earthquake and World War II thus became a kind of time capsule. In 1945, some artists were prompted to reissue their scenes of urban life, along with new prints that were similarly nostalgic; this expanded series was called Recollections of Tokyo and the complete series is on view in this exhibition. A number of the scenes featured in these prints are recognizable today, including views of Tokyo Station, Ueno Zoo, and the bars and clubs of Shinjuku. Taken together, such representations of forgotten or lost places and buildings remind us of time’s passage and the ever-changing nature of a dynamic urban metropolis.
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A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Jul 02, 2022 to Feb 17, 2025
Detail: More than a hundred remarkable objects from the Heber Bishop collection, including carvings of jade, the most esteemed stone in China, and many other hardstones, are on view in this focused presentation. The refined works represent the sophisticated art of Chinese gemstone carvers during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) as well as the highly accomplished skills of Mogul Indian (1526–1857) craftsmen, which provided an exotic inspiration to their Chinese counterparts. Also on view are a set of Chinese stone-working tools and illustrations of jade workshops, which will introduce the traditional method of working jade.
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Embracing Color: Enamel in Chinese Decorative Arts, 1300–1900
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Jul 02, 2022 to Feb 17, 2025
Detail: Enamel decoration is a significant element of Chinese decorative arts that has long been overlooked. This exhibition reveals the aesthetic, technical, and cultural achievement of Chinese enamel wares by demonstrating the transformative role of enamel during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. The first transformational moment occurred in the late 14th to 15th century, when the introduction of cloisonné enamel from the West, along with the development of porcelain with overglaze enamels, led to a shift away from a monochromatic palette to colorful works. The second transformation occurred in the late 17th to 18th century, when European enameling materials and techniques were brought to the Qing court and more subtle and varied color tones were developed on enamels applied over porcelain, metal, glass, and other mediums. In both moments, Chinese artists did not simply adopt or copy foreign techniques; they actively created new colors and styles that reflected their own taste. The more than 100 objects on view are drawn mainly from The Met collection.

Rotation 1: July 2, 2022–April 30, 2023
Rotation 2: May 20, 2023–March 24, 2024
Rotation 3: April 13, 2024–Feb 17, 2025
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Jegi: Korean Ritual Objects
Place: The Met Fifth Avenue - New York, 1000 Fifth Avenue, USA
Date: Aug 06, 2022 to Oct 15, 2023
Detail: Rituals and customs help celebrate life’s milestones, remember the past, and mark time. In addition to their significance as social conventions, rituals often reaffirm state, governmental, and religious principles. In Korea, performing ancestral rites (jesa) is an enduring tradition that embodies respect for parents and the commemoration of ancestors, key tenets of Confucianism.

During the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), Neo-Confucianism was the ruling ideology. People engaged in rituals on the birth and death anniversaries for ancestors upward of five generations, and on major holidays, such as the Lunar New Year and Chuseok (Harvest Moon Festival). Court ancestral rites became the bedrock of Joseon political life and were enacted on a grand scale that included musical and dance performances. A key feature throughout was a table bearing food and drink offerings presented on jegi, or ritual objects.

This exhibition features the various types of ritual vessels and accessories that were used for this purpose and entombed, as well as the kinds of musical instruments played at state events. Though the vessels’ shapes, sizes, and materials may differ, a persistent feature is elevation, either through a high foot or a pedestal. In contemporary Korean society, no longer constrained by prescriptive state rules, jegi inspire contemporary artists and influence the form of everyday tableware.
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Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection
Place: Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art. - 1050 Independence Ave SW, Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art., Washington, USA
Date: Aug 13, 2022 to Feb 18, 2024
Detail: Tomioka Tessai (1836–1924) exemplifies the modern Japanese painter. Contemporaries praised his avant-garde works, yet Tessai created his nonconformist paintings in a traditional way, basing them on ancient Japanese art and Ming and Qing paintings imported from China. Tessai’s teacher Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875)—nun, potter, calligrapher, poet, political activist—was at the vortex of immense political changes in Japan as the country’s feudal system collapsed and a constitutional monarchy was established. Rengetsu’s art, which harks back to inspirations from the twelfth century, inspired a generation of modern artists like Tessai.

Meeting Tessai highlights a transformative gift of early modern and modern Japanese paintings and calligraphy from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection. It is also the first major American exhibition in five decades to explore the significance of pan–East Asian influences—a pertinent topic in today’s interconnected world—through the work of Tessai, Rengetsu, and modern Japanese painting.
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Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection
Place: Denver Art Museum - Denver, 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy., Colorado, USA
Date: Nov 13, 2022 to Jul 16, 2023
Detail: Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection takes a nuanced approach to questions of artistic voice, gender, and agency through more than 100 works of painting, calligraphy, and ceramics from 1600s to 1900s Japan.

Many of the artworks will be on view for the first time to the public. Her Brush traces the pathways women artists forged for themselves in their pursuit of art and explores the universal human drive of artistic expression as self-realization, while navigating cultural barriers during times marked by strict gender roles and societal regulations. These social restrictions served as both impediment and impetus to women pursuing artmaking in Japan at the time.

Her Brush showcases works by renowned artists such as Kiyohara Yukinobu 清原雪信 (1643–1682), Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月 (1791–1875), and Okuhara Seiko 奥原晴湖 (1837–1913), as well as relatively unknown yet equally remarkable artists like Ōishi Junkyō 大石順教 (1888–1968), Yamamoto Shōtō 山本緗桃 (1757–1831), and Katō Seiko 加藤青湖 (fl. 1800s). These works bring forward the subjects of autonomy, legacy, and a person’s ownership of their individual story.
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Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India
Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 22, Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, India
Date: Dec 10, 2022 to Jun 11, 2023
Detail: Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India  foregrounds landscapes of India, real and reimagined, as powerful means of examining environmental and social issues concerning us all. Through still and moving image, seriality, and portraiture, five leading contemporary artists explore rapidly changing natural and built environments in India, from riverbanks, ancient forests, and city streets to surreal symbolic settings.

Ravi Agarwal and Atul Bhalla convey the profound importance of water in human life, highlighting enduring social and cultural connections to the sacred yet endangered Yamuna River. Gigi Scaria and Ketaki Sheth produce dynamic and disorienting portrayals of life in New Delhi and Mumbai. Sheba Chhachhi composes a provocative self-portrait that evokes a profound relationship to place as well as to her own focus on the representation of women in visual culture. Dynamic and varied in scale, format, and content, Unstill Waters also celebrates the spectacular recent gift of Sunanda and Umesh Gaur, which significantly expands the museum’s holdings of South Asian photography.
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Life After: The Bardo
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Mar 17, 2023 to Jan 14, 2024
Detail: Life After: The Bardo is an installation that invites visitors to lay down and listen to the excerpts from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, one of the most widely distributed forms of bardo-related ritual texts.

Beliefs about death and the afterlife vary among Tibetan Buddhist lineages, but all the traditions share in the concept of the bardo, an intermediate state between death and rebirth. The texts read aloud during funerary rituals describe the deceased’s journey through three bardos. They detail the colors, lights, sounds, and deities the deceased will encounter while guiding them toward a favorable rebirth. By recognizing these visions as manifestations of reality, one may escape the cycle of rebirth and achieve liberation.

Life After: The Bardo features recitations of two bardo ritual texts, including a full recitation of an English translation of Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo. This installation is presented in conjunction with the Rubin Museum’s yearlong thematic focus on Life After, exploring moments of change that propel us into the unknown and compel us to imagine what comes next.
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Death Is Not the End
Place: The Rubin Museum of Art - New York, 150 West 17th St., USA
Date: Mar 17, 2023 to Jan 15, 2024
Detail: Death Is Not the End is a cross-cultural exhibition that explores notions of death and afterlife through the art of Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity. During a time of great global turmoil, loss, and uncertainty, the exhibition invites contemplation of the universal human condition of impermanence and the desire to continue to exist.

The exhibition features prints, oil paintings, bone ornaments, thangka paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and ritual items, and brings together 58 objects spanning 12 centuries from the Rubin Museum’s collection alongside artworks on loan from private collections and major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library and Museum, Museum aan de Stroom in Antwerp, Wellcome Collection in London, Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City, San Antonio Museum of Art, and more.

The exhibition is organized around three major themes: the Human Condition, or the shared understanding of our mortality in this world; States In-Between, or the concepts of limbo, purgatory, and bardo; and (After)life, focusing on resurrection, ideas of transformation, and heaven.

Curated by Elena Pakhoutova
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Transcendent Clay / Kondo: A Century of Japanese Ceramic Art
Place: Lowe Art Museum/University of Miami - Miami, 1301 Stanford Drive, Florida, USA
Date: Mar 23, 2023 to Sep 24, 2023
Detail: This exhibition features works by three generations of the Kyoto-based Kondo ceramic dynasty. Ranging from traditional porcelain vessels to meditative sculptures cast from the artist’s body and accented with a “silver mist” glaze, this compelling exhibition serves as a bridge between the past and the present as well as meditation on the future of Japanese ceramics.

This exhibition was curated by Joe Earle and organized by the Lowe Art Museum. Joe Earle was the Director of Japan Society Gallery in New York until 2012 and has held leadership positions in Asian art departments at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Ay-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell
Place: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | Gallery 25, Smithsonian Institution - Washington, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, USA
Date: Mar 25, 2023 to Sep 10, 2023
Detail: Immerse yourself in Ay-Ō’s world of sensory experience, exploration, and fun.

Born in 1931, the Japanese artist Ay-Ō (pronounced “eye-oh”) moved to New York in 1958, where he would soon become a member of the avant-garde group of artists, poets, and performers known as Fluxus. As a part of Fluxus, Ay-Ō produced many works that focus on tactile experiences, such as the Finger Boxes: wooden boxes with hidden compartments that contain objects participants can only touch, not see. It was around this time that Ay-Ō became known internationally as the “Rainbow Artist,” as he has felt compelled to produce rainbow works since the mid-1960s—a compulsion he describes as his own “rainbow hell” (niji no jigoku).

By encompassing anything and everything within the visible light spectrum, Ay-Ō’s rainbow works are an exploration into visuality that is complementary to his tactile works. Driven by his vibrant sense of humor and curiosity, Ay-Ō’s greatest output has been in rainbow-hued silkscreen prints that cover a wide range of subjects, from treatments of the human body and the animal kingdom to abstract compositions and extending to rainbow reinterpretations of other artists’ works.

Featuring over eighty artworks from the collections of the National Museum of Asian Art as well as several other US institutions, Ay-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell is the first ever exhibition dedicated to the artist’s work at a museum in the United States. The accompanying catalogue includes a message from Ay-Ō and an illustrated essay from his longtime printer Sukeda Kenryō (b. 1941), in addition to a biographical essay and extended catalogue entries that explore Ay-Ō’s legacy and the complexity of his rainbow obsession. The exhibition also features digital interactives that will allow visitors to engage with Ay-Ō’s spirit of playful exploration and optimism.

This exhibition contains material not appropriate for all audiences. Parental discretion is advised.
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Animals in Japanese Art
Place: The Honolulu Museum of Art - Honolulu, 900 South Beretania Street, Hawaii, USA
Date: Mar 30, 2023 to Jul 23, 2023
Detail: Animals in art are rarely just animals. They are often rich in cultural associations that reveal as much about human society as the natural world. From Aesop’s fables to contemporary cartoons, depictions of animals have provided us with a means to step outside ourselves and take a fresh look at the things we normally take for granted.

Japanese art is rich in animal imagery—humorous badgers, mysterious foxes, divine horses, and fearsome lion-dogs animate a variety of treasures in HoMA’s superb collection. An exhibition highlight is the museum’s early copy of the celebrated set of handscroll paintings Frolicking Animals, which was recently loaned to the Tokyo National Museum, where it hung alongside the original twelfth century paintings that inspired it. Frolicking Animals depicts various beasts mimicking humans as they play games, dance, make music, and perform religious ceremonies. Another exquisitely painted and rarely displayed work entitled Stable is a six-panel screen from the Momoyama period depicting horses.

Hanging scrolls, votive panels, and handscrolls explore stories and meanings behind these animals, offering novel—and sometimes humorous—perspectives on human concerns.
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Trailblazer: A Tribute to Toko Shinoda
Place: University of Saint Joseph Museum - West Hartford, 678 Asylum Ave, Connecticut, USA
Date: Mar 31, 2023 to Jun 03, 2023
Detail: An exhibition celebrating the work of Toko Shinoda (1913-2021), a painter and printmaker the New York Times called “one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century.”
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Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art
Place: Asian Art Museum - San Francisco, 200 Larkin St., USA
Date: Mar 31, 2023 to Jul 10, 2023
Detail: A journey for the mind, body, and senses through two millennia of art inspired by dance from South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas.
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Art Deco Lacquer and Textiles from Japan
Place: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Florida, USA
Date: Apr 08, 2023 to Aug 01, 2023
Detail: In the decades between World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), the Art Deco movement emerged as a new global artistic style. Characterized by clean lines and abstract forms evocative of the machine age, Art Deco also responded to modernist art movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism.

In Japan, these developments coincided with rapid modernization and the rise of nationalism. Artists and designers adapted Art Deco aesthetics to suit traditional forms, motifs, and materials, creating a distinctive version of the movement that reflected the local cultural, social, and political concerns. On view are five lacquer objects and three garments that embody the innovative spirit and technical virtuosity of Japanese artists as they sought to reimagine their media for the 20th century.

Art Deco Lacquer and Textiles from Japan will be on display in the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Gallery, April 8– August 1, 2023.
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Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing
Place: Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., USA
Date: Apr 09, 2023 to Jul 16, 2023
Detail: In the work of American artist Sam Francis (1923–1994), Western and Eastern aesthetics engage in a profound intercultural dialogue. Francis first traveled to Japan in 1957, developing a lifelong affinity for Japanese art and culture that influenced his work. His expressive handling of negative space shared pictorial and philosophical affinities with aspects of East Asian aesthetics, particularly the Japanese concept of “ma,” the dynamic between form and non-form. With over 60 works from LACMA’s collection and key lenders, this is the first exhibition to explore the artist’s work in relation to “ma” and other aspects of Japanese aesthetics. It will include works by Francis in the company of historic Japanese works to illustrate stylistic priorities shared by both. Also on view are works of contemporary Japanese artists (many associated with Gutai and Mono-Ha) whom Francis knew from his extensive time in Japan in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Shahidul Alam: Singed But Not Burnt
Place: Wrightwood 659 - Chicago, 659 W. Wrightwood, Illinois, USA
Date: Apr 14, 2023 to Jul 15, 2023
Detail: Shahidul Alam: Singed But Not Burnt, the most comprehensive U.S. survey of the work of Shahidul Alam, renowned Bangladeshi photographer, writer, activist, institution-builder, and a Time magazine Person of the
Year in 2018. With more than 80 black-and-white and color images, Singed But Not Burnt presents the breadth of Alam’s practice and impact throughout his four-decade career.
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Symbiosis | Living Island
Place: Japan House Los Angeles - Los Angeles, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Level 2 & Level 5, California, USA
Date: Apr 15, 2023 to Jul 05, 2023
Detail: Hours:
Mon. – Fri. | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM (PDT)
Sat. – Sun. | 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM (PDT)

Location: JAPAN HOUSE Gallery, Level 2

Fee: Free
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Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond
Place: Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., California, USA
Date: Apr 23, 2023 to Sep 24, 2023
Detail: This exhibition presents 75 works by women artists who were born or live in what can broadly be termed Islamic societies. Frequently perceived as voiceless and invisible, they are neither. Each through her unique vision is fashioning not only her own definition of self but also helping to redefine and empower women everywhere and to challenge still-persistent stereotypes. Their art depicts a breadth of inventively and often ideologically conceived women’s imagery, bearing witness to rapidly shifting political developments and often accelerated social transformations taking place in lands extending from Africa to Western and Central Asia, as well as in diasporic communities. Their powerful narratives are embedded in their art, expressing both personal and universal concerns. Across generations and working in different media, the artists share a common sense of identity not exclusively “Middle Eastern” but certainly female, which is evident in their work.
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Art Lab: Spirits of Time: Netsuke from the Joseph and Elena Kurstin Collection
Place: Lowe Art Museum - Coral Gables, 1301 Stanford Drive, Florida, USA
Date: Apr 25, 2023 to Mar 03, 2024
Detail: This year's ArtLab will highlight miniature masterpieces carved from a variety of media and spanning several centuries. This student-curated exhibition will complement works on view in the Lowe's Taplin Gallery for Asian Art as well as Transcendent Clay: Kondo/A Century of Japanese Ceramic Art, opening March 23, 2023. ArtLab students will also spend a week in mid-March in Kyoto, Japan, where they will engage in transnational, transcultural exchange with University of Kyoto students as well as visiting local artists and artisans, museums, and historic sites in person. Through this program, the Lowe truly touches lives and transforms the University of Miami student experience!
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Witness to Wartime: The Painted Diary of Takuichi Fuji
Place: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens - Delray Beach, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Florida, USA
Date: May 06, 2023 to Oct 06, 2023
Detail: Mr. Takuichi (1891-1964) bore witness to his life in America and to his experiences during World War II with a remarkably comprehensive visual record of this important time in American history. He offers a unique perspective on his generation, shedding light on events that most Americans did not experience, yet whose lessons remain salient today.

Takuichi Fujii was 50 years old when war broke out between the U.S. and Japan. In a climate of increasing fear and racist propaganda, he became one of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the Pacific Coast forced to leave their homes and live in geographically isolated incarceration camps. Confronting such circumstances, Fujii began an illustrated diary that spans the years from his forced removal in May 1942 to the closing of Minidoka in October 1945.

In over 250 ink drawings ranging from public to intimate views, the diary depicts detailed images of the incarceration camps, and the inmates’ daily routines and pastimes. He also produced over 130 watercolors that reiterate and expand upon the diary, augmenting those scenes with many new views, as well as other aesthetic and formal considerations of painting.
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Buddha: Sage of the Shakya Clan
Place: Asia Society - New York, 725 Park Avenue, USA
Date: Jun 13, 2023 to Aug 27, 2023
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Transformation: Modern Japanese Art
Place: The Honolulu Museum of Art - Honolulu, 900 South Beretania Street, Hawaii, USA
Date: Jul 27, 2023 to Oct 15, 2023
Detail: Inspired by a recent gift of over 125 artworks by noted collector Terry Welch, this exhibition explores the dynamic modern period (1860s–1930s) in Japanese art, when dramatic changes in society were reflected in the arts, resulting in works of stunning vision and technical accomplishment.

As Japan became part of a larger, modernized world, public education and national exhibitions placed the arts within a larger search for a new identity. Artists rediscovered the past, and upon its bedrock they built a road into the future. Painting, which was traditionally recognized as the highest form of expression, became the vehicle for the new national style of Nihonga, literally “Japanese painting.” Artists in other mediums responded in turn, and as painters collaborated with ceramics and lacquer workshops, a broad-based, neoteric aesthetic rich in innovation emerged.

HoMA’s special strengths in modern Japanese art, with an important collection and a ground-breaking exhibition history, make the museum uniquely situated to present an exhibition on this exciting subject. The exhibition features highlights from a recent major gift of 127 modern Japanese paintings, ceramics and lacquerwares donated by prominent collector Terry Welch. Paintings and objects by artists ranging from early leaders in the modernization of art education, to superstars of the national exhibitions, to independent eccentrics demonstrate the diversity of voices that reinvented the arts with a bold new vision toward the future at the turn of the 20th century.
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Beguiling Beni: Safflower Red in Japanese Fashion
Place: The Victoria & Albert Museum - London, Cromwell Rd, United Kingdom
Date: Jun 02, 2022 to Mar 31, 2024
Detail: The Japanese dye 'beni', made from safflower petals, produces red hues and an iridescent green. This display reveals its many uses in fashion, from heel-less shoes by Noritaka Tatehana, to textiles, cosmetics and ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
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ACM and Anima Mundi: Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums
Place: Asian Civilisations Museum, Christian Art Gallery, Level 2 - Singapore, 1 Empress PIace, Singapore 179555, Singapore
Date: Oct 01, 2022 to Oct 01, 2023
Detail: From 1 October 2022
Daily, 10am - 7pm
Fridays, 10am - 9pm
Christian Art Gallery, Level 2
Asian Civilisations Museum

Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) welcomes a selection of Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums in Rome, in its latest rotation of the Christian Art Gallery. Drawn from the Anima Mundi (meaning "Soul of the World"), these are little-known treasures of Christian art made in Asia.

The public will be able to view up-close how the Catholic Church was able to integrate traditional Asian elements into its art. These intricate objects reveal the ingenuity of Asian artisans and craftsmen, who were able to adapt their work to incorporate foreign aesthetics and ideas that made them more appealing to local audiences. The artistic and cultural exchanges expressed through these works demonstrate how art can foster meaningful dialogue among religions and cultures.

These beautiful creations complement the existing display containing masterpieces from Singapore's National Collection, reminding us of the history of religious harmony and tolerance amid diverse faiths around the world. ACM and Anima Mundi are one of the few museums that have dedicated a permanent space to presenting Christian works of art made in Asia, which tell important stories of love, diversity, and resilience.

ACM and Anima Mundi: Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums is a part of ACM's year-long series of programmes and gallery rotations in commemoration of its 25th anniversary, dedicated to the cross-cultural connections and shared heritage of Singapore and the region. Objects in this collaboration will be available for public viewing for a period of one year

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Textile Masters to the World: The global desire for Indian cloth
Place: Asian Civilisations Museum - Singapore, 1 Empress Pl, Singapore 179555, Singapore
Date: Mar 24, 2023 to Jan 24, 2025
Detail: From 24 March 2023
Daily, 10am - 7pm | Fridays, 10am - 9pm
Asian Civilisations Museum, Level 3, Fashion and Textiles Gallery

The Asian Civilisations Museum presents Textile Masters to the World: The global desire for Indian cloth with a selection of exquisite garments and textiles at its Fashion and Textiles Gallery. Featuring 27 pieces from the National Collection and loans, the exhibition spotlights the historic global impact of textile production in India, and its role as evidence of trade and cultural exchange between India and regions such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe from the fourteenth to nineteenth century. From fashion and furnishing, to gift exchange and heirlooms, visitors can marvel at the artistry and craftsmanship of early textile masters, and discover how Indian textiles influenced local designs, materials and fashions wherever they were traded.
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Civilisations Brussels Art Fair
Place: Brussels Sablon Area - Brussels, Belgium
Date: Jun 07, 2023 to Jun 11, 2023
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Safety in Numbers
Place: Online: Kaikodo LLC - The Big Island, 27-760 Old Onomea Road, Hawaii, USA
Date: Mar 16, 2023 to May 31, 2023
Detail: Online exhibition.
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Tales of Tea: The Art and Story of Modern Japanese Tea Ware
Place: Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. - New York, 18 East 64th Street, Ste. 1F, USA
Date: Jun 05, 2023 to Jul 05, 2023
Detail: Our upcoming summer show prompts us to gaze upon and read the stories of the cultures of Tea in Japan and in the West. How can we outline the relationship between the twofold categories: traditional/contemporary, form/function, East/West in the context of ceramic Kogei?
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Date: Jun 07, 2023
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