Annual Delaware Antiques Show, Ralph M. Chait Galleries
November 11-13, 2022
Preview: November 10, 5-9pm
Chase Center on the Riverfront
Wilmington, Delaware

Show Hours:
Preview: 5-9pm
Days of Show: 11am-6pm
(5pm on final day)

Chait Galleries will be bringing a wonderful variety of fine Chinese porcelain, works of art, and export silver. Their Booth, No. 31, is located near the center of the main exhibition room.

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R: Emi Anrakuji, Untitled 11, early 2000s, pigment print on an early 20th-century postcard,
5 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. (13.8 x 8.9 cm.), Series: ehagaki

Paris Photo, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA
Experimental Self-Portraits: Emi Anrakuji and Melissa Shook
Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, November 8-13, 2022

MIYAKO YOSHINAGA introduces uniquely intimate and personal projects by two female photographers who explored their identity in self-portraitures: Emi Anrakuji and Melissa Shook.

In the early 2000s, while recovering from her long illness, Emi Anrakuji (born 1963) began taking elusive photos of herself indoors/outdoors interacting with the props which she often made by hand. She printed these self-portraits over vintage picture postcards that were collected by her grandfather, a wine importer in Tokyo, at the turn of the last century. Her grandfather, who died before she was born, traveled frequently to Europe and brought back postcards from Italy, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Belgium, among other places, of ruins, buildings, and other artifacts that become the backdrops for Anrakuji's own self-portraits.

In the early 1970s, Melissa Shook (1939-2020) was a single mother with a fragmented identity as she suffered from the post-traumatic amnesia of her childhood (she lost her mother at age 12). As photography became Shook’s means of keeping her own memory intact for her own daughter, Shook made experimental daily self-portraits in her downtown New York apartment. In front of the camera, she posed clothed or naked, performed, gestured, and made faces over a period of eight months until she felt too self-conscious, and her daughter took over the project by naturally playing with the camera. Shook was a pioneer who explored the female body, motherhood, and the dynamics of interracial families in photography with her honest and inquisitive style.

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Chashitsu – Japanese Tea Room, Onishi Gallery
November 9-19, 2022
Tea Ceremony & Lecture: Thursday November 10, 4-5:30pm

Onishi Gallery is proud to present Chashitsu – Japanese Tea Room –a celebration of Japanese art and culture, tradition intertwining contemporary influence. This unique exhibition focuses on ceramic and metal work pieces specifically used for Japanese Tea Ceremony traditions. This exhibition will be introduced by a live Tea Ceremony and lecture by certified Tea Master Yoshitsugu Nagano on November 10th from 4-5:30 PM at Onishi Gallery. This special demonstration will bring a table-style Tea Ceremony and lecture on how to use and deeply appreciate the charm of tea ceremony related artworks and utensils created by Onishi Gallery artists.

Onishi Gallery is honored to bring the Tea Ceremony to your home through the works of our esteemed artists in metal, ceramics and glass: Hata Shunsai III (born 1976), Sako Ryuhei (born 1976), Iede Takahiro (born 1962), Hara Satoshi (born 1962), Oshiyama Motoko (born 1957) and Hagino Noriko (born 1949) working in metal; Ohi Chozaemon Toyasai X (born 1927), and Ohi Toshio Chozaemon XI (born 1958), father and son, and Itabashi Hiromi (born 1948) working in ceramics; and Noda Akiko (born 1975), working in glass.

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Spring Morning in the Han Palace (detail), Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign, 1672, twelve-panel kuancai lacquer screen; black lacquer on wood core with carved and pigment and gold filled (kuancai) decoration, Gift of Charles Lang Freer, Freer Gallery of Art, F1906.42a–l

Sneak Peek—Under the Microscope: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
Online lecture, November 8, 12-12:40pm

Constructed in 1672 as a gift for Master Kong, a direct descendant of Confucius, the twelve-panel Chinese lacquer screen Spring Morning in the Han Palace had a long life before being purchased by Charles Lang Freer in 1906 and joining the National Museum of Asian Art’s collections. In this talk, objects conservator Ellen Chase will discuss various aspects of the screen as well as a recently completed, multiyear conservation project partially funded through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. Examination and collaboration by conservators, scientists, and curators revealed multiple ways in which the vulnerabilities and subsequent degradation of the screen are directly related to how it was made and how it was displayed and stored by Freer and its previous owners. The screen will be the subject of an upcoming exhibition in July 2023.

Ellen Chase is objects conservator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. She received her MA in art history and conservation from New York University. Prior to joining the museum in 1999, she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was a fellow at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the British Museum.

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This month JASA offers two informative and engaging programs.

Industry and Institutions: Woodblock Prints and the Meiji Cultural Imagination
Online webinar, Tuesday, November 8, at 5 p.m. EST
Alison J. Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tennessee)
Dr. Miller will provide an introduction to the woodblock prints of the 1870s and 1880s with a focus on how the images worked to create and reinforce social conceptions of Meiji values and ideals.

Philadelphia Visit
In person event, Thursday, November 10, 2-4pm EST
Join this in-person visit to the new exhibition Arthur Tress and the Japanese Illustrated Book and a special presentation of selected ukiyo-e prints from collections held in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Professor Julie Davis will be on hand to talk with JASA members about the project, as well as to show select prints from recent gifts, including works by Kiyonaga, Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and others. The deadline to sign up is November 8.

Note: Advance registration is required for each event, click here.

Bang! K-Toom, Korean Cultural Center NYC
October 31-December 16, 2022

Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY) and the Korean Manhwa Contents Agency, branches of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) of the Republic of Korea are pleased to present the Bang! K-webtoon exhibit introducing major Korean webtoons, to be held from October 31st to December 16th, 2022 at the Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Center New York (460 Park Ave, 6th Floor, New York, NY).

Korean webtoons are gaining huge following worldwide and are often the source materials for TV and film content as well, further fueling the “K-Drama syndrome.” Bang! K-webtoon being held in New York is all the more meaningful as the city is the mecca of pop culture, to present the globally beloved qualities of webtoons. This K-webtoon exhibition in New York, the mecca of world fashion, culture, and art, will provide an opportunity for New Yorkers to experience the charm and global appeal of webtoons as the source of so many of the contents we enjoy.

Mayumi Oda, White Tara

Sarasvati’s Gift: The Art & Life of a Modern Buddhist Revolutionary,
Tibet House US
November 4, 2022-February 10, 2023
Opening reception: November 4, 6-8pm

Known as the “Matisse of Japan,” Mayumi Oda is a painter, environmental activist, and Buddhist practitioner whose life reflects both the brilliance and shadows of modernity. Sarasvati’s Gift explores her tremendous artistic talent and inspiration drawn from her Buddhist practice and her commitment to healing the planet.

Sarasvati’s Gift, Mayumi Oda’s great gift—how wonderful to receive it in this beautiful, heartfelt, honest book. Sarasvati, the goddess of art, the Lady of the River of Beauty, is the cleansing divine flow of the waters of truth and beauty, and she emanates to heal and cleanse our stressed-out lives on our stricken planet through the undaunted art and golden heart of Mayumi Oda.” — Robert A.F. Thurman

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Found in Translation: Explorations by 8 Contemporary Artists,
Nelson-Atkins Museum
October 8, 2022 – August 20, 2023

We often hear of the risks of losing meaning in translation. But visual artists are skilled at converting ideas and questions into art. Found in Translation: Explorations by 8 Contemporary Artists reveals the richness and nuance that can be discovered through this process of change and transformation.

The art in Found in Translation is informed but not defined by artists’ individual experiences with immigration from places across Asia to the Kansas City region. It reflects their perspectives on the world and their places in it, shaped through a range of styles and media. These eight artists use their practices to explore evolving personal questions tied to place, memory, relationships, and other complex topics.

Found in Translation is the second exhibition in the Nelson-Atkins initiative KC Art Now, which celebrates the talent of local artists.

ARTISTS:
Heinrich Toh (born Singapore)
Hong Chun Zhang (born Shenyang, China)
Hye Young Shin (born South Korea)
Kathy Liao (Taiwanese American)
Noriko Ebersole (born Gumma Prefecture, Japan)
Priya Suresh Kambli (born Solapur, India)
Shreepad Narayan Joglekar (born Mumbai, India)
Yoonmi Nam (born Seoul, South Korea)

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In Conversation: The History of the Dungarpur Thrones
Online event: November 5, 2022, 11am CDT
Join the conversation as curator Kimberly Masteller and the London-based silver expert Wynyard Wilkinson discuss the history and artistry of the silver thrones of Dungarpur, India in this online event. This program supports the current exhibition Silver Splendor: Conserving the the Royal Thrones of Dungarpur, India.

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Gold Lacquer Tea Caddy with Autumn Leaves, maki-e gold lacquer, 1990s, 3 x 3 x 3 in. (7.7 x 7.4 x 7.4 cm)

Golden Treasures: Japanese Gold Lacquer Boxes, Thomsen Gallery
November 4-December 16, 2022
Opening reception: November 3, 5-7pm

Thomsen Gallery is delighted to open their annual gallery exhibition of Japanese gold lacquer boxes dating from the 18th century to the present.

The exhibition features exceptional works with designs in maki-e, which literally means “sprinkled pictures” and refers to the technique of sprinkling powders of gold and silver onto wet lacquer, a uniquely Japanese tradition that developed in the Heian Period (794–1185).

Dreaming in Mino: The Art of Oribe & Shino, Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.
Exhibition dates: November 1–December 15, 2022

Dai Ichi Arts is delighted to present the Winter group exhibition Dreaming in Mino: The Art of Oribe & Shino, which explores the work of modern and contemporary artists who practice in these two beloved styles of Japanese pottery from Mino: Oribe and Shino yaki.

Heralded for its patches of copper green, its variety of colorful gradations that the glaze type permits, and the playful decorations that are often employed, Oribe ware is an indispensable part of any Japanese modern art collection. The pioneering experimental spirit of Oribe lives on in modern ceramics in the work of the artists and potters featured in our winter selection, who are all at the forefront of carrying the tradition and spirit of Oribe into the future.

Shino-yaki was first fired during the Momoyama era (1568-1603) at kilns in Mino (present-day Gifu). Usually fashioned in stoneware, it is characterized by a thick yet porous and viscous glaze. Traditionally fired in anagama kilns, Shino-yaki can assume a dramatic appearance with a stark contrast between colors, or subtle, muted tones of white gradation. Modern artists take on this traditional glaze and play with its opacity, for the silica in the glaze may oxidize differently and produce different degrees of translucency. This exhibition presents the various types of Shino-yaki by contemporary artists and ranges from various shades of blue-gray, to a fiery rust-red to a clear, pure white.

A full online exhibition catalog is available on Dai Ichi's website, click here.