Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), The Village of Yase (Yase no sato 八瀬之里), from the series “Famous Views of Kyoto” (Kyōto meisho no uchi 京都名所之内) (detail), ca. 1834 [Tenpō 5], woodblock print (ōban yoko-e format), ink and color on paper, 8 7/16 x 13 3/16 in. (21.5 x 33.5 cm), mat: 14 3/16 x 19 5/8 in. (36.1 x 49.9 cm); Courtesy Princeton University Art Museum

New Horizons for Japanese Art at the Princeton University Art Museum
December 17, 2024 at 5pm EST
Zoom Webinar

JASA is pleased to present New Horizons for Japanese Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, a live Zoom webinar for their annual holiday program for JASA members.

Reopening in fall 2025 after a multi-year closure, the new Princeton University Art Museum will feature a suite of galleries devoted to the display of Asian Art. As guest speaker Dr. Kit Brooks notes, “The new Museum—double the size of its previous incarnation—will include over 60,000 square feet of gallery space. One of the seven ‘pavilions’ will be devoted to Asian Art, drawing from a collection well known for its Chinese paintings and calligraphy. The Japanese collection has been growing since the establishment of the Museum in the 1880s, ranging from Neolithic to contemporary, and includes sculpture, paintings, prints, and ceramics.”

Dr. Brooks is Curator of Asian Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. Earning their PhD from Harvard University (2017), they previously held positions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and the British Museum. Their recent projects include the exhibitions Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints (2024) and Ay-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell (2023), the first U.S. museum exhibition dedicated to the psychedelic Japanese Fluxus artist Ay-Ō (b. 1931).

To learn more and register, click here.