Courtesy Fu Qiumeng Fine Art

Transcultural Dialogues: The Journey of East Asian Art to the West
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 18th, 5-8pm
Rotations: July 11-August 10 and August 13-September 14

Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is delighted to open Transcultural Dialogues: The Journey of East Asian Art to the West, a summer exhibition that explores the artistic evolution of East Asian traditions as they spread to the Western art milieu, focusing on the exchange and interaction of visual language and conceptual frameworks between traditional ink art and modern American art.

Presented in two rotations, Transcultural Dialogues showcases works by more than 15 artists, including classical and modern masters Bada Shanren (1626-1705), Qi Baishi (1864-1957) and C.C. Wang (1907-2003), alongside contemporary artists such as Michael Cherney, whose artist language bridges the gap between tradition and the present offering reflections on identity, cultural exchange and the ongoing dialogue between East and West.

This exhibition is in collaboration with Hollis Taggart Gallery in Chelsea with each gallery presenting complimentary shows – one uptown and one downtown. While they will be showing Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary, Fu Qiumeng is primarily focused on Chinese art spanning from the early 17th through the 20th centuries and into contemporary times, highlighting the early modernity and abstract quality of traditional ink masters alongside the reinterpretation of literati painting by diasporic Chinese artists who engaged with American Abstract Expressionism and explored notions of abstraction.

The exhibit is on view now, but be sure to join their reception next Thursday evening on July 18th!

To learn more, click here.

Courtesy Ippodo Gallery

We are delighted to showcase Ippodo Gallery for this week’s Gallery Spotlight.  Located on New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood, the gallery was first founded in Tokyo in 1996 and opened stateside in 2008.  Ippodo Gallery is a cultural bridge to Japan’s living master artists and presents fine handcrafted and rare works created using traditional materials and methods. Each piece selected embodies Japanese aesthetic sensitivity that is born of a spiritual bond with nature. Ippodo’s exhibition program features unique objects – fine ceramics, lacquerware, metal crafts, sculpture, paintings, and works on paper – that celebrate human invention, the natural world, and sublime beauty.

Their recent exhibition during Asia Week this March, Cosmic Sound: Master Paintings by Ken Matsubara, was such a success that works from the show entered the respected permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art.

Ippodo Gallery’s forthcoming Fall exhibition will continue to celebrate innovative and boundary-pushing Japanese artists with a solo presentation of Yukiya Izumita’s ceramics.  Expanding Earth: New Works by Yukiya Izumita will feature the artist’s latest laminate-layered sculptures, flat-folded vases, and tea bowls reminiscent of the rural seascape of the Tohoku region of north-east Japan. They welcome you to the exhibition opening on September 12th and look forward to your visit!

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Installation view, teamLab: The World of Irreversible Change, Courtesy San Antonio Museum of Art

Lecture: teamLab: Collectivity, Chance, and the Fabric of Urban Japan with Nina Horisaki-Christens
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
6:00 –7:00pm
John L. Santikos Auditorium
Ticket Price: $5.00
Ticket Price Members: Free

On the occasion of San Antonio Museum of Art’s Spring exhibition, The World of Irreversible Change where the digital artwork by international art collective teamLab is presented alongside a seventeenth-century Japanese screen from SAMA’s collection, they are pleased to hold a fascinating lecture about the exhibit with art historian Nina Horisaki-Christens.

Dr. Horisaki-Christens will explore the background of The World of Irreversible Change, teamLab’s digital, animated artwork reminiscent of historic Japanese folding screens depicting bustling cityscapes. The discussion will position the artwork within the Japanese contemporary art scene, the history of technology-based artistic experiments, and rhetorics of chance and change in Japanese art.

Nina Horisaki-Christens is a 2023-24 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute and holds a PhD from the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the intersection of art, media, urbanism, translation, and social engagement in Japan, Asia, and the Asian diaspora.

To register in person, click here.

To register for the livestream, click here.

To learn more and watch teamLab’s artwork in action, click here.

Courtesy The Rubin Museum of Art

West Side Fest
July 12 – 14, 2024
The Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street

Visit The Rubin Museum of Art for this summer’s West Side Fest, a celebration of arts and culture on the West Side of Manhattan. Enjoy exhibition tours, artmaking workshops, and live music performances throughout the museum all weekend long!

Schedule is as follows:

Friday, July 12

6-10pm: K2 Friday Night – Enjoy free admission, cocktails, DJs from the Rāginī Festival, and more!
7:15pm: Guided exhibition tour
7-8pm: Brooklyn Raga Massive – Live performance featuring Indian classical music by musicians from the Brooklyn Maga Massive collective. Tickets = $28

Sat, July 13
11am–5pm: Free Admission to all galleries, including the 20th-anniversary exhibition Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now, featuring new commissions with objects from the Rubin’s collection
2pm & 3pm: Free 30 minute guided Exhibition Tours of the museum-wide exhibition Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now

Sun, July 14
1–3pm: Family Sunday with Free artmaking workshops for families

The West Side Cultural Network (WSCN) is a group of more than 20 museums, parks, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions along the West Side of Manhattan. WSCN aims to ensure New Yorkers and visitors alike know they have access to the myriad, dynamic cultural offerings along the Hudson River and the adjoining neighborhoods.

To learn more about the event, click here.

To learn more about The Rubin Museum of Art, click here.

 

 

The Great Elephant Migration: A Coexistence Story, Courtesy The Preservation Society of Newport County

Happy 4th of July! On our Nation’s Birthday, why not celebrate with a trip to one of our Asia Week New York Member Museums? Below is a list of those open today with summer exhibitions and events not to be missed!

In New York City:

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858), Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), no. 30 from 100 Famous Views of Edo, 11th month of 1857. Woodblock print, 14 3/16 × 9 1/4 in. (36 × 23.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.30. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Brooklyn Museum
Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)
Closing August 4, 2024 

For the first time in twenty-four years, Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo—one of the Brooklyn Museum’s greatest treasures—returns to public display. Complemented by artist Takashi Murakami’s own paintings in response to these master prints, along with objects drawn from the Museum’s collection, this is the last month to explore this unique exhibition. Also mark your calendars for their upcoming talks and print workshop.

To learn more, click here.

Marquee: Detail of “Universal Gateway,” Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra, Japan, Kamakura Period (1185–1333), dated 1257. Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1953.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art
Closing July 14, 2024 

Closing next Sunday, the 14th, this exhibition drawn largely from The Met’s renowned collection of Japanese art, explores the twin themes of anxiety and hope, with a focus on the human stories in and around art and art making. Also be sure to check out their many other outstanding exhibits and displays of Asian art throughout the museum.

To learn about them all, click here.

Green Tara (detail), 18th c., Tibet, pigments on cloth, 46 1/4 x 30 5/8 in., Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin

The Rubin Museum of Art
Exhibitions on view through October 6, 2024 

Partake in all the groundbreaking exhibitions and events this summer and early Fall before The Rubin closes their physical doors on October 6th to transition into a global museum model. Learn about Himalayan art through their current shows such as Gateway to Himalayan Art and Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now, with new commissions, some site-specific, and existing works juxtaposed with objects from the Museum’s collection, inviting new ways of encountering traditional Himalayan art.

To learn more, click here.

Around the Country:

Yoshida Chizuko, Valley of Butterflies (Tanima no cho), 1979, Gift of Chizuko, Takasuke, and Ayomi Yoshida, The Art Institute Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago
A Sign of Things to Come: Prints by Japanese Women Artists after 1950
Closing July 15, 2024 

There’s still time to catch this remarkable exhibit focusing on female printmakers during the 1950’s. After World War II, women artists were drawn to the new sōsaku hanga (creative print) movement, whose adherents approached printmaking as a form of artistic expression. They came together and formed Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, an association that exhibited together for about 10 years. Its members included Iwami Reika and Yoshida Chizuko, both of whom are well-known today and appear in this exhibition.

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Barrel-Shaped Bottle with Peony Motif 모란무늬 장군(액체를 담는 그릇). Korea, 1400s, Joseon dynasty (1392–1897). Buncheong with inlaid and stamped design. 8.75 × 6.25 in. dia. (22.2 × 15.9 cm dia.), National Museum of Korea: Bequest of Lee Kun-Hee, 2021. © National Museum of Korea

Denver Art Museum
Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics
Ongoing

Korean Buncheong ceramics are renowned for their white slip and adorned with diverse surface decorative techniques. This exhibition,  co-organized with the National Museum of Korea (NMK), features these exquisite ceramics from the 15th century to today and is accompanied by 20th and 21st century paintings, as well as 16 drawings by painters. Also stay tuned for their upcoming exhibit, The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama, opening in a few weeks on July 28.

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Landscape (detail), Hosokawa Rinkoku (1782–1842), Japan, Edo period, 1835, handscroll, ink and color on paper, Freer Gallery of Art Collection, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, F2021.4.11a–c

The National Museum of Asian Art
Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980
Closing September 15, 2024 

Located in our Nation’s capital, this Smithsonian museum hosts a fascinating array of exhibits and displays that help deepen our understandings of Asia, the United States, and the world. In addition to the exhibit, Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980, closing this Fall, be sure to check out their many other events and exhibitions on view.

To learn more, click here.

The Great Elephant Migration: A Coexistence Story, The Breakers, The Preservation Society of Newport County

The Preservation Society of Newport County
The Great Elephant Migration: A Coexistence Story
July 3 – September 6, 2024

Twenty-six life-size Indian elephant sculptures parade across the back lawn of The Breakers as part of the first American stop of this traveling exhibition. The Great Elephant Migration is an outdoor art exhibition presented by Elephant Family USA in collaboration with Dodie Kazanjian of Art & Newport and various contemporary artists. The sculptures were created by The Coexistence Collective, a community of 200 indigenous artisans in the Nilgiri Hills of South India and will be available for purchase through The Great Elephant Migration website. Funds raised from sales will benefit non-governmental organizations performing conservation work around the world.

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Installation view, Enduring Legacy: Ancient Art from the Egyptians to the Romans, 3000 B.C. to 600 A.D.

We are delighted to showcase the highly respected London and New York based firm of independent art dealers, Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch Ltd., for this week’s Gallery Spotlight.

As former directors of the Antiquities and Islamic and Indian Art departments at Sotheby’s, London, both Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch bring their wealth of scholarship and connoisseurship to collectors, museums and galleries around the world. They specialize in the art of the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas and South-East Asia, covering works from the Buddhist and Hindu dynasties to the Mughals, with a special emphasis on Indian and Islamic miniature painting and manuscripts, as well as Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Islamic art. Founded in 1998, the gallery continues to exhibit the finest works of their kind and place them in important museum and private collections.

Their latest exhibition, Enduring Legacy: Ancient Art from the Egyptians to the Romans, 3000 B.C. to 600 A.D., brings together a rare group of ancient art, including a group of bronze and pottery antiquities from the Spencer-Churchill collection.  On view now until this Friday, July 5th, Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch warmly invite you to their London gallery at 16 Pall Mall to experience these extraordinary treasures.

To learn more and view the online catalog, click here.

 

 

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849), Beneath the Waves off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, ca. 1831, Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print; blue key block, sheet: 9 5/8 × 14 5/8 in., Frances Gaylord Smith Collection

Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave
On view through Sunday, July 7, 2024
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510

Don’t miss this rare occasion to see one of Yale University Art Gallery’s most recognizable works while it’s on view in their current exhibition Year of the Dragon. Katsushika Hokusai’s well-known woodblock print The Great Wave, along with other light-sensitive works, will only be displayed for the first installment of the show, through this Sunday, July 7th. A new selection will be on view through November 10th, offering repeat visitors another experience of the exhibition.

The Year of the Dragon exhibition (March 15 – November 10, 2024) celebrates this Lunar New Year with a presentation of nearly 30 artworks spanning from the 17th century to the present day. In the West, the dragon has historically been characterized as an evil creature, flying through the air while breathing fire from its mouth, but in the East, the dragon is believed to possess power in the celestial realm and to pour out blessings in the form of rainwater over swirling wind. The objects on view, which are largely drawn from the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, feature dragons on folding screens, other paintings, textiles, ceramics, ivory, and woodblock prints. Taking inspiration from East Asian history, folklore, and myth, these works demonstrate a long, complex, and continuing artistic tradition around this fantastical creature.

To learn more and watch a video of the exhibition, click here.

Courtesy Kapoor Galleries

MASTER BRUSHWORKS
Pema Rinzin x Kapoor Galleries
Opening Reception: Friday, July 5, 6-8:30pm (Kindly RSVP)
34 East 67th Street, 3rd Floor

Kapoor Galleries presents Master Brushworks, showcasing new and previously shown paintings by Brooklyn-based Tibetan artist Pema Rinzin. This will be Rinzin’s fourth solo exhibition in New York and his first with Kapoor Galleries, featuring twelve paintings rendered in ground mineral pigments, sumi ink, and gold.

Throughout a career spanning more than three decades traveling and living in India, Germany, and Japan, Rinzin—a master in the art of traditional Thangka painting—seeks to demonstrate the essence of Tibetan art through his striking contemporary practice. The artist was influenced by Chinese, Korean, and Japanese traditions of brushwork, especially the work of Hokusai, and believes that “master brushwork means you can see depth and color in the black and white of sumi-ink art. If you pay attention to the brushwork of Tibetan art, it is the same. Drawing and brushwork are the essence of Tibetan art.”

Be sure to RSVP here for the opening to view these fascinating paintings by Pema Rinzin.

To view the online exhibition catalog, click here.

Isaku Nakagawa (1899-2000), Cafe – A Cocktail Between Skyscrapers, 1933, woodblock print, 16 x 11.75 in (40.64 x 29.84 cm)

The Art of Japan is excited to share over fifty new acquisitions from their latest trip to Japan, including Yoshitoshi’s late masterpiece, Fujiwara Yasumasa Plays the Flute in Moonlight, 1883; an original Toraji Ishikawa watercolor painting, Bijin and Cat on a Rug, c. 1935; and one of their favorites seen here, a jazz age print for the summer season by a rare artist, Isaku Nakagawa.

To view these superb prints and more on their website, click here.

Nagakura Kenichi (1952-2018), Stardust, 2003, madake bamboo and mixed media, 17.5 x 19 x 16 in.

Nagakura Kenichi: A Retrospective
June 28 – July 20, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, June 28 from 5-7pm
1601 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501

TAI Modern is honored to open the retrospective exhibit of acclaimed bamboo artist Nagakura Kenichi (1952-2018) this summer.

Nagakura visited Santa Fe every other year for nearly two decades, meeting art lovers and collectors at the openings for his nine solo shows at TAI Modern. He and his wife Kayoko made many friends in the process. His tenth solo show would have opened in the summer of 2018 if not for his untimely death that year. Since then, TAI Modern has looked forward to mounting a retrospective exhibition to honor Nagakura’s creative genius, and to also, in a sense, bring him back to his friends in Santa Fe. This June, they can finally give him his tenth solo exhibition.

Nagakura lived a life of profound experimentation, incorporating unconventional materials like bamboo roots, washi paper, and driftwood collected from local shores on daily walks, as well as inventing new techniques that evoked the patina and texture of centuries-old bamboo, bronze, rock, wood, cloth and natural phenomena like nests, webs, and cocoons. First and foremost, he was an artist, and it was through his connection to bamboo that he could express that creative drive.

Showing with TAI Modern since the very start of the gallery’s focus on Japanese bamboo in 1997, Nagakura was the first recipient of the Cotsen Bamboo Prize in 2000 and exhibited internationally throughout his career. This retrospective marks the first time that Nagakura’s paintings will be exhibited to the public.

To view the online exhibition catalog, click here.

To learn more about the exhibit, click here.