RECENT ZOOM WEBINARS NOW ONLINE
In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan
Monday, June 9, 2025 at 5pm (EST)
Online
For those who missed our June 6 webinar—a talk by Alicia Volk, Professor of Japanese Art at the University of Maryland, on her new book, In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan—we have posted the video on our site.
This publication unearths an immensely creative yet almost entirely overlooked body of Japanese art. Introducing captivating but little-known paintings, prints, and sculpture made during the US occupation (1945-1952), her talk will show how the forgotten art of a country in the shadow of the Japanese and American empires variously accommodated and resisted the Cold War global realignment that followed on the heels of World War II.
To watch the lecture , click here.
The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 5pm (ET)
Online
On May 20, 2025, John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gave an overview of the themes covered in the recently published book The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting, co-authored with Tim T. Zhang, research associate in the Department of Asian Art. This volume and the exhibition it accompanies—co-curated with Mr. Zhang and Monika Bincsik, Diane and Arthur Abbey Curator of Japanese Decorative Arts—serve to commemorate the extraordinary gift of more than 300 Japanese paintings and calligraphies to The Met from Seattle-based collectors Mary and Cheney Cowles.
The five primary areas addressed in the book include: kana calligraphy of the 11th to 14th centuries; bokuseki, or Zen monks’ calligraphies of medieval times; courtly styles of calligraphy and paintings of the early modern period; Ōbaku Zen calligraphy of the 17th century; and literati painting of the 18th and 19th centuries. By way of background, please see the in-depth interview with Cheney Cowles published in Impressions 41 (2020), “Cheney Cowles: A Seattle Collector Makes a Statement.”
To watch the lecture , click here.
ASIA WEEK NEW YORK EVENT NOW ONLINE
Birds, Diplomacy and Painting in 16th-Century Japan
Friday, March 14, 2025 from 5-6pm (EST)
Japan Society Auditorium, 333 E. 47th St.
In-person and Online (kindly register in advance)
If you missed our recent Asia Week New York event, you can now watch the full talk online! Dr. Matthew McKelway—Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University—delivered a captivating lecture titled Birds, Diplomacy, and Painting in 16th-Century Japan.
To watch the lecture, click here.
More Online Lecture Videos
If you missed any of our insightful lectures, you can catch up anytime by watching them on our YouTube channel. Explore a wealth of knowledge from expert speakers, engaging discussions, and exclusive presentations—all available at your convenience!
To view past lectures, click here.
Help Us Celebrate 50 Years of JASA!
The exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, celebrating 50 years of the Japanese Art Society of America, opened at Asia Society Museum, New York, on October 3, 2023. One review called Meiji Modern a “perfect exhibition,” engaging both scholars and non-specialist visitors who are “thrilled to discover beautiful art they didn’t know and to learn its history in labels that are both clear and serious.”
JASA’s beautiful 272-page full-color catalog for the exhibition (cover above) takes a fresh look at the art of the Meiji period (1868-1912) through a selection of approximately 200 objects drawn from public and private collections across the United States, including newly discovered prints, photographs, textiles, paintings, and craft objects. Copies of the catalog can be ordered through the JASA Store or our online Publications Order Form.
To learn more about the catalog, click here. To order a copy online, click here.
