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The Genius of Japanese Lacquer: Masterworks by Shibata Zeshin
Topics: Art

The Genius of Japanese Lacquer: Masterworks by Shibata Zeshin

Friday, March 21, 2008 — Sunday, June 15, 2008

Shibata Zeshin (1807–1891) is history’s greatest lacquer artist, recognized worldwide for his exquisitely detailed lacquered boxes, panels, sword mounts, and other objects, as well as scrolls painted in both ink and lacquer.

Topics: Dance

Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks: POOM²

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 7:30 PM
Friday, May 16, 2008, 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 7:30 PM

Dance, live music, video projections and commentary collide in 10 scenes on a red-saturated stage in the middle of a driving rainstorm in POOM².

Topics: Art

Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York

Friday, October 5, 2007 — Sunday, January 13, 2008

Japan Society presents this large-scale group exhibition featuring the work of 33 contemporary Japanese artists who call New York City home, including Yoko Ono, Ushio Shinohara, Kunie Sugiura, Yuken Teruya, and Aya Uekawa.

Topics: Cinema

Monthly Classics
NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS: 1960s Nikkatsu Action Cinema

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Presented for the first time in the U.S. with new digital subtitles, the series explores the golden age of the Nikkatsu studio (Japan's oldest film studio), with eight stylized action films. Influenced by Hollywood and the Nouvelle Vague, these films reflect the Westernization that swept away old values, while teaching an entire generation a new Japanese meaning of cool.

Topics: Art

Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan

This exhibition is a search for new ways to understand Zen communities in medieval Japan as embodied in representations of the Zen "pantheon".

Topics: Theater

Noh & Kyogen in the Park

Traditional Japanese theater forms noh and kyogen performed outdoors in the takigi noh "bonfire noh" style, featuring a forgotten play from the late 16th century, a haunting tale of enduring love from the classical noh repertoire, and an exuberant kyogen piece about a divine hood that renders its wearer invisible.