|
|
|
March 28, 2009
Check out our pictures from the KRAZY! Cosplay Party! Thanks to all the cosplayers!
Topics:
Art, Popular Culture
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The Japan Society in collaboration with the Public Art Fund presented Little Boy, a major exhibition at the Japan Society Gallery and an installation of artworks in New York City’s public spaces and mass transit system in Spring 2005.
Topics:
Popular Culture, History
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Twenty-three high school students participated in an 11-day workshop on Japanese cuisine and culture, during which they examined the multifaceted history of Japanese cuisine.
Topics:
Cinema
Thursday, May 29, 2008
With over 400 Japanese films released in Japan last year, box-office revenue for domestic films exceeded that of foreign films for the first time in 21 years. With such an exciting demand for new films and directors, JAPAN CUTS brings a sizable slice of Japan’s dynamic contemporary film culture to New York City.
Topics:
Art
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
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
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
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
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
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.
|
|
