10 July 2013
Hidden Pleasures, Public Lives: Introduction to Japanese Prints This exciting new course on Japanese art will be offered at the British Museum and Birkbeck in autumn 2013. Lectures will be taught by Dr Monika Hinkel, expert in Japanese prints, and contributor to the catalogue of the forthcoming British Museum exhibition, Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese
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Former Daiwa Scholar Carl Randall’s signed, limited edition hardback catalogue, Japan Portraits, is available for purchase at the Hayward Gallery giftshop, Southbank Centre, or through Carl’s website.
Read on28 June 2013
An exhibition of traditional and innovative maki-e artworks by Shokan Matsuda and some of his followers will be held in the Old College Library at the Chelsea College of Art and Design from 4th-20th July. Matsuda is a renowned Japanese maki-e lacquer artisan who uses both traditional and experimental approaches to apply maki-e to everyday
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The current Jiro Takamatsu exhibition at the Stephen Friedman Gallery celebrates the influential post-war artist, theorist and teacher with the first solo showcasing of his works which includes both his acclaimed Shadow Paintings series and other less well-known pieces such as his installation sketches. The Shadow Paintings are a series of shadow images which are so
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The current exhibition at Hauser&Wirth gallery in London showcases an excellent selection of Takesada Matsutani’s works both old and new, familiar and never before seen.
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From 11 June-20 July 2013, the Stephen Friedman Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of the works of Jiro Takamatsu, a celebrated Japanese artist.
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Hauser and Wirth gallery is exhibiting the works of Takesada Matsutani in A Matrix until 27 July.
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Tomoko Yoneda, a Japanese photographer from Akashi and now residing in London, has featured in many exhibitions all over the world from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to La Maison Européene de la Photographe in Paris.
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Pip Dickens, a former exhibitor at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, will be showcasing her pieces in the Screen exhibition at the Rugby Art Galley & Museum from 29 June-31 August 2013.
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The work of former Daiwa Scholar Dr Carl Randall, winner of the 2012 BP Travel Award, will also be included in this year’s BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, in an exhibition titled In the footsteps of Hiroshige: Portraits of Modern Japan. The exhibition will run from 20 June until 15 September 2013.
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