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On Saturday, June 21, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and the McAninch Arts Center are celebrating this summer’s must-see ...
Through stylised landscapes, scenes of everyday life and fantastical visions, Hokusai laid the foundations for a modern graphic touch still found in contemporary art far beyond the Nipponese shores.
The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through ...
Though insight into the history of Japanese art-making and the trajectory of Hokusai’s career can be found in any number of his works, Under the Wave off Kanagawa has continued to capture the ...
Katsushika Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa ... he put together a world-class collection of Japanese and Chinese art that now numbers more than 15,000 objects. Miyagawa Choshun’s ...
It can be easy to dismiss popular culture as trite and inconsequential. Superhero movies, fantasy television shows, romance ...
With no solid object of fixed colour against which to correlate, "blue" has historically had the capacity to range loosely over the colour spectrum. In the case of Japan, "ao" denoted a range of blue ...
Come and get crafty at the library. On June 20 and Aug. 15 at 2 p.m., there will be a different craft suitable for beginners ...
Today, the atmosphere of the Paris of the Roaring Twenties lives on in the beautiful woodwork and magnificent Art Deco stained-glass windows, inspired by a print depicting the Kanagawa Wave by ...