Month: April 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFpjc-GNyN8 The connection between fashion and economy is often indicated by frequent changes in style. Extensive textile production, development of new techniques, designs of novel patterns, the regular publication of woodblock-printed pattern books were amongst the sectors of economy devoted to the ever-changing supply of garments in early modern Japan. In this April 21, 2021, presentation, Monika Bincsik, PhD, Diane and Arthur Abbey Associate Curator…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSNcJNEu6XI On April 6, 2021, John Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduced this special three-month-only rotation (March 8–May 31) in the Print Room (Gallery 231) in the Arts of Japan Galleries. The exhibition highlights masterworks of ukiyo-e prints from the collection of Florida-based collector Lee E. Dirks, who is interviewed in Impressions 42, Part One. The…