Year: 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiN0CiMXhhA Celebrating JASA’s 50th Anniversary, this lecture was presented by Dr. Rachel Saunders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums., on December 14, 2023. What good is art history in our era of climate catastrophe? What productive work can the study of Japanese art do in the ground between care of the planet and visual art? Researching, exhibiting, conserving, and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x071jPQH4Ag Celebrating JASA’s 50th Anniversary, this lecture was presented on November 8, 2023, and features three curators who offer their perspectives on Meiji art and culture. The art of the Meiji era (1868–1912) was the first to be consciously collected as “contemporary Japanese art” in the United States. In this event, Takurō Tsunoda (curator at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History), in conversation with…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEne53dY9c This special JASA live webinar presented on September 11, 2023, and focuses on The Montgomery Collection, widely regarded as the largest and finest collection of mingei (Japanese folk art) outside of Japan. Luigi Zeni, guest curator for the Dallas-based Crow Museum of Asian Art, will discuss the collection with Swiss collector Jeffrey Montgomery, who has spent over 40 years acquiring approximately 1,100 works of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOYmjcPSww In this May 9, 2023, presentation, Princeton University Professor Thomas Hare speaks about the origins of noh theater in Japan and, in particular, about its material culture. Noh drama has a 700-year history of continuous performances, and it has, in that time, developed a detailed body of conventions of performance that specify not only text, music and dance, but also the material culture of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6zTTAMQ4sw This lecture from March 19, 2023, features Felice Fischer, curator emerita, and her successor Xiaojin Wu, Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in conversation about highlights of the museum’s Japanese collections. They each present five significant art works from the PMA collection and preview a “wish list” item in their discussion. View more lecture recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uRaxzbFbJw In our February 7, 2023 Webinar, scholar Ramona Handel-Bajema, author of Art Across Borders: Japanese Artists in the United States before World War II (MerwinAsia Publishers, 2021), discussed the wave of Japanese artists who contributed to the establishment of American Modernism, challenged notions of a Japanese aesthetic and flourished in a nation that was at times hostile and other times welcoming. In her book, Dr. Handel-Bajema…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO1yxndxZ5s In this January 18, 2023, JASA lecture, Einor K. Cervone, PhD, Associate Curator of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum, reexamines narratives of lacquer development in the East Asian region, as explored in the exhibition The Five Directions: Lacquer through East Asia, which opened December 18, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). What was it about lacquer that made it…