Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photographs: Mexico, Light and Time in Silence
Nov. 3-Dec. 18 Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002) is one of the key figures in the history of Latin-American photography. He first garnered attention in the late 1920s after the Mexican Revolution, a turbulent time that saw the rise of avant-garde art and the muralism movement, ...
'Leonard Foujita: Art Bridging the East and the West'
Until July 3 Fujita Tsuguharu, more commonly known as Leonard Foujita, is often credited as the artist to bridge the cultures of Japan and France by introducing a new style of painting. The innovative artist blended traditional Japanese painting and inking techniques with modern European ...
At Nagoya City Art Museum, Seizo Tsukamoto has changed his appearance to look like the late Japanese-French painter Tsuguharu Fujita (1886-1968) — a mushroom hairstyle, short mustache and round-rimmed glasses — to promote the museum's Fujita exhibition, which kicks off on Friday. "I'm not a ...
'Position 2016: An Intimate Relationship of Art and Craft'
Jan. 5-Feb. 21 Aichi Prefecture's wealth of traditional Japanese crafts includes Akadu-yaki and Tokoname-yaki pottery and the creation of Nagoya and Mikawa butsudan Buddhist altars. "Position" is a group exhibition that focuses on local artists and craftsmen who are helping to uphold such traditions. Though art ...
'Japanese Painters Under World War II: How Did They Survive War?'
July 18-Sept. 23 During Japan's 15 turbulent years of war — from the Manchurian Incident of 1931, through the Second Sino War from 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945 — artists, despite difficulties, continued to explore means of expression. For some, ...
