Revisiting Jun'ichiro Tanizaki’s flawed families in 'Longing and Other Stories'
The centerpiece of "Longing and Other Stories" is "Sorrows of a Heretic," which can be viewed as a self-deprecating satire thanks to the narcissism of its protagonist.
'Voices of 20 Contemporary Artists at Idem Paris: A Lithography Studio in Montparnasse'
Dec. 5-Feb. 7 Limestone lithograph printing, a technique that was honed during the 19th and early 20th centuries, enjoyed a later resurgence in popularity through the work of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall. Today, the French fine-art printing studio Idem Paris continues the ...
The influences on and of Tetsumi Kudo
"Collection 3 — Works Related to Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective: From Anti-art of the 1960s to Art of the Present Day" is a contextual exhibition accompanying the superb "Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective" at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. It brings together foreign ...
Kanai's provocative, textured 'girls' fiction' wistfully surprises
INDIAN SUMMER, by Mieko Kanai, translated by Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley. Cornell East Asia Series, 2012, 149 pp., $24 (paperback) Mieko Kanai is a prolific and provocative contemporary author whose poetry and short stories have been appearing in English since the 1970s and '80s, ...
