Welcome to the endlessly fascinating world of Japanese storytelling. Japan has a long and rich history of pairing narrative texts with elaborate illustrations—a tradition that continues to this day with manga and other popular forms of animation. Featuring more than sixty works of art in a range of mediums and formats, this exhibition invites you to explore myriad subjects that have preoccupied the Japanese imagination for centuries—Buddhist and Shinto miracle tales; the romantic adventures of legendary heroes and their feats at times of war; animals and fantastical creatures that cavort within the human realm; and the ghoulish antics of ghosts and monsters.
From illustrated books and folding screens to textiles and even playing cards, the objects on view, which date from the twelfth to th ... Go to event
Join us for the opening reception of Oksana Prokopenko: Exhibition of Mosaic Icons and Paintings on Thursday, December 15th, at 6 pm
Oksana Prokopenko’s works have been acquired into the permanent collections of museums in the USA and Italy. She has been featured on the Russian international TV network, NTV-America, radio, and numerous publications. To quote Margo Grant, the Museum of Russian Art’s director, “The soul of Prokopenko’s work is in her walking that fine line between the transcendent and the ordinary. Prokopenko has achieved sheer brilliance in her deft treatment of the tiny peices in her micro-mosaics. What’s more is that it is done with a rainbow of majestic colors. ”
Prokopenko is a rarity in today’s contemporary art scene. Her focus on detail is akin to that of artist ... 
In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed in India, Tibetan artists expressed the Buddhist ideals embodied in a particular person, exalting their human subjects to the level of buddhas.
Mirror of the Buddha will present exquisite examples of these portraits, painted primarily in the eastern India-inspired Sharri style. Though the Sharri tradition spread from India to many parts of Asia, the style’s classic Indian forms, delicate colors, and intricate decorative details were emulated most faithfully by Tibetans and enjoyed particular popularity in Tibet from the 12th to 14th century.
Marking the third in a series of exhibitions that explores important Tibetan painti ... 
The first exhibition in the three-part Modernist Art from India series, The Body Unbound focuses on representations of the figure and the body in modernist art from India after that nation’s independence in 1947.
Figuration has been a long, sustained tradition in Indian art and Indian artists had already begun to incorporate secular and non-courtly figures into their works prior to Independence. Post-Independence, notions of the figure and body became connected with the creation of new cultural identities as well as the broad social and political concerns facing a new nation.
Reflecting on the predominant concerns of India’s artists in the decades after Independence, The Body Unbound considers the artistic and psychological significance of figurative modes in these paintings. A ... 
Three years after tackling themes and images from the quintessential work of Spanish satirical-heroism, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Santi Moix animates the ultimate allegory of American cultural-heroism, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Moix’s series of watercolors, collages, and wall-drawings transcribe the optimism, color, and vernacular panache of Twain’s characters and prose. They also represent a witty confrontation between the artist and his adopted land; the works on exhibit are the quasi-autobiographical Adventures of Santi Moix.
Just as Twain described antebellum Mississippi while writing from his home on the Connecticut coast, Moix uses his outsider status to gain perspective on America’s traditions and cultural history. Twain had to return to the ... 
Explore the life and times of India’s great kings by getting close to the objects they used and the art they commissioned, collected, and loved. Nearly 200 stunning artworks—including a gold throne, a silver carriage, Man Ray photographs, and a diamond belt—illuminate the dazzling world of Indian royalty from the 1700s to the 1940s, a period of dramatic change.
Journey from the throne room of an Indian court to the inner sanctum of the palace. Visit a variety of kingdoms to learn about India’s shifting political powers, its colonization by Great Britain, and the emergence of the independent nations of India and Pakistan in the modern era.
Along the way, discover fantastical art created especially for this exhibition by contemporary artist Sanjay Patel. Don’t miss more of his colorful works ... 
Every January Little Tokyo becomes the center for celebrating the Japanese New Year in Southern Califronia, with the JACCC heading up the festivities with programs that invigorate the spirit and imagination.
In celebration of the New Year, the JACCC distributesshikishi to members of the community to participate in a very unique exhibition, expressing hope for the New Year or a variation on the theme of Hatsu-Kaze (First Wind).
Shikishi paperboards have been used in Japan since the 12th Century for painting and writing poetry. Today inscribed shikishi are given as a gift to mark a memorable occasion.
Hatu Kaze, or “First Wind” is the theme for this year’s theme for the 14th Annual Shikishi Exhibition, opening on January 8, 2012.
The shikishi paperboards will interpret the theme, expressing ... 
BORDERLANDS
Artist Talk with Kate Arslanian and Reception
Kate Arslanian was born in Crossmaglen, County Armagh and this unique part of Ireland is the center of everything she paints. BORDERLANDS is an instinctive, moving and nostalgic series of abstract works, reflecting on the breathtaking countryside of the northern and southern borders of Armagh, Louth and Monaghan. The exhibition runs January 26 – April 18.
BORDERLANDS will travel to Iontas Arts Center in Castleblayney, County Monaghan in May, Strule Arts Center in Omagh, County Tyrone in July and at ACOSS in Yerevan, Armenia in September.
When: January 26
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: Irish Arts Center Gallery
553 West 51st Street, New York City
Tickets: FREE. To reserve tickets, please visit: irishartscenter.org or 866-811-4111
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No other artist has been more closely associated with the Hispanic Society of America than the Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). With the finest collection of works by Sorolla outside of Spain, the Hispanic Society has been a required visit, if not a pilgrimage, for all who admire the “painter of light.”
Sorolla’s masterwork Vision of Spain, comprised of 14 monumental oil paintings on canvas depicting the peoples and regions of Spain, has been a museum highlight since it was first exhibited in 1926. Having received the commission for the Hispanic Society in 1911 from its founder, Archer Milton Huntington, over the next eight years Sorolla traveled throughout the regions of Spain, producing hundreds of preparatory sketches before completingVision of Spain in 1919.
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Kamisaka Sekka was born in the early Meiji period (1868–1912), a vibrant time in Japan’s history that not only saw the end of a 250-year period of isolation, but also rapid Westernization and modernization of the country. Sekka became an ardent follower of the Rinpa painting tradition, a decorative style that first originated in the seventeenth century. Often referred to as the “Last Great Rinpa Artist”, Sekka would go on to lead the revival of Rinpa in the early twentieth century. His influence goes far beyond mere revival, however, as he was also instrumental in the development of modern design in Japan. A prodigiously creative artist, Sekka not only developed imaginative designs but also co-operated with other artists to apply designs to lacquer ware, textiles, ceramics, and ... 
