Sept.04
Stagiaire by David Israelow
Sept.04
David Israelow
Stagiaire, literally “trainee” in French, often refers to short kitchen stints where a cook works for free. This labor exchange is generally to learn from a great chef or as part of the process to obtain a job. I was in Tokyo for the former. The only issue was I had no contacts, knew no…
Sept.03
How Art Historians Cracked the Case of Enigmatic Japanese Painter Hasegawa Tōhaku
Sept.03
Allison Meier
From Artsy.net: by Allison Meier Hasegawa Tōhaku’s legacy has played out like an art-historical whodunit—which is precisely why Dr. Miyeko Murase, former special consultant in Japanese art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and professor emerita at Columbia University, found it so fascinating. “I thought, this reads like a detective story,” she told Artsy, “and…
Sept.02
Lacquer artist, Seiichiro Fujino
Sept.02
Simon Pilling
by Simon Pilling, specialist in Japanese lacquer ware Lacquer – the most perfect and finest objects ever issued from the hand of man (Louis Gonse, L’Art Japonais, 1900) Lacquer ware has traditionally defined arts of Japan in the West – the western name ‘japanning’ once having as powerful a resonance as ‘china’ still has in defining the…
Aug.15
Contemporary Glass Artist Takeshi Sano
Aug.15
by Dasha Klyachko, specialist in Japanese contemporary glass Contemporary glass art combined with Japanese sensibility philosophy and aesthetic Although records show that…
Aug.15
Checking Out: The Final Days of Hotel Okura
Aug.15
by Russel Wong in an article from the Kyoto Journal The announcement that the Hotel Okura was slated for demolition in the summer of 2015 reverberated around the world, and was duly met with harsh criticism. Architects, designers and historians, not to mention the hotel’s former patrons — including heads of state, world-class actors and…
