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Short reviews of East Asian Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Japanese porcelain at the Legion of Honor. February 20, 2016. On a visit to the Legion of Honor museum in Lincoln Park, I discovered that objects in the porcelain galleries had come from the Japanese Palace (or Japanisches Palais) created by Augustus the Strong. This piqued my interest because he is a figure who looms larger than life in Edmund de Waal’s The White Road, discussed in my last books post. San Francisco, CA. February 6, 2016.
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Short reviews of East Asian Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Asian art in the Musee du quai Branly. May 4, 2016. It is a decade since the 2006 opening of the Musee du quai Branly in Paris, under the auspices of President Jacques Chirac. The collections span Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, and the focus is on ethnology and art combined. Musee du quai Branly. Above: trees in bloom at the Musee du quai Branly. Photo: JF. Hidden Gold at the Asian Art Museum. April 4, 2016. Hidden Gold is being held...
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Short reviews of East Asian Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Open air sculpture at RHS Wisley. June 10, 2015. A visit to the RHS Garden at Wisley provided an unexpected glimpse of contemporary sculpture by various artists, including works by Yuelong Shi and Hongxun Jin. The garden is the setting for an open air display by Wellers Auctioneers, featuring 100 pieces for which you can bid online until 14 June. RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey. 16 May to 14 June 2015. Marble. Height 162cm. Below: Yuelong Shi,.
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Short reviews of East Asian Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cotswold Farm: Arts and Crafts with Chinese porcelain. May 14, 2015. Last weekend I joined a field trip to Cotswold Farm, an Arts and Crafts house with terraced gardens and terrific views. In the main, we were there to see the ceramics, but my overriding impressions are of the house itself. It is used by groups of clergy on retreat, though not on the day of our visit. Lucky clergy, I thought. Near Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Below: Cotswold...
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Short reviews of East Asian Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tag Archives: Chinese art. Asian art in the Musee du quai Branly. May 4, 2016. It is a decade since the 2006 opening of the Musee du quai Branly in Paris, under the auspices of President Jacques Chirac. The collections span Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, and the focus is on ethnology and art combined. Musee du quai Branly. Above: trees in bloom at the Musee du quai Branly. Photo: JF. Hidden Gold at the Asian Art Museum. April 4, 2016.
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Short reviews of East Asian Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Books: 101 Japanese gardens you have to visit – in North America. June 8, 2016. My only reservation was that the texts on individual gardens sometimes felt pedestrian, laboring over the chronology of which feature was added when, or dwelling too much on visitor amenities catering, weddings, corporate events. However, the gorgeous photography more than compensates. Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America. Kendall H. Brown, 2013.
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Short reviews of East Asian Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Talk by Karen Fraser: Looking West. December 28, 2015. This was a talk that I attended in the crazy days before Christmas, and it’s only now that I’m catching up with myself. Dr Karen Fraser (Santa Clara University) spoke at the Asian Art Museum about western influences in Japan, in the half-century from around 1860 to 1910. What follows is my brief summary of what I learnt. Which embraced this exotic new subject matter. Among the Five Nations.
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Short reviews of East Asian Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Embracing the surreal: video animations by Tabaimo. August 16, 2016. This exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art showcases the work of Japanese artist Tabaimo, who creates bold video animations in a style influenced by. It works well as a complement to the digital art show in my last post. Which was also by Japanese artists and highly immersive. A domestic interior is also central to the video installation. The effect is entertaining, if en...
