Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Friends in Japan have been telling me how much they are enjoying visiting their favourite spots for viewing the autumn colours (紅葉 kôyô) this year, with many less tourists than normal. A year ago I was in the Tôhoku region of northern Japan with colleagues from English Heritage researching stone circles and enjoying the mountainous […]
Sainsbury Institute’s October 2020 Third Thursday Lecture welcomed a fascinating talk entitled, “Please Draw Freely: Gutai Individualism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism,” by Dr Ming Tiampo, Professor of Art History and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University. The talk introduced the Gutai art group as a major agent in shaping […]
In conjunction with the British Museum’s record-breaking 2017 exhibition ‘Hokusai beyond the Great Wave’, colleagues from the British Museum and SOAS have been collaborating on an AHRC funded research project ‘Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society (2016-2019). One of the key themes of the project is ‘connoisseurship’. Hokusai’s single-sheet print ‘The Great Wave’ is probably the […]