September 2025 message from the Executive Director

Welcome back to our monthly e-bulletin. It was a busy summer for the Institute, interspersed with some welcome holidays, and we look forward refreshed to the new academic year. Our Research Director, Professor Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, launches her latest project, Art of Manga, a major new exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco […]

Report on the talk ‘On the Road with Hiroshige: A Look at the Artist’s Landscape and Nature Prints’

For the Sainsbury Institute’s July Third Thursday Lecture, we were joined by Dr Alfred Haft, the JTI Project Curator of Japanese Collections at the British Museum and lead curator of the museum’s current exhibition, Hiroshige: artist of the open road (1st May–7th September 2025). Alfred’s presentation took us on the road with Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) […]