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That's where Japan's duality comes in. It is a nation that does not always find it easy to change, to embrace the future. In Tokyo's Ota Memorial Museum of Art this month, there is an exquisite exhibition of ukiyo-e woodblock prints displaying Japan during the Meiji Restoration in the late 19th century, when Western habits - European music and military uniforms, crinolines - were beginning to replace the old ways. In one print, a woman in traditional kimono and lacquered hair watches wistfully as a young girl, hair flying behind her, joyfully rides a bicycle...
...therapeutic entertainment value, though, the performances raise questions about whether or not a musical experience can contribute to a visual one. The art among which Wei and Wu played—works by artists as stylistically and chronologically diverse as Edgar Dégas, James McNeill Whistler, Fra Angelico, Daniel Chester French and contemporary artist Max Grotjahn—is united in the fourth floor galleries to draw “attention not only to technical and stylistic innovations, but especially to continuities and revivals of themes and styles,” according to the galleries’ posted introduction...
...collection emphasizing “both different approaches and artistic interconnections” between art of different time periods, it seems only natural to explore “interconnections” between different media as well. The same cultural forces and political events would influence the development of Western music and Western art through the ages—but they remain fundamentally distinct media. Can unconscious or background perception of one inform a conscious experience of the other? Can a lively Vivaldi duet contribute anything to French’s “Abraham Lincoln, 1916?” Were...
...Mosher discussed her critically acclaimed New York City eco-art project HighWaterLine in the Gund Auditorium at the Graduate School of Design last night in an event aimed at bridging the gap between environmentalism and art. The project was aimed at highlighting the potential threat of flooding due to climate change in New York city. Using Google Maps and a chalk dispenser, Mosher drew a single chalk line through parks and public streets in the city along a 10-foot-high contour that marks the potential height of floodwaters by 2050. The project, which took six months and was completed...
...original mansion - an expansive cream-colored Art Deco affair that today accommodates the hotel's sought-after Imperial Suite on its top floor - has been supplemented with two perfectly matching wings, which in total make for 122 guest rooms. Each features a terrace that overlooks either the waters of the Perfume River or the distant stone towers of the former Imperial Citadel. Decked out in warm ocher, dark woods and raw Vietnamese silk, the rooms exude good taste, but the suites in particular benefit from wooden four-poster beds and themed décor that can depart, rather fancifully, from...