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There are plenty of texts dealing with the West's perception of Japan, but the Shomei Tomatsu retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sfmoma.org, from May 13 to Aug. 13, gives Western audiences a chance to discover how the Japanese see themselves. The atom bomb, Americanization, urbanization and the postwar rebuilding of Japan all figure prominently in Skin of the Nation, which collects some of the 76-year-old master's most famous images from the 1950s to the present. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade...
...Orsouw, tel: (41-44) 273 1100, as well as Art One, tel: (41-44) 273 1737, which specializes in the work of young up-and-comers. And no trip to Zurich-West would be complete without a visit to Kunsthalle, tel: (41-44) 272 1515, and the Migros Museum of contemporary art, tel: (41-44) 277 2050, both located in the 19th century former Löwenbräu brewery. The beer may be gone, but these galleries, like the rest of the area, are offering diversions that are no less intoxicating...
Ever wonder how your ancestors ate their food? You can find out this summer at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. On display from May 5 to Oct. 29 will be "Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005." The exhibition will explore the evolution of Western dining and culinary culture from the Renaissance to the present by showcasing more than 300 pieces of historical and contemporary cutlery from the institution's collection, like the 1966 French place setting above, as well as from the Tiffany Archives. The show will examine how etiquette trends...
Carleton Varney tells the story of the legendary interior decorator, documenting her most famous achievements, like the old cafeteria at the Metropolitan Museum...
...class is a little more rugged. Their class is jointly taught by Dr. David R. Foster and Mother Nature herself, deep in the heart of the Harvard forest. A forest, you say? Yes, my child, a forest. Indeed, in 1907, Harvard bought a forest, and soon added a museum, colonial farmhouses, and, most importantly, DSL. According to Forest Director Dr. David R. Foster—whose last name is “coincidentally” an anagram of forest—this forest is a whole lot more than a bunch of trees. “It?...