News
The Women Directors Reshaping Japan’s Film Industry
Beyond showcasing a wide range of styles and genres, 21st Century Japan also includes some of the country’s most remarkable contemporary women filmmakers.
Japan Society
Announcement
Japan Society and the Agency for Cultural Affairs Present 21st-Century Japanese Films
21st Century Japan: Films From 2001–2020 presents a wide-ranging selection of films celebrating the last two decades of Japanese cinema, streaming online February 5–25.
Film
A Dynamic Portrait of Sex Workers Channels Suppressed Rage to Cathartic Ends
Now streaming as part of JAPAN CUTS, Kana Yamada’s Life: Untitled features a wealth of skillfully written characters attuned to Japan’s contemporary social dysfunctions.
Film
Exploring the Isolations of Age, Disability, and Depression in Japan
A trio of documentaries playing at this year's Japan Cuts festival tackle different facets of social alienation.
Art
Japan’s Radical Conceptual Art of the 1960s
An exhibition at Japan Society makes room in the modernist canon for the heady, playful ideas of free-thinking renegades.
Announcement
Ego Obscura: First NYC Institutional Exhibition Devoted to Postmodernist Master Yasumasa Morimura
Ego Obscura surveys Morimura’s 30-year-long career exploring representations of gender, sexuality, and the dynamics of power in cultural identity.
Art
When Encounters Between East and West Go Smoothly
At the Japan Society, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, legacies of inter-cultural encounter are seen through a lens of global understanding.
Art
The Hidden History of Wakashu, Edo-Era Japan's "Third Gender"
An eye-opening exhibition at Japan Society closely examines representations of wakashu in woodblock prints from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.
Opinion
Let’s Use the Art Strike to Hold Cultural Institutions Accountable
The action invites us to commit to challenging our institutions to resist Trumpism and combat the conditions that allowed its emergence.
Art
The Irish for Noh: The Masks of William Butler Yeats
Although the poetry of William Butler Yeats is often misconstrued as autobiographical, the poet scorned such transparency, calling it “unimaginative” and comparing realism to “putting photographs in a plush frame.”
Art
Reinterpreting W. B. Yeats's 1916 Experiment with Japanese Noh Theater
At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism.
Announcement
Japan Society Unveils New Noh-Inspired Project by Simon Starling
Japan Society Gallery opens Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W. B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation), the debut solo exhibition of the Turner Prize winner’s work at a New York City institution.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTUzODI1LCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6NDg3MTQ2LCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY2siOnt9LCJjci