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Hanging 19th-Century Japanese and Western Masters Side by Side

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson November 19, 2015November 18, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — Claude Monet owned more than 200 Japanese prints and once told a critic, “If you insist on forcing me into an affiliation with anyone else … then compare me with the old Japanese masters; their exquisite taste has always delighted me.”

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The Beautifully Dressed Skeletons in Japan’s Closet

by John Yau October 11, 2015October 14, 2015

In a letter dated July 23, 1938, sent by the Japanese modernist poet Yone Noguchi to the Nobel Prize winning author Rabindrath Tagore — the first non-European to receive the award — Noguchi wrote the following justification for his country’s invasion of China, effectively ending their friendship:

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In 1970s Japan, a New Art of Experiments, Edgy Photos, and Big Ideas

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 19, 2015October 2, 2015

There are certain exhibitions in which some or many of the works on display are so interesting, provocative or well-made that they somehow manage to surmount whatever restrictive or overwrought critical-theoretical trappings their organizers have erected around them, defying the analytical filters through which they are meant to be considered and understood.

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Hand-tinted Photos of Geishas and Idyllic Landscapes in Early Modern Japan

by Julia Friedman September 15, 2015September 18, 2015

Japan’s Meiji period (1868–1912) is commonly described as a time of quick economic and political modernization and self-conscious competition with Western military might and colonial aspirations.

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Through a Lens, Inquisitively: Modern Photo Visions, of and from Japan

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 12, 2015September 22, 2015

Most photographs of real-life events tend to be documentary by nature, but the kind of photographic image-making that makes a point of approaching its subjects with an “objective” viewpoint and a for-posterity sense of purpose — can such photos ever convey a truly neutral position vis-à-vis their subjects?

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Revitalizing a Dying Region of Rural Japan with Art

Avatar photo by Ysabelle Cheung September 4, 2015September 8, 2015

Every spring, a resurrection occurs in the Echigo-Tsumari area of Japan’s Niigata prefecture.

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Japan Wipes Away Pretentiousness with Art Festival Devoted to Toilets

by Claire Voon September 3, 2015September 22, 2015

Relieve yourself of the conventional biennials and triennials of the art world with the first art festival dedicated entirely to bathrooms.

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Divers Denounce Japanese City’s Shallow New Mascot

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton August 13, 2015

Late last year Shima, a city of about 50,000 located 100 miles east of Osaka in Mie Prefecture, unveiled a new municipal mascot.

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Nude Drawing Classes Are Therapy for Middle-Aged Japanese Virgins

by Laura C. Mallonee June 26, 2015June 27, 2015

The Hollywood trope of the 40-year-old virgin, lampooned in Steve Carrell’s 2005 film, isn’t a joke in Japan.

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Photographers Bring Home a Picture of Fukushima

by Laura C. Mallonee March 24, 2015July 24, 2015

One of art’s greatest functions might be the way it helps us share our common experiences, though those experiences are sometimes all too tragic.

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The Massive Men of Homoerotic Manga

by Alexander Cavaluzzo February 19, 2015February 22, 2015

Amidst the magical girls and sentient robots that dominate the Japanese graphic novels and comics known as manga, pockets of intrigue and eroticism lie.

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Woodcut Kitty Porn of the Edo and Meiji Periods

by Becca Rothfeld February 19, 2015February 24, 2015

A new exhibition coming to the Japan Society this spring brings a different perspective to bear on our feline friends.

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