Nudes! Guns! Ghosts! Shintoho Films at the Freer
Revenge of the Pearl Queen Author and film critic Mark Schilling is the curator of our Shintoho retrospective, named “Nudes! Guns! Ghosts!” after the films’ sometimes-scandalous subject matter. Bento...
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Case study: Japanese books from the Gerhard Pulverer collection On Saturday, April 6, Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer’s Japanese Illustrated Books opens in the Sackler. In honor of the exhibition, we’re...
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Taiko drummers in traditional kimono performing on the steps of the Freer Gallery (photos by John Tsantes). In honor of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, nearly forty drummers and dancers from...
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Fireworks at Ryōgoku, 1880, Kobayashi Kiyochika, Robert O. Muller Collection; S2003.8.1195 Kobayashi Kiyochika is known for his night scenes in much the same way that James McNeill Whistler is renowned...
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Scene from “Perfect Number,” screening October 13 at the Freer Tom Vick is curator of film at Freer|Sackler. Our current film series Pages of Beauty and Madness: Japanese Writers Onscreen not only...
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Kenzan style tea bowl with design of crane and flowing water; late 19th century; Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1896.100 Lee Glazer is associate curator of American art at Freer|Sackler. Hardly. When...
View ArticleNudes! Guns! Ghosts! Shintoho Films at the Freer
Revenge of the Pearl Queen Author and film critic Mark Schilling is the curator of our Shintoho retrospective, named “Nudes! Guns! Ghosts!” after the films’ sometimes-scandalous subject matter. Bento...
View ArticleThe Art of the Book
Case study: Japanese books from the Gerhard Pulverer collection On Saturday, April 6, Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer’s Japanese Illustrated Books opens in the Sackler. In honor of the exhibition, we’re...
View ArticleHiaaaaa! Drumroll, Please!
Taiko drummers in traditional kimono performing on the steps of the Freer Gallery (photos by John Tsantes). In honor of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, nearly forty drummers and dancers from...
View ArticleFireworks!
Fireworks at Ryōgoku, 1880, Kobayashi Kiyochika, Robert O. Muller Collection; S2003.8.1195 Kobayashi Kiyochika is known for his night scenes in much the same way that James McNeill Whistler is renowned...
View ArticleReaders and Movie Lovers: You Have Homework
Scene from “Perfect Number,” screening October 13 at the Freer Tom Vick is curator of film at Freer|Sackler. Our current film series Pages of Beauty and Madness: Japanese Writers Onscreen not only...
View ArticleAngry Birds?
Kenzan style tea bowl with design of crane and flowing water; late 19th century; Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1896.100 Lee Glazer is associate curator of American art at Freer|Sackler. Hardly. When...
View ArticleMusic in the Time of Kiyochika
“Teahouse at Imadobashi by Moonlight” by Kobayashi Kiyochika, ca. 1997; Robert O. Muller Collection Howard Kaplan is museum writer at Freer|Sackler. What would it have been like to attend a piano...
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