Vincent van Gogh

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on October 2010 Van Gogh’s canvasses have been exhibited numerous times in Japan, but never before has his tale been told so thoroughly. With help from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and Kröller-Müller Museum in…

Impressive Impressionism at the NMWA

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on July 2010 Ever since Vincent van Gogh came under the spell of Japanese ukiyo-e, cross-cultural fertilization between the East and West has been a continuing theme of printmaking. “Hemispheres” at the Canadian Embassy’s spacious Prince…

A wide-ranging portmanteau show unpacks its wares at the NACT

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on April 2010 The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston houses numerous artworks of interest to the Japanese—among them one of the world’s finest collections of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. This show, however, represents a kind of…