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Ukiyo-e...Japanese Woodblock Prints

The Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a ukiyo-e exhibition which has just begun.There are 150 odd woodblock prints,printed books and paintings from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.Coming hard on the heels of the Toulouse Lautrec... ...full story at Porcelain Monkey

from Porcelain Monkey on Mon, Jan 21 2008

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11 Feb 08 visit Hokusai Exhibition Nagoya City Art Museum  »  Porcelain Monkey Hard on the heels of the ukiyo-e display currently underway at the Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Kanayama is the Hokusai exhibition which opened on the 9th at the Nagoya City Art Museum.Subtitled "Siebold and Hokusai and his Tradition" there are...
05 May 08 visit The World Of Monet..Nagoya Boston Museum  »  Porcelain Monkey Currently showing at the Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Nagoya is an exhibition entitled The World of Claude Monet.There are 25 Monet works on show as well as paintings by some of his contemporaries such as Degas,Renoir and Manet.There is only one...
27 Oct 08 visit The Perry and Harris Exhibition  »  Porcelain Monkey The Perry and Harris Exhibition..The Dawn of U.S-Japan Relations..The current exhibition at the Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts looks at the start of the U.S and Japanese relationship and the US-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed in 1858.The...
15 Jul 07 visit Ugly Babies and Big Cars  »  Porcelain Monkey The Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts currently has two exhibitions on show.I biked down last Friday in the tyhphoonal rain to see them.The first was titled Children in American Art.44 paintings from various American artists ranging from 1670 to 1944.As...
14 Jan 08 visit Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition  »  Porcelain Monkey I spent a couple of hours Friday morning at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art viewing the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition that ended last weekend.Subtitled "la vie parisienne" it covered the last 10 years of his short 36 year life.On display were some 300...

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