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Modern and Retro Beauties - 1100  open    Beautiful People

Start    Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Beautiful people seem to have distinctive advantage over the ordinary looking people. Pursuing of beauties ... the common human passion all over the world... Only the difference is that the standard of the beauty always changes from place to place in different era.

The featured video for this auction is with Paul Binnie from New York. Thanks to the Japan Society of New York for sharing this with us.
Biography of Toyonari Yamamura  |  Auction Catalog

Japanese Prints - 1101  coming    Magic of Art

Start    Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Works by leading artists from Edo era to contemporary.
Japanese Prints - Info

Hasui Kawase and Shin Hanga - 1102  coming    Lyrical Landscape

Start    Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Hasui Kawase's colleague, Shinsui Ito, called him, "Lyrical Traveller". His landscapes, often evening or snowy scenes, evoke the beautiful memories in the past. The quiet, peaceful landscapes he so masterfully created impress the viewer's mind the qualities forever lost in the modern society.
Hasui Kawase, Modern Master

Message to the 21st Century - 1103  coming    Japan Print Association : The Best of Contemporary Japanese Prints

Start    Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Japan Print Association (Nihon Hanga Kyokai) was established in 1931. Since then, it has been active in promoting the contemporary Japanese print artists through countless exhibitions and international exchange group shows.
Between 1989 and 1998, the association launched an ambitious project , "One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century", to record the changing aspects of the international megalopolis, Tokyo, in 100 prints by 100 artists.
The prints expressed yearly changes of Tokyo through the individuality and artistic sensitivity of each artists. The prints represented also the best in the diverse printing techniques of the modern printing art.
Contemporary Japanese Prints