Hubu Mountain is outside of the South Gate of the ancient city Xuzhou, my hometown. Today it is part of the downtown core with 900,000 people. To call it a mountain is an overstatement. It is more like a hill, although you will break a sweat climbing up. Its commanding view has a perk – … Continue reading Tao Bao – Antiquing in Xuzho, China; A Personal Experience
Imagine for a moment a warehouse building in Seattle. Antiques are gathered there from Japan throughout the year. Then for two weeks of the year, the warehouse is open to the public. Would you travel to Seattle for that? We did. We made our way to Kyoto Art and Antiques for the open warehouse from … Continue reading A Warehouse Sale Worth Waiting For
Two exhibitions have brought Japanese art to the city of Dallas. It is a welcome change from shows like the staid flower paintings of Bouquets at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). These two exhibitions, one at DMA (Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga) joined The Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese … Continue reading East Meets Texas, Part 1–Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese Fashion at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
Bloomberg News reports that Christie's will hold its first auction in Mainland China this fall. In doing so it will become the first international auction firm to hold its branded events there. The article cites the European Fine Art Foundation which concludes the $13.7 billion market is the second-largest in the world. The move may begin … Continue reading Christie’s to Enter China Auction Market
Albany, Texas is about as far away from Tokyo as you can get, but Kana Harada has brought her cherry blossoms to the Old Jail Art Center. For a fleeting period of springtime, the 19th-century jail is infused with meditative zen. Kana moved from Tokyo with her husband, an expatriate from Texas Instruments, to Dallas … Continue reading A Japanned Cell – Note on Kana Harada’s installation at the Old Jail Art Center
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