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GUTAI: Beyond the Canvas | Whitestone Gallery Whitestone Gallery Singapore is proud to present our first Gutai Movement showcase; GUTAI: Beyond the Canvas. Following our first exhibition ERUPTION: Japanese Post-War Avant-Garde in New Art Museum S...

GUTAI: Beyond the Canvas, exhibition at Whitestone Gallery Singapore opens tomorrow, 1.11 to 3.2

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Top 50 Exhibitions Around the World in 2024 From lesser-known artists to big names, our staff and contributors compiled our favorite shows around the globe in a year of exceptional art.

Hyperallergic staff and contributors picked the best art shows from around the world this year, from rare drawings by old masters to fresh takes on traditional crafts.

What about Singapore? There are many international schools here too.

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Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Tenshin and his Circle by Victoria Weston

5/20

An Academic Hallmark Christmas Movie In the opening scene we meet our heroine: The Professor.

Happy holidays! I hope that all of the professors out there got your grading done and didn't have to deal with too many questions about your career choices. Here's a little story for you. cfiesler.medium.com/an-academic-...

Haniwa gingerbread cookies.

Ah, then this is certainly most encouraging ! ( and reassuring )

Book cover for Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952 by Alison J. Miller. The cover has a Meiji period print of a Japanese empress in Western style dress, with the emperor sitting in a Western military-style outfit behind her and some ladies in waiting also in Western garb with big bustled skirts and large hats.

Since Alison isn't in the sky 🦋, I'll share the exciting news that her book "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952" is out now! 🥳 I had the privilege of reading some of this great work in our writing group along the way! www.routledge.com/Envisioning-...

上手in mandarin can also mean to gain the upper hand or get started. I use it in the former more often than others.
In this sentence here it is the latter.

「列島」の絵画　「日本画」のレイトスタイル　by 北澤憲昭　. This out of print book finally arrived, after looking for it the past 14 months. Paintings of the Archipelago: Nihonga’s late style. Potential for #20InfluentialBooks list on #JapaneseArtHistory but I haven’t read it. A wonderful way to end the semester!

leonardo dicaprio is wearing a tuxedo and bow tie and smiling with the words yasssss written below him ALT: leonardo dicaprio is wearing a tuxedo and bow tie and smiling with the words yasssss written below him

Same here !

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Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga collectives in Early 20th century Japan
4/20

There are still a few weeks left in the year (though December is generally a quiet month for book proposals), but it looks like I’m going to close out 2024 with around 80% of total book proposals coming from men, 18% from women, and 2% from persons whose gender was not apparent/obvious.

The politics of coloured statues | Blog post | Mary Beard There is no doubt at all that many if not most Greco-Roman statues were painted. That has been known for hundreds of years. Alma-Tadema knew it when he

Some reflections on why (beyond the obvious) the painting of ancient statues has been controversial for so long. tinyurl.com/47bb2tud

Congratulations, Dr. !

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Making Modern Japanese-Stye Painting: Kano Hogai and the search for Images. by Chelsea Foxwell.
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Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: the Politics of Beauty.
2/20

Nihonga: Transcending the Past.
1/20

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"The challenge is to choose 20 books/ exhibition catalogues that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."

Please circulate among interested students!

The Department of the History of Art & Architecture at UMass Amherst invites applications for our two-year MA program WITH FUNDING! The deadline is January 15.

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Louise Bourgeois at the Mori Art Museum
"The pink tin is decorated with a motif of "Maman," a spider sculpture that symbolizes Bourgeois’s mother and is also self-portrait. The tin contains milk almonds reminiscent of the white eggs that "Maman" carries in its belly.
2,160 yen (incl. tax)"

Australia passes world-first law banning under-16s from social media despite safety concerns Bill passes amid warning that process has been rushed and that a ban could push teenagers towards the dark web or into isolation Australia’s parliament has passed a law that will aim to do what no other government has, and many parents have tried to:…

Australia passes world-first law banning under-16s from social media despite safety concerns

Whenever I give workshops on academic book publishing, authors inevitably have questions about how to talk with editors at conferences. Worry no more! Laura Portwood-Stacer has just published a free e-book on this very topic!

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Thank you! This is timely for me !

Greg holds a microphone while speaking in Southwark Cathedral. He wears a leather jacket, red jumper, and has brown curly hair

Greg smiles while holding his children’s book Totally Chaotic History: Ancient Egypt Gets Unruly with its vibrant yellow and red front cover that shows a pharaoh being chased by a crocodile

The artwork for Greg’s BBC podcast You’re Dead To Me which playfully reworks the iconic imagery in the Bayeux Tapestry to show King Harold, with arrow in his eye, pointing accusingly to William who holds up his hands in apology

Greg’s bookcase displaying his podcast artwork, 3 podcast awards, and 5 books he has written, including their international versions with different artwork and titles in various foreign languages

Hi! I’m a Public Historian and I host the funny BBC podcast YOU’RE DEAD TO ME which pairs up expert historians with comedians

I also write funny history books - 3 for kids & 3 for adults - and I used to work on the BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV comedy show

I love TV, movies, books, podcasts & Spurs 😀

I’m a fan of this podcast and it’s on my list of resources for my students.

TIL about 馬来語熱, "Malay Fever," a surging popularity in the study of the Malaysian language in wartime Japan, spurred largely by ideas of the Co-Prosperity Sphere.

One clear indicator: this chart of the languages pursued by students at Keio University's Foreign Language School upon admission in 1942

Dear researchers who are interested in pre-modern Japan,

NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it!
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...

The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji: