The Art Institute of Chicago Presents Painting The Floating World
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 9, 2018
From November 4, 2018 through January 27, 2019 the Art Institute of Chicago presents Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection, a collection formed by Roger Weston over the last twenty-five years which captures compellingly the beginning, major developments, and final flowering of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) painting. Encompassing folding screens, hanging scrolls, handscrolls, and albums, these works are technically accomplished masterpieces by the most famous artists in Edo (present-day Tokyo) and beyond. Ukiyo-e comprises both paintings and prints, so it is especially meaningful that such a complete collection of paintings can be shown at a museum known for its significant holdings of prints.
Japan Society Gallery Announces A THIRD GENDER Exhibition
by Molly Tracy - Feb 20, 2017
Two amorous figures sit seaside, intimately entwined on a cozy bamboo banquet and making music from a shared shamisen. With nearly identically coiffed tresses, flowing robes and delicate, demure features, the figures seem paradigms of female beauty in classical Japanese art.
TOKIO CONFIDENTIAL Recording, Featuring Jill Paice & Telly Leung, Released Today
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2015
The recording of TOKIO CONFIDENTIAL, a new musical with words and music by Eric Schorr that had its Off-Broadway world premiere in 2012, will be released by Broadway Records and is now available for pre-order on the Broadway Records website at www.broadwayrecords.com/cds/tokio-confidential and select retailers. The album will be released on CD and digitally today, May 12, 2015.
Japan Society Presents Yumiko Tanaka's Shamisen Accompaniment to CROSSROADS Film Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Nov 15, 2014
Acclaimed traditional gidayu-bushi (specific to bunraku puppet theater) shamisen player and avant-garde musician Yumiko Tanaka provides a thrilling soundscape to the silent film Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928) tonight, November 15th in the second show of Japan Society's 2014-2015 Performing Arts Season multi-month musical program, The Shamisen Sessions.
Horse Trade Theater Group Presents HT ENCORES 2013, Beginning 1/10
by Kelsey Denette - Nov 30, 2012
Horse Trade Theater Group's audience is young, diverse, hip, artistic, and most importantly interested. Come see some of the best indie theatre of the year, back by popular demand for a limited time only! Horse Trade's 2013 Encore Series will feature original works by the Drama Desk nominated RadioTheatre, comedian Tanya O'Debra, the acclaimed CollaborationTown, and FRIGID New York Festival favorites writer/performer Cara Yates, solo artist Slash Coleman, clown performer Sandrine Lanfond, and hybrid multimedia theatre presenters, Theatre Reverb.
AWASH IN COLOR: FRENCH AND JAPANESE PRINTS On View at University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, 10/4-1/20
by Sierra Fox - Oct 26, 2012
The University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art presents Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints, a new exhibition that examines the distinct yet overlapping traditions of color printmaking in France and Japan. On view from October 4, 2012 to January 20, 2013, the exhibition presents more than one hundred and thirty exquisite prints and illustrated books from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.