Time

Monet’s Love Affair with Japanese Art

One day in 1871, legend has it, a French artist named Claude Monet walked into a food shop in Amsterdam, where he had gone to escape the Prussian siege of Paris. There he spotted some Japanese prints ...
Time

Art: Japanese Print Revival

Time was when Japan’s cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese mourned ...
The New York Times

How the French Revived a Classic Japanese Art Form

Ahead of TEFAF Maastricht, Tamio Ikeda, of the Paris gallery Tanakaya, shares the complex history behind the woodblock print, and how mutual admiration may have saved it. By Vivian Morelli Reporting ...
insider.si.edu

National Museum of Asian Art Debuts Works on Paper Gallery With Exhibition of Recently Acquired Japanese Prints

Credit: Toyohara Kunichika / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC: The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection, S2021.5.339a-c To inaugurate a new gallery devoted entirely ...
Architectural Digest

How the Japanese Paper Lantern Became a Modern Design Staple

As iconic design objects go, perhaps none is more simple—and so universally beloved—as the paper lantern. This month, an inspired and beautiful exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design ...