Japanese Art Society of America
4/7/16 Exhibition Tours
DAY IN NEW YORK: CONTEMPORARY SPRING OUTING
Join Program Committee Member, Amy Poster, to see these two superb and timely exhibitions at MoMA and Japan Society.
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016
11:00AM - 12:00PM
MoMA EXHIBITION TOUR: A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond
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Toyo Ito. Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan. 1995-2001. © Naoya Hatakeyama
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MoMA
11 West 53rd Street
between Fifth Ave and Ave of Americas, NYC
Exhibition tour of A Japanese Constellation with Assistant Curator, Phoebe Springstubb.
A Japanese Constellation focuses on the network of architects and designers that has developed around Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and SANAA. Exploring a lineage of influence and cross-pollination that has become particularly relevant at the start of the 21st century, the exhibition highlights the global impact and innovation of contemporary architecture from Japan since the 1990s.
12:30-1:30PM - OPTIONAL LUNCH WITH AMY POSTER. An extra luncheon fee would apply.
1:45 - 3:00PM
JAPAN SOCIETY EXHIBITION TOUR: In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11
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Takashi Arai (b. 1978). April 26, 2011,Onahama, Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, from the series Mirrors in Our Nights, 2011. Daguerreotype. ©Takashi Arai / Courtesy Photo Gallery International and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, NYC
333 East 47th Street, NYC
JASA Special Tour of In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 at the Japan Society with Dr. Michael Chagnon (Curator, Exhibition Interpretation, Japan Society) and welcome by Yukie Kamiya (Gallery Director, Japan Society).
In the Wake focuses on the artistic responses of seventeen of Japan's most acclaimed veteran and emerging photographers to the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, triggering nuclear power plant failure and a human and environment crisis that persists to this day. With some 100 works on display, the exhibition leads visitors through a stunning range of artistic practice as Japan continues to rebuild in the post-3/11 era.
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. Limited to 25 JASA members.
FEE: $35 per person, not including lunch.
Optional Luncheon fee: to be determined
If you would like to attend, please register by clicking the register now button below and fill out the registration form.
Please contact Christy Laidlaw, membership coordinator, with any questions via email: japaneseartsoc@yahoo.comor phone: 917-658-3955
917-658-3955 .
917-658-3955 .