When Japan opened up to the world in the middle of the 19th century, Western merchant ships were quick to return home with exotic art from the once reclusive nation. The private galleries and ...
The exhibition "Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art" offers an antidote, full of intriguing objects that ask nothing more than to be admired for their beauty and human ingenuity. As an ...
One of the objects that catches your eye in “Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection,” which just opened at the Metropolitan Museum, is not what you might have expected to see at a show of Japanese ...
LLOYD COTSEN BEGAN what he admits has been “a 40-year love affair” with Japanese bamboo baskets when he walked into an antique store in San Francisco in the 1950s. “I was attracted,” Cotsen says, “by ...
Some of the sculptures in “Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art” at the Bowers Museum are so uniform and outwardly perfect that they appear manufactured, not handmade. Others are twists of ...
In the watery villages along the southern part of the Yangtze River, bamboo is a major part of people's daily life. Before Wuzhen, a village in East China's Zhejiang Province, became famous for ...
The Abbey Collection of bamboo arts and crafts, the 20-year loving labor of New York collectors Dianne and Arthur Abbey, attracted 470,000 visitors when it showed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
“Panda candy” — that’s what the National Zoo’s bamboo procurement team told Christian Ostermann he was growing in his yard. Though more difficult to harvest than the other two kinds of bamboo growing ...
The publisher will formally release the puzzle set in November 2023. The bamboo craft edition will have some similarities to Gunpla model kits. The set will contain 2mm (0.08in)-thick bamboo runners ...
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