CHICAGO, IL.- Following an international search, the Art Institute of Chicago announced the appointment of Daniel Walker as the head of two curatorial departments at the museum. Effective October 18, 2010, Walker will become the Pritzker Chair and Cura…
Japanese Woodblock Prints to Fill the Galleries…Twice at Tacoma Art Museum
TACOMA; WA.- Tacoma Art Museum is sharing one of Japan’s most popular art forms with the Northwest in their new exhibition Edo to Tacoma: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection, which runs September 4, 2010 through February 13, 2011 (the ex…
Christie’s Presents the Fall Sale of Japanese and Korean Art
NEW YORK, NY.- The sale of Japanese and Korean Art featuring Arts of the Meiji Period will offer a dynamic and varied array of over 250 works on September 15. The Japanese section of the sale will feature a group of enamel arts of the Meiji Period, scr…
Asian Art Dealers New York Announce Exciting Fall Schedule of Exhibitions
NEW YORK, NY.- Fourteen members of the Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) will present an exciting Fall schedule of exhibitions, focusing on a wide range of subject matter, throughout the month of September. The specialists in Indian, Himalayan, and S…
Japanese Art Dealers Association Announces Asia Week Exhibitions
NEW YORK, NY.- A robust panorama of traditional Japanese fine arts will be on view at the galleries of six leading dealers this Fall, including rarely seen 12th century Kyozo, or mirrors bearing drawings of gods, imperial screens once part of the furni…
Well-Qualified Crowds Discover 2nd SOFA WEST: Santa Fe
SANTA FE, NM.- Dealers and galleries at the second annual SOFA WEST: Santa Fe 2010 held July 8-11 at the Santa Fe Convention Center reported steady sales, most to new clients from all over the United States. Overall fair attendance climbed to 12,000 fr…
James T. Ulak, Deputy Director of the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Receives Japan’s Prestigious "Order of the Rising Sun
WASHINGTON, DC.- James T. Ulak, deputy director and senior curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries, has been selected to receive the “Order of the Rising Sun,” an award conferred by the Japanese…