terryh on mon 27 oct 03
"Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of 16th-Century Japan"
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
saw an article in e-NYT last friday 10/24 on japanese ceramic
exhibit at the MET:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/arts/design/24COTT.html?th
has anyone seen it? wondering if it's worth a trip.
terry
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Frank Gaydos on tue 28 oct 03
Terry,
Just returned from NY and the Oribe show was wonderful.
A must see. They have a beautiful catalog for about $40.00 titled
'Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan'
Yale University Press ISBN 1-58839-096-9 paperback (Hardback is 095)
What they have at the show and not in the catalog is two cases of shards
from kiln sites with hundreds of shards showing accidents and explosions.
Some of the work that was lost I would have cried over. :>)
Also visited a Richard Serra show in Chelsea that was awesome.
A Ron Nagle show also in Chelsea had mixed reviews. He is away from his
signature cups form. Instead in this show he displayed what appeared to be
cast gourd
forms that formed an axis at the tapered end of the gourd and stood on end
with four
or five of the exact form forming a circle. The surface treatment was very
nice but it was paint.
So I think it is just painted earthenware ! One of these was OK but a
whole floor was kinda boring. IMHO :>)
Frank Gaydos
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> "Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of 16th-Century Japan"
> at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
> saw an article in e-NYT last friday 10/24 on japanese ceramic
> exhibit at the MET:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/arts/design/24COTT.html?th
> has anyone seen it? wondering if it's worth a trip.
> terry
>
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