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 ...

Bamboo is getting attention these days as a versatile and sustainable material for housewares, so the timing is good for a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit that explores Japan’s ancient craft of ...

NEW YORK-Bamboo is getting attention these days as a versatile and sustainable material for housewares, so the timing is good for a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit that explores Japan's ancient ...

Houston, Texas, November 15, 2016—Asia Society Texas Center is pleased to announce Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art, an exhibition exploring the innovative shape bamboo art has taken in ...

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 ...

The baskets in this scattershot but exhilarating show, which is organized around a promised gift from the collectors Diane and Arthur Abbey, are contextualized with objects and art works that ...

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 ...

Ceramics, calligraphy, and woodblock printing — all of them among the traditional arts of Japan — have been passed down from generation to generation for centuries. But out of these traditions have ...

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has been given nearly 1,000 objects by two donors, retired Los Angeles businessman Lloyd E. Cotsen and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Asian, which ...

In this season of Japanese art in Nashville, Cheekwood is presenting two exhibitions — "Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art" and "Japanese Woodblock Prints: Selections from the Judith and ...

NEW YORK — Bamboo is getting attention these days as a versatile and sustainable material for housewares, so the timing is good for a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit that explores Japan’s ancient ...