Visual Art Bad News
posted by on July 17 at 16:18 PM
Yukiko Shirahara is leaving the Seattle Art Museum. And just when I began to appreciate her. Here’s my column introducing her from a few months ago, and my review of her culture-mashup show Japan Envisions the West: 16th–19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum. Here’s my conversation with her about Hokusai’s Great Wave.
According to a press release from SAM, Shirahara is becoming chief curator at the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts in Tokyo. She starts there October 1.
“This is a marvelous promotion for Yukiko Shirahara,” said SAM director Mimi Gates, “and no one deserves it more. A scholar-curator who maintains high standards, Yukiko is totally dedicated to advancing knowledge about Japanese and Korean art. She will be sorely missed.”
Shirahara, a specialist in Buddhist and Shinto painting, joined the SAM curatorial staff in January 2002. Most recently she organized the groundbreaking exhibition Japan Envisions the West… She served as curator for many other outstanding exhibitions such as: Five Masterpieces of Asian Art: The Story of their Conservation (2007), Elegant Earth: Photographs by Johsel Namkung (2006); Mountain Dreams: Contemporary Ceramics by Yoon Kwang-cho (2004); Beyond the Paper Plane: Japanese Prints from the 1950s to 1970s (2004); Discovering Buddhist Art: Seeking the Sublime (2003); and Rabbit, Cat and Horse: Endearing Creatures in Japanese Art (2002). SAM’s Asian Art collection, long a cornerstone of the museum, was greatly expanded during Shirahara’s tenure. Among her most notable acquisitions include a Japanese modern woodblock print Mount Rainier by Yoshida Hiroshi, an early Edo period hanging scroll Portrait of Zen Monk, a late Edo period Japanese Noh theatrical robe, Korean contemporary ceramics by Yoon Kwang-cho, Moon Jar by Park Young-sook and 21 prints by Seattle-based Korean photographer Johsel Namkung. She also acquired for SAM more than 800 reference books, exhibition catalogues and journals on Asian Art from the late Japanese scholar Taka Yanagisawa for SAAM’s McCaw Foundation Library (2006).
Congratulations. Boo.
Dear Jen,
Unfortunately,
The side show with the recently announced
( see today on cable tv at North Seattle Community College cafeteria security logs )
that there is / was some secret security cabal to try to free the world of war and bloodshed and give President George W. Bush something viable to read and it was killed by our Vice President Dick Cheney because of national security.
Apparently, this secret cabal of well know and respected individuals, having unbiased concern for the freedom of all mankind... has chosen scientists and students and people like yourself and some suspicious character named Daniel Bennett Kieneker to run the inside scam looking device from congress to steal political daollars from advertising and report it as a two day old story mis-spoken on the same cafeteria channel after the University of Washington Book Channel moved the dialog and it was reported that someone was called a "wussy" and that must have been what pissed old Dick Cheney off.
Sound like a good excuse as any to report on anonymus hackers by the NSA as any... so I guess I'll support your previous student charters as ART DOCENT to the indigent poor people like myself.... and here's hoping we make the 6:oo o'clock news.
p.s.
Maybe I'll see you at the Rainier Movie tonight and we can go back to your place and have a good time talking about Dan's secret missing art.
I'll be wearing my cat shirt and #9 hat.
Hope to see you there Jen and please don't be shy as you know I am out of money.
D.B. oooh la la
Really really droll... yet the movie IS advertised in the Stranger at Rainier Square out door theater and tonight is something like BOOce rains.
p.s.
I love you claud.
Golly gee-willikers batgirl...
How are we ever gonna get together?
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