Unlocking the Mystery of Japan through the Art of the Kano

Unlocking the Mystery of Japan through the Art of the Kano

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Ever since American Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Uraga Harbor near Edo (the earlier name for Tokyo) on July 8, 1853, ending the isolationist policy of sakoku and “opening” (willingly or not) Japan to the West, “the Land of the Rising Sun” and its culture have fascinated Westerners. Yet, despite this fascination, true understanding of that history

Piero di Cosimo: Renaissance “Madman” for the Modern Age

Piero di Cosimo: Renaissance “Madman” for the Modern Age

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Half a millennium later, you would think the Italian Renaissance could hold no more secrets from us, no “codes” to decipher. And, yet, secrets hiding in plain sight continue to startle modern audiences with the depth and breadth of that amazing era. One of the well-kept secrets, at least until now, was the work of Piero di Cosimo,

The Sweet, Happy Side of Philip Larkin, the Sour, Sad Poet

The Sweet, Happy Side of Philip Larkin, the Sour, Sad Poet

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 â€œThey f**k you up, your mum and dad,” poet Philip Larkin wrote in the late work “This Be the Verse.” “They may not mean to, but they do./ They fill you with the faults they had/ And add some extra, just for you.” Larkin kidded that those lines would be his best remembered, a guess not too far

Is the Future of Museums Really Online?

Is the Future of Museums Really Online?

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In a world where the future of seemingly everything is online, museums — those repositories of the past — seem to resist the internet’s full digital embrace. It’s a question that’s increasingly crossed my mind thanks to a series of unrelated stories that share two common questions — how do people use museums now and how will they

“Birth of a Nation” and the Birth of American Cinema

“Birth of a Nation” and the Birth of American Cinema

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On February 8, 1915, at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation premiered. The fledgling art form of film would never be the same, especially in America, which even half a century after the end of the Civil War struggled to come to terms with race. Now, a century after Birth of