Here's the press release: Courtesy The New Orleans Museum of ArtHotei's ink on paper drawing 'Sound of One Hand (late).' The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin Organized ...
In the 18th century, enlightenment had almost opposite meanings in East and West. To Europeans it meant release by reason from superstition, that is, from religion and the burden of the past. In Japan ...
In addition to his well-known passions for hockey, world cinema and cowboy poetry, George Gund III loves Japanese Zen art. Over the past 25 years, the peripatetic arts patron who owns the San Jose ...
A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a ...
How do you make an artwork sing? Let your unconscious mind do it. That’s the message of an alluring show at the Japan Society. By Will Heinrich Two longtime painters recently told me how joyful their ...
In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. For centuries, Japanese Zen Buddhist masters have ...
Introduction: Hakuin in Japanese Zen history -- Life in art, art in life: biographical influences in Hakuin's painting and calligraphy -- Buddhist, Shinto, and folk deities -- Old dragons, new dragons ...
I have always been the scientific one in a family of artists: actors, painters and illustrators. As a child I was sent for art lessons with my sister, who is now an illustrator, but I was too ...
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