When Japan opened up to the world in the middle of the 19th century, Western merchant ships were quick to return home with exotic art from the once reclusive nation. The private galleries and ...
Bamboo is the culinary delight of pandas . . . and the shoots are palate-pleasers for humans. Bamboo can be sliced and molded so we can plank our floors with it, or make fabrics ready to wear . . . or ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Panda candy” — that’s what the National Zoo’s bamboo procurement team told Christian Ostermann he was growing in his yard. Though more difficult to harvest than the other two kinds of bamboo growing ...
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 ...
Oh shoot — To Bamboo!…an Homage… featuring the work of Artists Beverly Messenger-Harte and C. Wood — will open on May 29, with an artists’ reception on ...
The exhibition "Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art" offers an antidote, full of intriguing objects that ask nothing more than to be admired for their beauty and human ingenuity. As an ...
In the watery villages along the southern part of the Yangtze River, bamboo is a major part of people's daily life. Before Wuzhen, a village in East China's Zhejiang Province, became famous for ...
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