🎨  New Japanese Clay, When Words Hurt, Space Sounds -- Asian Art Museum
Details
🎨 New Japanese Clay, When Words Hurt, Space Sounds -- Asian Art Museum (& Coffee after)
🔆 Join me to view four terrific exhibitions (read below) that will soon depart the Asian Art Museum.
▪︎ Meet at 10:30 am sharp at the museum entrance.
▪︎ We'll gather to chat over coffee after visiting the galleries.
▪︎ PLEASE don't be a no-show. If your plans change, remember to update your RSVP prior to the event.
▪︎ A late cancelation will count as a no-show.
🍒 When Words Hurt. Artist Gurjeet Singh’s first show at an American institution offers a moving consideration of the emotional impact of words.
🍒 New Japanese Clay. Infused with color and sculptural audacity, contemporary Japanese ceramics reveal a boundless reimagining of clay. In New Japanese Clay, rugged forms recall stone and soil, while others unfold with the delicacy of paper or the airiness of billowing cloth. Together, these works push the boundaries of a centuries-old tradition, offering a striking redefinition of the medium’s expressive potential.
🍒 Jitish Kallat’s installation Covering Letter engages with sounds and images launched into space in 1977 as a cosmic greeting from humanity. Encoded in the Golden Records (gold-plated phonograph LPs) carried by NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 and now traveling over 13 billion miles away, these messages were conceived as a “time capsule” meant to last beyond the potential extinction of our species and planet, as well as an introduction to humanity and life on Earth for potential extraterrestrial recipients.
🍒 “A love letter to the dance floor… The experience follows you home” — New York Times
Rave into the Future offers a space of joyful connection and community through a blend of music- and dance-inspired video, sculpture, photography, and room-sized immersive installations by women and queer artists from the West Asian diaspora.