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NEW YORK – Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Diane and Arthur Abbey, well-known New York collectors of Japanese bamboo art, have provided a generous gift to endow a curatorship in the Museum’s Department of Asian Art. In recognition of their gift, the position has been […]

As indicated in the opening of this poem by a contemporary basket maker, bamboo – rapidly growing and quickly spreading – occupies an important position in Japanese artistic tradition. On the one hand, the delicate fronds of the natural plant appear as a recurring motif on scrolls, ceramics, and metalware. On the other, mature bamboo […]