NEW YORK – Painting blossomed in Japan during the Edo period (1615–1868), as artists daringly experimented with conventional styles. Novel approaches to pictorial art came to Japan from China or the West, and new schools or styles emerged when individual painters stepped outside the rules set forth by established painting academies. The exhibition The Poetry of Nature: Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection, opening February 27 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will trace the development of the major schools and movements of this fascinating era.
Restaurant owner giving $500,000 to African American Museum
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A woman who started out as a grill worker and now owns multiple restaurants is pledging $500,000 for the International African American Museum that’s being developed in Charleston.
Cowboy mystique lives on in Remington bronzes
NEW YORK – Forever associated with cowboys and a romanticized picture of a vanishing Wild West, Frederic Sackrider Remington (American, 1861-1909) started out as a most unlikely cowboy. He was born in in upstate New York and spent his first 20 years of life in New York and New England, studying art at Yale. It wasn’t until the fall of 1881, a year after his father’s death, that he embarked on a life-changing, two-month trip to the Montana Territory — his first time in the West. He was immediately hooked.