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YORK Art Gallery officially reopens on Friday, May 28 - and a series of ‘lost pots’ by one of Britain’s best known artists will be the star…

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A NEW exhibition at York Art Gallery, featuring Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, will go on display as part of the 'Spotlight Series' to celebrate the reopening of the venue. The exhibit, titled 'Pictures of the Floating World: Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints’, will feature prints by prominent Ukiyo-e artists and work influenced by Japanese art. Jenny Alexander, associate collections curator at York Art Gallery, said: "Visitors will see delicate prints depicting scenes celebrating everyday life, through themes such as landscape and travel, actors and courtesans and folk tales. "Some of these works ...

Share She is among 184 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists chosen as 2021 Guggenheim Fellows in the United States and Canada from nearly 3,000 applicants. Davis, considered a foremost authority on Japanese prints and illustrated books, teaches a wide range of courses at Penn on East Asian art and material culture in the greater global context. Her research focuses on Ukiyo-e, the “images of the floating world,” and the arts of Japan’s Tokugawa period (1615-1868). Her work has confronted issues of artistic identity, gender, and collaboration, and she has further expanded her res...