Images courtesy of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Join Gennifer Weisenfeld, a professor at Duke University, at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for a lecture about modern design in Japan.
This program is presented in connection with the exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan. Entry to this lecture is included with Museum admission and takes place in Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building.
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan is located in the Caroline Wiess Law Building.
About the Speaker:
Gennifer Weisenfeld, the Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. She is the author of Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905–1931 and Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923.
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan is organized by the Japanese Art Society of America (JASA), with funds provided by JASA members, to celebrate its 50th Anniversary, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
In Houston, major support is provided by:
Bobbie Nau
Additional generous support is provided by:
Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
Anne and Albert Chao
Milton D. Rosenau, Jr. and Dr. Ellen R. Gritz
The exhibition catalogue is made possible with funds provided by The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and The Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art, Columbia University.