art deco
Japan Society offers a window into how the Art Deco movement came to and radiated out from Japan
A new exhibition at the Japan Society, Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945, (on view now through June 10; a trailer can be seen here) offers a peek into the ephemera and artifacts of the golden age of Art Deco in Japan, a time during which the style dominated both popular and high-cultural aesthetics. The exhibition is the first of its kind in America. It includes a broad survey of some 200 objects (from the worlds of both high- and mass-culture) from the period. More
