One of the leading BBC radio arts programs, recently featured a podcast on the Royal Academy's Kyōsai Exhibition.
Click the link and have a listen to our discussion with Christopher Harding:
Curator Dr Sadamura Koto speaks with Israel Goldman, collector of the works from the “Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection” at the Royal Academy of Arts, to explore the appeal of Kyōsai and the relationship between curating and collecting.
Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection will officially open to the public this Saturday.
Tickets available by following this link:
Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection and Kyōsai's Animal Circus by Sadamura Koto, are now on sale!
➤ shop.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-edit/exhibitions/kyosai-collection
Two new Kyōsai announcements have recently featured on the Art Fund website and in The Guardian, where it is listed as one of the cultural highlights of 2022.
We are pleased to announce the publication of our 40th Anniversary Catalogue.
It is available to view here:
I’m delighted to inform you that an exhibition of my Kyōsai collection at the Royal Academy, London which will take place next year 19 March 2022 – 19 June 2022 has just been officially announced.
More information to follow in the coming months.
The large group of Hokusai drawings which I sold to the British Museum will be on display from 30 September 2021 until 30 January 2022.
In addition, a marvellous facsimile edition of the drawings, written by Tim Clark (and which I helped sponsor) has just been published and will be available soon.
➤ www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/hokusai-great-picture-book-everything
The art historian Sophie Richard, who specializes in promoting Japan’s smaller museums, has just filmed an interview with me in my London home. This is the first in a series of videos sponsored by the Toshiba International Foundation.
Here’s the link to the interview on Sophie’s website:
I’m delighted to announce that a highly important group of 103 Hokusai drawings which I discovered in Paris last year have just been acquired by the British Museum. According to the museum, “the drawings are a major discovery of Hokusai’s life and works.”
There have been numerous articles in the press about the drawings in such publications as The Art Newspaper; the Times of London, The Antique Trade Gazette, etc.
Here’s a link to the article which featured in the Studio International Magazine:
An exhibition of the drawings at the British Museum has been scheduled for next year and they are all viewable online on the museum’s updated website:
