During the Meiji Restoration, the combination of photography, the Western-style printing press and the Japanese tradition of ukiyo-e created e-hagaki — colorful, beautiful picture postcards.
The website Old Tokyo displays a number of these postcards, including several of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel interior and exterior views (even a bird’s-eye view that gives a sense size […]
Beginning November 10, the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is hosting the exhibit Patterned Feathers, Piercing Eyes: Edo Masters from the Price Collection. The Etsuko and Joe Price Collection — one of the finest collections of Japanese art in the world (a recent, four-site tour of the collection in Japan drew 800,000 visitors) began with […]
Opposable digits firmly in the vertical orientation generally connoting approval.
That’s an unqualified recommendation, just in case you were wondering.
There’s a lot to like about this movie, and not much to complain about. A quick pace, great images and a good cubic mile of stuff you didn’t already know. I gained new perspective on Frank Lloyd […]
The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust is offering a 12-day tour of Japan. Wright Way Japan: Contemporary Japan includes tours of three Wright-designed buildings and works by Arata Endo, Antonin Raymond and even works by Tadao Ando and I.M. Pei. A portion of the tour is lead by Magnificent Obsession filmmakers and founders of the […]
_Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Building & Legacy in Japan _ will be released in four days — like Christmas, but without all the annoying family obligations.
If you haven’t yet slapped down a credit card, and need some encouragement, here are two reviews from the product’s Amazon product page. Both reviewers saw the movie during its […]
In 2006, a New York Times travel writer, Fred Bernstein, visited the Meiji Mura Museum in Japan where the front portion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel was rebuilt after the remainder of the building was demolished in 1960s.
I turn a corner to see the entrance to the Imperial, behind a reflecting pool containing several […]
The documentary Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buildings and Legacy in Japan, by Karen Severns and Koichi Mori, released theatrically in 2005, will be available on DVD on September 25. At the time of its release, the film was lavishly praised.
In a review for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum, who grew up in a home […]