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Excursion Archives FY2014 ~ July 1, 2013 – November 19, 2015

 

The Asian Arts Council organizes bus trips to other Southern California institutions as well as other travel opportunities to places featuring Asian Art.

Bus Day Trips - click date for flyer

Thursday, November 19, 2015: Bowers Museum - Trip cancelled Join the Asian Arts Council (AAC) for a bus trip to The Bowers Museum of Art on Thursday, November 19, 2015. We will visit two special exhibitions! The trip includes lunch at the Bowers. Download a flyer now and sign up by November 9th for this trip with a "Modern Twist."

Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art Curated by Andreas Marks, August Lecture meeting speaker, formerly from the Clark Center
Bamboo is a quintessential part of Japanese culture, shaping the country's social, artistic, and spiritual landscape. Although bamboo is an abundant natural resource, it is a challenging artistic medium with less than 100 professional bamboo artists in Japan today. This exhibit brings 17 of those masters in exploring the innovative shape bamboo art has taken since the mid-twentieth century.
The Red that Colored the World
The color Red has inspired artists' imaginations and seduced viewers for millennia. Artists and dyers for centuries strived to find the best color source. Their quest ended in the Aztec marketplace of 16th-century Mexico, the American cochineal bug. This exhibit translates the cochineal story into three dimensions, following the precious bug juice and its use in art from Mexico to Europe to the U.S. and beyond. Highlighting 100 objects-textiles, sculpture, paintings, manuscripts, decorative arts, clothing and more. Sacred Realms: Temple Murals by Shashi Dhoj Tulachan from the Gayle and Edward P. Roski Collection
The nine oversized paintings shown in this exhibition are all the work of one extraordinary 69-year-old Buddhist monk named Shashi Dhoj Tulachan, a second generation thangka artist living in Tuksche, a remote village located in Mustang, Nepal's northernmost district adjacent to Tibet.

Saturday, March 8, 2014: We visited Long Beach and Los Angeles. We enjoyed a tour of the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, at Long Beach State, shown off by its Senior Director, Jeanette Schelin, with additional help from Professor Kendall Brown. Professor Brown then guided us to the CSULB University Art Museum, where we saw Traditions Transfigured: the Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi, a fascinating exhibit curated by Dr. Brown and several students. The history of Noh Theatre was explained in text and video. A seventeenth century Noh mask from LACMA’s collection was on view, and then the extraordinary contemporary Noh masks by Bidou Yamaguchi ranging from the Mona Lisa to Angelina Jolie.

From there we went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, to hear Yukio Lippit of Harvard University lecture on The Art of the Future: Itō Jakuchū’s Colorful Realm. This related directly to the current exhibit of the Price Collection being shown in the Japanese Pavilion, which we visited after the lecture. Kendall Brown was kind enough to join us at LACMA and gave us a very informative tour of the Price Collection.

Monday, June 30, 2014: Three great art exhibits in L.A. First a visit LACMA, where there were two terrific exhibitions of Asian art interest: Chinese Paintings in Japanese Collections, part II, and Treasures from Korea - Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Then, we were off to the Norton Simon Museum to see In the Land of Snow: Buddhist Art of the Himalayas.

Long-distance excursion:
San Francisco Trip - July 11-13, 2013

We visited San Francisco where we saw the Asian Art Museum’s exhibition called In the Moment: Japanese Art from the Larry Ellison Collection. In addition, members attended a symposium on Ellison’s collection. This trip sold out, and was a highlight of the year!

Kathleen Suros and Gordon Brodfuehrer planned the itinerary, and transportation was provided by mini-bus. Each night there were Bites and Beverages provided before wonderful non-hosted group dinners at recommended restaurants.

Thursday: Arrive in San Francisco, settle in and visit a jeweler in her home studio. She is an artist who specializes in crafting beautiful contemporary art pieces utilizing ancient jades and contemporary hand-dyed silk cords.

Friday: Guided tour of the exhibition In the Moment: Japanese Art of the Larry Ellison Collection at the Asian Art Museum, and free time to enjoy the museum’s art works and gift shop. At the April lecture meeting we heard about the exhibition from Laura Allen, curator of the exhibition, which shows the inspiration for his home decor and collection. Visit a private Japanese collection. We visited the Xanadu Gallery, specializing in Asian antiques. The owner of Xanadu spoke at the June AAC meeting on Chinese snuff bottles, and the gallery was spectacular.

Saturday: Attend the In the Moment symposium at the Asian Art Museum with an Ikebana Workshop available during the lunch break. There was a visit to a private Japanese art collection and a fascinating visit with the collectors.