| Shinran – Founder of the Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Sect of Buddhism |
March 17
(Thursday)
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May 29
(Sunday) |
Through the National Treasures and the Important Cultural Properties in temple collections from the Higashi and Nishi Honganji, and the respective head temples of the ten schools of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, visitors will be able to consider 'Shinran's Teachings and Life,' 'The Development of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism,' and the 'Transmitted Treasures and Art of the Respective Schools.' Including the National Treasure 'Kyogyoshinsho – Bandobon (Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)' along with nine other National Treasures and 36 Important Cultural Properties, approximately 130 works will be exhibited. |
| Region of Encounter – Open-Air Art Exhibition |
March 28
(Monday)
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April 17
(Sunday) |
This exhibition of works targets contributions from the young stratum of artists (those under 30 years of age). Aspiring artists shouldering the future of art will offer their works situated in the green areas within the precincts of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. This will create an encounter with new plastic artworks in the fields of sculpture and the crafts among others, offering the opportunity for searching out new expressive possibilities. |
| Kyoten 2011 |
June 14
(Tuesday)
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June 30
(Thursday) |
This public entry exhibition is sponsored by Kyoto City. Selected and prize-winning entries from across six fields, nihonga, yoga (Western style paintings), crafts, sculpture, prints and calligraphy, will be exhibited. |
| Communication: Visualizing the Human Connection in the Age of Vermeer |
June 25
(Saturday)
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October 16
(Sunday) |
C Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest) In 17th century Dutch painting the conversing between family members and lovers can be seen in great abundance – a focal point being the written letter. Through representative painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, and Gerard ter Borch, we can lay witness to these familial bonds and dialogues. The museum is the first to show Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter following its restoration and approximately 50 works gathered from throughout Europe and America will be exhibited. |
| Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art |
September 13
(Tuesday)
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November 27
(Sunday) |
National Gallery of Art, Washington Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer All of the works forming the collection of The National Gallery of Art, Washington, in the American capital, were donations by the citizenry of the country. The opportunity presented by large scale renovations being carried out since the 70 years from when the gallery was founded has made it possible to realize the assembly for exhibition of its masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism which the gallery boasts. Beginning with a section introducing Courbet and Corot, then Manet as a forerunner of Impressionism, the exhibition consists of 83 works that pass through the Impressionist generations including Monet, Renoir, and Degas and through to the Post-Impressionism of Cézanne, Van Gogh and others. |
| Masterpieces from the Permanent CollectionI Ⅰ : Searching Kyoto for Art's 'Spirit' |
October 28
(Friday)
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January 15
(Sunday) |
In Kyoto, long the cultural and artistic center, art became one nucleus encountering modernization, adjusting to a new environment of creation and activity. In addition to the foundation of the present museum in the early Showa period, the successive developments of subsequent generations were targeted. The exhibition presents exemplary works from the museum's collection acquired since its foundation through to the present day. The exhibition takes the opportunity to search out the spirit of the pioneers and their contemporaries who gathered in Kyoto and the spirit of the culture reflected in their works. Works chosen from various fields including those by Kikuchi Keigetsu, Asai Chu, Kiyomizu Kyubei, Tomioka Tessai and others will be exhibited. |
| Special Exhibition Art Exhibition of the 26th National Cultural Festival,Kyoto,2011 (Japanese-style painting, Western-style painting, Calligraphy, Sculpture) ～ Spirit, Dance in the Ancient Capital, the World of Beauty～ |
October 29
(Saturday)
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November 6
(Sunday) |
This art exhibition, the cultural festival of the people, is 'the largest domestic cultural festival.' In various areas of the arts, public contributions of artworks by those intimate with creative activity from around the country are received, resulting in an array of superb works to be exhibited, generating a space for an encounter with the arts. |
| The 43rd Nitten Kyoto Exhibition |
December 10
(Saturday)
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January 13
(Friday) |
Japan's largest open entry exhibition (Nitten) arrives in Kyoto. Along with a core 300 works in the fields of nihonga, yoga (painting in Western styles), sculpture, applied arts and calligraphy being exhibited around the country, another 300 works by local artists from Kyoto and Shiga brings a total of 600 works to exhibition. |
| Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection Ⅱ: Considering Pattern/Design |
January 27
(Friday)
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March 25
(Sunday) |
Images appearing in craft are not called pictures, but pattern or design. Works repeating over again the same pattern are in existence as are the designs of single scenes. Designs are not drawn with the brush but carved, embedded or piled up in a variety of extensive methods. From traditional patterns to the original designs of contemporary craftsmen/women, and all the while searching through the various aspects of pattern/design, the exhibition approaches the attractions of pattern/design of the craft image in distinction to that of the picture. Works by Ito Suiko, Tomimoto Kenkichi, Kamisaka Sekka, and Minagawa Gekka among others will be exhibited. |
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