Auckland Art Museum in Chapel Hill has two Japanese-based exhibitions going on currently! Let's visit together to check them out! Admission is free! We will meet in front of the museum at 1 pm on Sunday, March 1st. Parking is free on campus and in Chapel Hill on Sundays.

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Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love
Ackland Art Museum || January 31 - April 12

Yayoi Kusama is one of the most admired of all contemporary artists. Her “Infinity Rooms,” mirrored and specially lit environments, have recently been a premier attraction for art lovers all over the world. This exhibition presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach to explore other aspects of her oeuvre, with a special concentration on the early works on paper of the 1950s, a full range of intimate “dot paintings” and “net paintings,” examples of her provocative sculpture and multi-media work, and one tabletop mirror box.

Toriawase: A Special Installation of Modern Japanese Art and Ceramics
Ackland Art Museum || January 31 - April 12

Toriawase is a Japanese concept that loosely means to choose and combine objects with exquisite care. This special installation approaches the combination of modern art and ceramics in this spirit, aiming less for a historical or scholarly approach and more for an intuitive, experiential orchestration of relationships and correspondences. Modern and contemporary Japanese painting and sculpture are not often displayed or considered alongside ceramics of the same period. The exhibition draws on the Ackland’s holdings, as well as three major private collections: James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach, Mina Levin and Ronald Schwarz, and Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz.