Celebrating Japanese Art - A Curator's Perspective

The Reception & the Art of Japan presentation will be held inside the Anne Cox Chambers Wing and the Curator Conversation will be held inside the Hill Auditorium at The High Museum of Art, located at 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309,

For map and directions, please visit https://high.org/directions-and-parking/directions-tab.

Aaron Rio is the Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He is a specialist of premodern Japanese painting. His work has been published in books such as The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures (Cambridge, 2014), Boundless Peaks: Ink Paintings by Minol Araki (Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2017), and many others. He holds a PhD from Columbia University, where he researched ink painting in the city of Kamakura during the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

Kyoto Cultural Association aims to conserve precious cultural properties and tradition representing Japan by using both digital technology and technique of traditional craftsmanship in Kyoto, and to carry out cultural exchange as to support development and improvement of cultural activities and tradition in Kyoto.

This program is supported by a grant to the National Association of Japan America Societies (NAJAS) from the United States-Japan Foundation. We are grateful for their support.