Eve Loh Kazuhara
@elkazu.bsky.social
ECR Japanese art historian. In Singapore.
Postwar Painting, Nihonga. Tanaka Isson and Amami Oshima.
Lectures at National University of Singapore and University of the Arts (Singapore).
Also sharing posts on Japanese art and culture events, in SG.
Postwar Painting, Nihonga. Tanaka Isson and Amami Oshima.
Lectures at National University of Singapore and University of the Arts (Singapore).
Also sharing posts on Japanese art and culture events, in SG.
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Eve Loh Kazuhara
@elkazu.bsky.social
· Dec 5
#20InfluentialBooks Join me for my list in #JapaneseArtHistory
"The challenge is to choose 20 books/ exhibition catalogues that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."
"The challenge is to choose 20 books/ exhibition catalogues that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."
GUTAI: Beyond the Canvas, exhibition at Whitestone Gallery Singapore opens tomorrow, 1.11 to 3.2
www.whitestone-gallery.com/blogs/galler...
www.whitestone-gallery.com/blogs/galler...
GUTAI: Beyond the Canvas | Whitestone Gallery
Whitestone Gallery Singapore is proud to present our first Gutai Movement showcase; GUTAI: Beyond the Canvas. Following our first exhibition ERUPTION: Japanese Post-War Avant-Garde in New Art Museum S...
www.whitestone-gallery.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
GUTAI: Beyond the Canvas, exhibition at Whitestone Gallery Singapore opens tomorrow, 1.11 to 3.2
www.whitestone-gallery.com/blogs/galler...
www.whitestone-gallery.com/blogs/galler...
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Hyperallergic staff and contributors picked the best art shows from around the world this year, from rare drawings by old masters to fresh takes on traditional crafts.
Top 50 Exhibitions Around the World in 2024
From lesser-known artists to big names, our staff and contributors compiled our favorite shows around the globe in a year of exceptional art.
hyperallergic.com
December 26, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Hyperallergic staff and contributors picked the best art shows from around the world this year, from rare drawings by old masters to fresh takes on traditional crafts.
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Happy holidays! I hope that all of the professors out there got your grading done and didn't have to deal with too many questions about your career choices. Here's a little story for you. cfiesler.medium.com/an-academic-...
An Academic Hallmark Christmas Movie
In the opening scene we meet our heroine: The Professor.
cfiesler.medium.com
December 24, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Happy holidays! I hope that all of the professors out there got your grading done and didn't have to deal with too many questions about your career choices. Here's a little story for you. cfiesler.medium.com/an-academic-...
Haniwa gingerbread cookies.
December 19, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Haniwa gingerbread cookies.
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Since Alison isn't in the sky 🦋, I'll share the exciting news that her book "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952" is out now! 🥳 I had the privilege of reading some of this great work in our writing group along the way! www.routledge.com/Envisioning-...
December 11, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Since Alison isn't in the sky 🦋, I'll share the exciting news that her book "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952" is out now! 🥳 I had the privilege of reading some of this great work in our writing group along the way! www.routledge.com/Envisioning-...
「列島」の絵画 「日本画」のレイトスタイル by 北澤憲昭 . This out of print book finally arrived, after looking for it the past 14 months. Paintings of the Archipelago: Nihonga’s late style. Potential for #20InfluentialBooks list on #JapaneseArtHistory but I haven’t read it. A wonderful way to end the semester!
December 11, 2024 at 4:06 PM
「列島」の絵画 「日本画」のレイトスタイル by 北澤憲昭 . This out of print book finally arrived, after looking for it the past 14 months. Paintings of the Archipelago: Nihonga’s late style. Potential for #20InfluentialBooks list on #JapaneseArtHistory but I haven’t read it. A wonderful way to end the semester!
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There are still a few weeks left in the year (though December is generally a quiet month for book proposals), but it looks like I’m going to close out 2024 with around 80% of total book proposals coming from men, 18% from women, and 2% from persons whose gender was not apparent/obvious.
December 6, 2024 at 9:42 PM
There are still a few weeks left in the year (though December is generally a quiet month for book proposals), but it looks like I’m going to close out 2024 with around 80% of total book proposals coming from men, 18% from women, and 2% from persons whose gender was not apparent/obvious.
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Some reflections on why (beyond the obvious) the painting of ancient statues has been controversial for so long. tinyurl.com/47bb2tud
The politics of coloured statues | Blog post | Mary Beard
There is no doubt at all that many if not most Greco-Roman statues were painted. That has been known for hundreds of years. Alma-Tadema knew it when he
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December 6, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Some reflections on why (beyond the obvious) the painting of ancient statues has been controversial for so long. tinyurl.com/47bb2tud
#20InfluentialBooks Join me for my list in #JapaneseArtHistory
"The challenge is to choose 20 books/ exhibition catalogues that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."
"The challenge is to choose 20 books/ exhibition catalogues that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."
December 5, 2024 at 2:30 AM
#20InfluentialBooks Join me for my list in #JapaneseArtHistory
"The challenge is to choose 20 books/ exhibition catalogues that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."
"The challenge is to choose 20 books/ exhibition catalogues that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."
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Please circulate among interested students!
The Department of the History of Art & Architecture at UMass Amherst invites applications for our two-year MA program WITH FUNDING! The deadline is January 15.
www.umass.edu/art-history/...
The Department of the History of Art & Architecture at UMass Amherst invites applications for our two-year MA program WITH FUNDING! The deadline is January 15.
www.umass.edu/art-history/...
Graduate Program : History of Art and Architecture : UMass AmherstUMass Collegiate MSeal of The University of Massachusetts Amherst - 1863
Learn more about graduate studies in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UMass Amherst.
www.umass.edu
December 3, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Please circulate among interested students!
The Department of the History of Art & Architecture at UMass Amherst invites applications for our two-year MA program WITH FUNDING! The deadline is January 15.
www.umass.edu/art-history/...
The Department of the History of Art & Architecture at UMass Amherst invites applications for our two-year MA program WITH FUNDING! The deadline is January 15.
www.umass.edu/art-history/...
Louise Bourgeois at the Mori Art Museum
"The pink tin is decorated with a motif of "Maman," a spider sculpture that symbolizes Bourgeois’s mother and is also self-portrait. The tin contains milk almonds reminiscent of the white eggs that "Maman" carries in its belly.
2,160 yen (incl. tax)"
"The pink tin is decorated with a motif of "Maman," a spider sculpture that symbolizes Bourgeois’s mother and is also self-portrait. The tin contains milk almonds reminiscent of the white eggs that "Maman" carries in its belly.
2,160 yen (incl. tax)"
December 4, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Louise Bourgeois at the Mori Art Museum
"The pink tin is decorated with a motif of "Maman," a spider sculpture that symbolizes Bourgeois’s mother and is also self-portrait. The tin contains milk almonds reminiscent of the white eggs that "Maman" carries in its belly.
2,160 yen (incl. tax)"
"The pink tin is decorated with a motif of "Maman," a spider sculpture that symbolizes Bourgeois’s mother and is also self-portrait. The tin contains milk almonds reminiscent of the white eggs that "Maman" carries in its belly.
2,160 yen (incl. tax)"
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Australia passes world-first law banning under-16s from social media despite safety concerns
Australia passes world-first law banning under-16s from social media despite safety concerns
Bill passes amid warning that process has been rushed and that a ban could push teenagers towards the dark web or into isolation
Australia’s parliament has passed a law that will aim to do what no other government has, and many parents have tried to:…
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Australia passes world-first law banning under-16s from social media despite safety concerns
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Whenever I give workshops on academic book publishing, authors inevitably have questions about how to talk with editors at conferences. Worry no more! Laura Portwood-Stacer has just published a free e-book on this very topic!
click.convertkit-mail.com/r8u0z4n5xpuo...
click.convertkit-mail.com/r8u0z4n5xpuo...
November 27, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Whenever I give workshops on academic book publishing, authors inevitably have questions about how to talk with editors at conferences. Worry no more! Laura Portwood-Stacer has just published a free e-book on this very topic!
click.convertkit-mail.com/r8u0z4n5xpuo...
click.convertkit-mail.com/r8u0z4n5xpuo...
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Hi! I’m a Public Historian and I host the funny BBC podcast YOU’RE DEAD TO ME which pairs up expert historians with comedians
I also write funny history books - 3 for kids & 3 for adults - and I used to work on the BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV comedy show
I love TV, movies, books, podcasts & Spurs 😀
I also write funny history books - 3 for kids & 3 for adults - and I used to work on the BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV comedy show
I love TV, movies, books, podcasts & Spurs 😀
November 13, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Hi! I’m a Public Historian and I host the funny BBC podcast YOU’RE DEAD TO ME which pairs up expert historians with comedians
I also write funny history books - 3 for kids & 3 for adults - and I used to work on the BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV comedy show
I love TV, movies, books, podcasts & Spurs 😀
I also write funny history books - 3 for kids & 3 for adults - and I used to work on the BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV comedy show
I love TV, movies, books, podcasts & Spurs 😀
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TIL about 馬来語熱, "Malay Fever," a surging popularity in the study of the Malaysian language in wartime Japan, spurred largely by ideas of the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
One clear indicator: this chart of the languages pursued by students at Keio University's Foreign Language School upon admission in 1942
One clear indicator: this chart of the languages pursued by students at Keio University's Foreign Language School upon admission in 1942
November 28, 2024 at 12:49 AM
TIL about 馬来語熱, "Malay Fever," a surging popularity in the study of the Malaysian language in wartime Japan, spurred largely by ideas of the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
One clear indicator: this chart of the languages pursued by students at Keio University's Foreign Language School upon admission in 1942
One clear indicator: this chart of the languages pursued by students at Keio University's Foreign Language School upon admission in 1942
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Dear researchers who are interested in pre-modern Japan,
NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it!
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...
The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:
NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it!
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...
The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:
November 27, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Dear researchers who are interested in pre-modern Japan,
NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it!
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...
The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:
NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it!
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...
The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:
Day Four of Grading and it’s done. Starting another batch ( 25 papers ) tomorrow. Celebrating with this. Looks good but tastes awful.
November 27, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Day Four of Grading and it’s done. Starting another batch ( 25 papers ) tomorrow. Celebrating with this. Looks good but tastes awful.
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In cases such as this, those who use racist and derogatory language or words are less subjected to this so-called 'civility rule'...
University of Sydney review proposes ‘civility rule’ that requires ‘meaning of contested words’ to be made clear
University of Sydney review proposes ‘civility rule’ that requires ‘meaning of contested words’ to be made clear
Lecturer questions if academics will have to explain context of every phrase they use, saying those who speak up on Palestine would be affected
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:16 AM
In cases such as this, those who use racist and derogatory language or words are less subjected to this so-called 'civility rule'...
Day Three of Grading
Marked over 65 percent of student essays today.
Into the last leg for tomorrow. Then repeat for the other course I’m teaching.
Marked over 65 percent of student essays today.
Into the last leg for tomorrow. Then repeat for the other course I’m teaching.
November 26, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Day Three of Grading
Marked over 65 percent of student essays today.
Into the last leg for tomorrow. Then repeat for the other course I’m teaching.
Marked over 65 percent of student essays today.
Into the last leg for tomorrow. Then repeat for the other course I’m teaching.
子犬の絵画史 たのしい日本美術
History of Cute Puppy Paintings by Kodansha 2022
Includes works by Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Yosa Buson, Ito Jakuchu.
#JapaneseArtBook wishlist
History of Cute Puppy Paintings by Kodansha 2022
Includes works by Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Yosa Buson, Ito Jakuchu.
#JapaneseArtBook wishlist
November 26, 2024 at 6:01 AM
子犬の絵画史 たのしい日本美術
History of Cute Puppy Paintings by Kodansha 2022
Includes works by Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Yosa Buson, Ito Jakuchu.
#JapaneseArtBook wishlist
History of Cute Puppy Paintings by Kodansha 2022
Includes works by Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Yosa Buson, Ito Jakuchu.
#JapaneseArtBook wishlist
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I was interviewed by the Japan Times for this article about why Bluesky is "booming" in Japan:
www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
Average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October, while figures for X were down over that time.
www.japantimes.co.jp
November 25, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I was interviewed by the Japan Times for this article about why Bluesky is "booming" in Japan:
www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
Day Two of Grading went extremely sidetracked due to parental duties. Graded one of the best essay I’ve seen this cohort and my Gen Alpha received an award at school for having the best Poster presentation. Win-win!
November 25, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Day Two of Grading went extremely sidetracked due to parental duties. Graded one of the best essay I’ve seen this cohort and my Gen Alpha received an award at school for having the best Poster presentation. Win-win!
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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
Grading Day Two 📃
It’s Sunday so not much can be accomplished but we are on a tight deadline here.
This however, got me off to a great start. If anyone is near a Kaldi, grab this. It transforms your average toast into Kouign Amann. I wished I had bought more back with me here.
It’s Sunday so not much can be accomplished but we are on a tight deadline here.
This however, got me off to a great start. If anyone is near a Kaldi, grab this. It transforms your average toast into Kouign Amann. I wished I had bought more back with me here.
November 24, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Grading Day Two 📃
It’s Sunday so not much can be accomplished but we are on a tight deadline here.
This however, got me off to a great start. If anyone is near a Kaldi, grab this. It transforms your average toast into Kouign Amann. I wished I had bought more back with me here.
It’s Sunday so not much can be accomplished but we are on a tight deadline here.
This however, got me off to a great start. If anyone is near a Kaldi, grab this. It transforms your average toast into Kouign Amann. I wished I had bought more back with me here.