New York Review of Books: Kamakura Exhibition Is 'Rapturously Beautiful'
Asia Society’s Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan exhibition, whose launch on February 9 kicked off the organization's Season of Japan, has already garnered praise in previews by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, while the New Yorker called the "small but alluring" exhibition "superb." In a new review published on February 20, the New York Review of Books referred to the exhibition as "rapturously beautiful," calling the statues "miracles of technique."
“The show is very small — just one room with only about two dozen statues and another dozen or so items — and yet it is rapturously beautiful and deserves more visitors than its scale might suggest,” the review, written by Andrew Butterfield, said. “We know that the artists who made these works thought of them as animate presences. Nearly a thousand years later the sculptures live on still.”
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The Kamakura exhibition was co-curated by Ive Covaci, guest curator, and Adriana Proser, John H Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society, and is on display at Asia Society Museum in New York through May 8.