This global survey of contemporary photography and video will feature 28 emerging and established artists from 14 countries whose works speak to and illuminate the new visual and social territory in which image making operates today. Artists include Sohei Nishino from Japan.
This exhibition is supported through the Exhibition Abroad Support Program.

Photo: Sohei Nishino, New York (detail), from the series Diorama Maps, 2006, light jet print. Courtesy the Michael Hoppen Gallery, London.

Japanese color woodcuts by painter/printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), widely regarded as one of the masters of the shin-hanga style, will be featured in this exhibition, together with porcelain from the 17th to 19th century and other Japanese ephemera like a paint box, silk painting and many books.

This exhibition is supported through JFNY Grant for Arts & Culture.

This touring exhibition on loan from The Japan Foundation to the International Village of Northeastern Univerisyt introduces the diverse range of projects launched by architects throughout the region affected by the devastating earthquake of March 11. It also includes a number of restoration proposals submitted by foreign architects. The exhibits consist of drawings and photographs in addition to related materials such as videos, models, furniture..Cardboard shelters that were actually used in the evacuation shelters will be displayed.

This exhibition is co-organized with the Consulate General of Japan in Boston.

Image: Tohoku Sky Village (c) Keiichiro Sako

This exhibition at the Sculpture Center brings together a group of artists who examine the construction of the interior through design and homemaking from critical perspectives, including the Japanese artist Yuki Kimura.
This event is supported through JFNY Grant for Arts & Culture.

Travel back in time and discover remarkable objects that illuminate the life, culture, and pageantry of the revered and feared Japanese warriors - from one of the best and largest collections in the world. Featuring more than 140 objects including helmets, full suits of exquisitely crafted armor, weapons, horse armor, and accoutrements used for both battle and ceremonies, the exhibition illustrates the evolution of the distinctive appearance and equipment of the samurai warrior through the centuries and examines their history.
This exhibition is supported through the Exhibition Abroad Support Program.

Image: Armor of the nimaitachidō type (nimaitachidō tōsei gusoku), Detail
Attributed Myōchin Yoshimichi (helmet bowl); Myōchin Munenori (armor) Muromachi period, about 1400 (helmet bowl); mid- Edo period, 18th century (armor)
Photograph by Brad Flowers © The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, Dallas
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Retrospective on the Art Theater Guild, the Japanese independent film company, will start from April 2, 2013, at Doc Films, Chicago, IL. This series features Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen, Susumu Hani, 1968), Ceremony (Gishiki, Nagisa Oshima, 1971),  Pastoral: Hide and Seek (Den'en ni shisu, Shuji Terayama, 1974).   This series is co-organized with Doc Films.

This exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art presents highlights from the museum's significant collection of iconic Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) in an entirely new way, uniting them with Carnegie Museum of Natural History's holdings of exquisite Japanese carved ivories (okimono). This exhibition is supported through JFNY Grant for Arts & Culture.

This exhibition at McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College examines cultural exchanges from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries through the movement of goods on Portuguese ships. The seventy works in the exhibition have been drawn from institutions and private collections in the United States, Portugal, Great Britain, and Brazil.
This exhibition is supported by The Japan Foundation through its JFNY Grant for Arts & Culture program.
Image:Nanban trade screen (nanban byo-bu), Japan, c. 1600-25
Six-panel screen (one of a pair); ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper
Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation