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Arts Fair
Japanese Plum
Arts Fair
Japanese Plum
Japanese Plum
Ethereal East meets wondering West in the Metropolitan Museum's new galleries for Japanese art which spans the centuries from prehistory to the modem era. Thanks to Steven Rockefeller, a contemporary surprise is hidden among the ancient treasures. A fountain stone by American sculptor Isamu Noguchi evokes the contemplative spirit of Japan's great garden tradition: a mirror-flat sheet of water brims over the sharply chiseled edges of a basalt boulder onto white river rocks from a Shinto shrine. Compare this Zen stillness with Noguchi's Kouros in the Wallace Wing for twentieth-century art. Only a short walk, but a world away.
STEPHEN JAMAIL
