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The KIWA exhibition in Takanabe!

The 27th Study Tour / 京都国際木版画協会(KIWA)春のイベント

Hokusai
 : Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts
with a short lecture by curators of the museum

Date：Mar. 18th(Sun.),2012 
Meeting place & time：at 13:00, In front of Ticket Counter near the entrance, the Museum of Kyoto (Takakura and Sanjo Street)
Fee：1000 yen (includes admission fee and a short lecture.)

Please apply via postcard, fax (075-702-1726) or email (sat-.steiner@nifty.com).

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第27回
京都国際木版画協会(KIWA)春のイベント
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< 葛飾北斎展～学芸員のミニトーク と共に～ >
アジア美術収蔵で世界的に知られるホノルル美術館に、
世界有数の北斎コレクションがあることはあまり知られていません。
その優品170点を網羅した本展には、6種の揃物、初公開2点を含む肉筆画3点なども展示され、北斎芸術に触れるまたとない機会となっています。
展示を見る前に、博物館学芸員による浮世絵についての解説もありますので、お楽しみに！

日時：2012年3月18日（日）
集合場所： 京都文化博物館　本館1F（チケット売り場前）
                13時00分集合
会費：1000 yen
   
一般参加(会員外)大歓迎！

申込方法：連絡先を明記し、返信葉書かFAX(075-702-1726)、
Eメール(sat-.steiner@nifty.com)で協会事務局へ

the 6th KIWA exhibition’s ARTIST POPULARITY POLL

In Japan, visitors to exhibitions will often be asked to fill out a simple form, if they want, requesting which work in the show was their favorite, and why. KIWA did this, too. Below are the results of the 6 th KIWA Exhibition held in the Kyoto City Museum March/April, 2011, to which over 1,200 visitors came.

The Popularity Poll is truly where we can learn what the public likes. This is one aspect KIWA has always been interested in showing thru our exhibitions. This time we introduce only the top 17 artists whose works received the most votes; 8 of them had also won prizes. Tastes differ, and our exhibitions convincingly reveal this. The judging results of so many of the other major exhibitions do not clearly reflect society’s likes or dislikes, but only, usually, one individual’s tastes, an “expert” who alone cannot possibility know everything that the public is currently thinking about with regards to art. How many times have you gone to an exhibition and been disappointed in the judge’s choices? They are his/her tastes, not the public’s.

Here is the poll. You may disagree with some of the results. I do. But I don’t represent the public, only my own, perhaps narrow view of print art.

President of KIWA,
Richard Steiner

You can see the 6th KIWA exhibition’s ARTIST POPULARITY POLL in the KIWA’s website!