To support the participation of U.S.–based artists in the 2023 edition of the March Meeting of the Sharjah Biennial (UAE). Entitled Thinking Historically in the Present, the convening explores the multiplicity of interpretations of time and place that exist outside of Euro-American-centric perspectives. The March Meeting’s video-recorded sessions and papers are accessible online for free on the organization’s website.
To support Viva Video!: The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota at each co-organizing institution: The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. The exhibition is the first major survey of Shigeko Kubota in Japan in nearly three decades. A bilingual catalogue in Japanese and English accompanies the exhibition.
To support A Retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark, the first Asian retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark, an American conceptual artist who opened new horizons in sculpture and photography. The exhibition re-evaluates the artist’s pioneering examples of site-specific and installation works from a contemporary standpoint. A catalogue will be published by the museum in both Japanese and English.
To support Minimalism: Space, Light, Object, an exhibition that aims to introduce local audiences to Minimalism, an influential postwar movement most strongly associated with the US, and to consider the international practice and manifestations that continue to shape contemporary art and culture today. A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.
To establish a visiting professorship in Japan to be shared by Doshisha University and Kobe University. Throughout this program, three American art historians will reside in Kyoto for one year each, offering four courses annually in American art history before 1980.
To support the development of Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945 in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Shanghai Museum. The exhibition is currently proposed to be shown at the Shanghai Museum in fall 2018.
To support Mary Cassatt Retrospective, an exhibition held at the Yokohama Museum of Art and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. The accompanying English- and Japanese-language catalogue is published by NHK Promotions, Inc. (Tokyo).
To support the catalogue and 2010–2011 exhibition Monet and the American Painters of Giverny, co-organized by the Bunkamura Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and traveling to three venues in Japan. The exhibition introduces Japanese audiences to numerous American artists who lived and worked in the Normandy village of Giverny, where Claude Monet made his home.
To support “Multi-Locale Pops in the 1960s,” a symposium that brings together seven prominent postwar art specialists to promote scholarship of American art from a global perspective through discussion of the international development of Pop Art in Latin America, Asia, New York, and California.
To support a retrospective of the work of James McNeill Whistler, which visits the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Yokohama Museum of Art. The first of its kind since 1987, this exhibition introduces the artist’s work to the Japanese public, paying special attention to the influence of Japanese art on the development of his style. A catalogue accompanies the project.
To support the exhibition Cy Twombly—Fifty Years of Works on Paper, which is the first exhibition of Twombly’s work to be held in Japan. The exhibition takes place at the Hara Museum of Contemporary At, Tokyo, and the Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, and is accompanied by educational programing and a small introductory catalogue in both Japanese and English.
To support the 2013–14 exhibition, Art Across America, at the National Museum of Korea, Daejeon Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (under the title America: Painting a Nation). Co-organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Museum of Korea, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, the exhibition is the first major survey of historical American art mounted in Korea and Australia and features more than 100 American paintings and six vignettes of decorative arts and design drawn from the collections of the U.S. partners. In addition to the support provided to the co-organizers, the National Museum of Korea and the Art Gallery of New South Wales received funding for a series of public lectures, education programs, and a major publication featuring texts in Korean and English.
