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Event Calendar for Johnson Museum of Art

October 7, 2016

Friday, October 7, 2016

American Sojourns and the Collecting of Japanese Art

For more than 250 years the Tokugawa government allowed foreigners only very limited access to Japan—that is, until 1853, when an American expedition led by...

JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970

Focusing on Japan’s place in major international exhibitions held in the Americas from 1876 onward, and finishing with a look at Japan’s first world’s fair...

Japonisme: The First Wave and Beyond

At the 1862 International Exhibition in London, Sir Rutherford Alcock, a former consul general in Japan and an early collector of Japanese material, mounted...

Signal to Code

Signal to Code [past event]

Signal to Code at the Johnson Museum is an extension of Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Goldsen Archive, on display in the Hirshland Gallery of...

We Went to the Fair

We Went to the Fair [past event]

The 1851 Crystal Palace Exposition in London is considered the first exhibition of its kind to showcase manufactured products from all over the world,...