Art

Exhibition. Paul Schimmel and Allan Schwartzman. Kazuo Shiraga’s Tales of the Water Margin

Please join Paul Schimmel and Allan Schwartzman on a visit to Kazuo Shiraga’s Tales of the Water Margin exhibition

Installation view of Kazuo Shiraga: Tales of the Water Margin at FM Virtual © Estate of Kazuo Shiraga; 2. Gutai: Kazuo Shiraga video still (2018), produced by Fergus McCaffrey and Documentary Japan 3. Shiraga Kazuo: The Water Margin Hero Series, Amagasaki Cultural Center cover (2018)

Press Releases 12 July 2020, 8:14 pm

Wednesday, July 15, 2020, 12pm (ET)
To celebrate the opening of Kazuo Shiraga: Tales of the Water Margin on FM Virtual, on-view July 15th through September 30th, we are pleased to invite you to a walk-through of the groundbreaking exhibition with Paul Schimmel and Allan Schwartzman on Wednesday, July 15th at 12pm (ET). Featuring twenty-seven large-scale masterworks on loan from Japanese and American museum collections, that are titled after the Chinese literary classic, Tales of the Water Margin; the exhibition examines Shiraga’s life-long love of Chinese culture through some of his most iconic foot-paintings.