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These days in American poetry almost everybody is somebody. The poet’s name often finds its way into stanzas and titles. Epistolary poems are self-addressed. Even the ekphrastic is made to reflect the self—art often interpreted through the lens of autobiography...

[From April Issue 2013] Located roughly in the center of Honshu, Shizuoka Prefecture is home not only to Mount Fuji – Japan’s national symbol – but also to other beautiful natural features: mountains, the sea and lakes. This prefecture...

Songbook for “Song of the Era of Erotic Feelings” (Erokan jidai no uta), 1930, Saitō Kazō, Japanese, 1887–1955, inks on paper, 16 x 20 in. Deco Japan at Seattle Asian Art Museum is a traveling exhibition that originated from Japan Society in New York...

October 20, 2015–July 31, 2016 (rotation in early February) Exhibition Location: Arts of Japan, The Sackler Wing Galleries, second floor, Galleries 223–231 A spectacular array of Japanese works of art will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Johannes Vermeer, “Girl with the Red Hat,” circa 1665–66, oil on panel, 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.53 Once upon a time, the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) used to show a ticketed exhibition...