Japan Society - Cross Currents

Opened 1999
New York, New York

73 individual works from China, Korea, and Japan, owned by private New York collectors. Works ranged from ancient bronzes and wooden Buddhas to an ox horn chest and a pair of twenty-foot-long screens. The design aimed to create a dramatic yet subdued setting of diffused light to best offset the magnificent objects, and featured wall and table cases and an elaborate tearoom installation.