{"id":25276,"date":"2015-05-12T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=25276"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:52:15","slug":"racu-the-cosmos-in-a-tea-bowl-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2015\/05\/12\/racu-the-cosmos-in-a-tea-bowl-la\/","title":{"rendered":"~RAKU: The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl \/ LA"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAKU: The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl
\nLACMA \/ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
\nthru JUNE 7, 2015<\/p>\n

of course, as soon as I start TRASH-TALKIN’ LA \/ LOS ANGELES !!
\nthere’s where I want to be !!
\nthere’s two shows going on down there, that I would totally, totally love to see.<\/p>\n

the first . . is a museum show on Raku pottery, the history of, and the unique design qualities of. in other words, magic, science, craft, form, function, design & ritual – all the things we’ve been talking about – in a nutshell \/ tea bowl. (More about the second – next week.)<\/p>\n

with the current fascination here in NYC on anything artisanal, but esp fashioned by hand from clay, porcelain, you name it . . you’d also<\/strong> have this in-depth article on the show, appearing in the Wall Street Journal, back in April 23, 2015 – at top of your desk, for weeks. too. well, if you are LUCKY !! enough to be in drought-land USA, LA !! – you have just a few more weeks to catch it.<\/p>\n

and why isn’t<\/em> this show – coming here ?
\nthat’s why most everybody, I know at least, is bitching about the museum scene.
\njust because you come from an institutional mind-set, does that mean you have to be so out of touch with the beat of the city, and more importantly its trending, beating heart ?
\nthe last museum show I saw with glee – was the JACK GOLDSTEIN retrospective at the The Jewish Museum, and that was quite awhile ago, about 2 years to the day actually. that’s not a very good statistic for such a with-it, arts-loving city with many many museums, and even many many more always hungry culture vultures !!
\nbut esp the ones loving anything – clay !!<\/p>\n

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\nARTS IN REVIEW, WALL STREET JOURNAL. THURSDAY APRIL 23, 2015<\/p>\n

I’m giving you the link to the WSJ review by DAVID MERMELSTEIN, so you can read it for yourself, because it is excellent.
\nit starts off:
\n“For 15 generations, just one family (!!) has crafted the hand-sculpted (rather than wheel-thrown) Japanese pottery known as Raku, which uses a low-fire<\/strong> technique to produce ceramic objects that bear an unmistakable variegated<\/strong> glaze.”<\/p>\n

and continues . . . “Now some 90 of them – dating from the late 1500s to the present – have been assembled . . ” <\/p>\n

see: A DYNASTY BUILT OF CLAY – WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/raku-the-cosmos-in-a-tea-bowl-reviewnow-on-view-at-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-1429738016<\/p>\n

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\nCHOJIRO (RAKU I) (!!) Tea Bowl named ‘Tarobo’, 16th C<\/strong>, Red Raku ware; glazed ceramic, Urasenke Foundation.
\nPhoto: Masayuki Miyahara via LACMA\/Raku: The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl<\/p>\n

see: <\/strong> Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Raku: The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl<\/a><\/p>\n

does one really need to say more<\/strong>, that<\/strong>is a Raku tea bowl by the first<\/strong> Raku master, Chojiro – 16th C – !!
\nthat’s a long<\/em> time ago. the US was only born 200 years ago.
\ncosmos in a tea bowl ? – yep !!<\/p>\n

so again.
\ntalking about the cosmos<\/strong>, masters of the museum universe that run this city, why isn’t this show coming here, aren’t we supposed to be the capital of cool, or what ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAKU: The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl LACMA \/ Los Angeles County Museum of Art thru JUNE 7, 2015 of course, as soon as I start TRASH-TALKIN’ LA \/ LOS ANGELES !! there’s where I want to be !! there’s two shows going on down there, that I would totally, totally love to see. the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25276"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25308,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276\/revisions\/25308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}