Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, an exhibition at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, NYPL is not listed among the online exhibitions at the New York Public Library. The "Related Online Resources", however, include illustrations from two ehon (picture books) and an exhibition brochure in PDF format. The ehon, especially the book by Kamisaka Sekka, are beautiful and well-reproduced. Both use Flash as the display medium, so that zooming leads to pixilation of the images, but sometimes it's worth it to see smaller details. The PDF brochure is informative, not boring, and, while including references to the display, is complete in itself.
The New York Times exhibition review Centuries of Fleeting Moments, Timeless on the Page by Edward Rothstein is a good critical review.
October 31, 2006
Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan
October 12, 2006
National Museum of Health and Medicine | n m h m
The newest exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine | n m h m is "Scarred for Life : Monoprints of Surgical Scars" by Ted Meyer. While the webpage for the exhibit has a few images and a good description of the show, what is truly useful is the exibit catalog in PDF format. It is a fairly high quality publication and while the images are the size they would be in a paper catalogue, it is possible to 'zoom' them a bit to see more detail.
The way the museum webpage is set up can be a bit confusing since the catalogue is mentioned on the home page, but not in the exhibit webpage. This is a temporary exhibit but the Museum has listed all of their exhibits so it is possible that the catalogue will remain in their part of cyberspace.
I originally found out about this exhibit through a review in the New York Times. This review, like most (all?) reviews, is available to members of NYTimes.com ( free access through a one-time registration), not just for subscribers to Times Select.
