The Nightlife: Entertainments…

… of the Floating World: An Exhibit at the Scholten Gallery

by Marina Rybak

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We are in the midst of Asia Week New York 2013. Nine-day festivities celebrate and showcase Asian art throughout the city. The Big Apple is overflowing with artistic and cultural events, presented by various museums, public and private institutions, auction houses and top-notch leading Asian art specialists.
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Now through March 23rd, New York welcomes passionate Asian art enthusiasts from all over the world. It is the place to view, buy, sell and thoroughly enjoy  the ancient treasures and contemporary works of art from China, India, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, Japan and Korea.

A local event, which was born five years ago, has transformed nine days in March into highly thrilling and creatively stimulating international gathering.

After hopping from place to place to place last weekend a charming, small exhibit caught my attention. The Nightlife: Entertainments of the Floating World is on view at the Scholten Gallery through March 23.

by Keisai Eisen
Japanese woodblock prints are one of the specialties of the Gallery. The featured prints are known as “the pictures of the Floating World” and depict the amusements in the licensed red-light district – the pleasure seeking and the pleasure-giving world of Edo-period Japan (1600-1867).

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Their imagery is bursting with the colorful details and the experience of immersing myself into the sensuous beauty of these prints is completely transcending. I feel almost invisible, stumbling onto this distant world, which is still in full swing and secretly observing its daily and nocturnal rituals is enchanting.

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  1. Linda Stolow says:

    It’s beautiful. Keep up the good work.

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