Fine Art

A thangka in lamplight, a woodblock still wet, a Ghanaian movie poster. Fine art spans Japan, China, Tibet, India, Bali, Ghana, Cuba, Europe and the United States, from ukiyo-e woodblock prints and Chinese scrolls to contemporary painting. Japanese prints run from Kuniyoshi’s 47 Ronin and Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred Aspects of the Moon to Kogyo’s Noh drama and shunga. China brings calligraphy scrolls, ancestor portraits and the posters and photographs of the Cultural Revolution; Tibet its thangkas; India the pat scrolls of Santhal storytellers; Bali narrative painting; the Yao Taoist ritual painting. Ghana gives hand-painted movie posters of the 1980s video-club era, Cuba the Angels of Havana photographs, and Europe hand-colored engravings and maps.

A thangka in a stairwell, woodblocks along a gallery wall or a Ghanaian poster over a dining table each change a room’s temperature, and living American painters such as Brian Sindler, Bob Meyer and Mark Westervelt carry the conversation forward.