Lecture | The Purrfect Subject: Cats in Japanese Art Thursday, August 29, 2024 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Konoshima Okoku, Tigers, 1902, one of a pair of six-panel gold-ground folding screens; ink, color, gofun, and gold leaf on paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Sandra Tirey and Jan van Lohuizen.
Rhiannon Paget
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
Konoshima Okoku, Tigers, 1902, pair of six-panel gold-ground folding screens; ink, color, gofun, and gold leaf on paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Sandra Tirey and Jan van Lohuizen.
August 29, 2024
Rhiannon Paget, curator of Asian art at the Ringling Museum in Florida, speaks about her new book, Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art. Inspired by the exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, this lecture celebrates cats and the feline image in Japanese art and the Meiji Period.
Plan Your Visit
- This program is free with Museum admission. The lecture takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater, located in the Law Building. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map
About the Speaker
Rhiannon Paget is the curator of Asian art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Paget has published research on paintings, textiles, popular visual culture, and especially woodblock prints. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including Mountains of the Mind: Scholars’ Rocks in China and Beyond and Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening.
“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is organized by the Japanese Art Society of America (JASA), with funds provided by JASA members, to celebrate its 50th Anniversary, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
In Houston, major support is provided by:
Bobbie Nau
Additional generous support is provided by:
Kathy and Glen Gondo
Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs
Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
Anne and Albert Chao
Daikin Comfort Technologies
Marty and Kathy Goossen
Milton D. Rosenau, Jr. and Dr. Ellen R. Gritz
Dr. Ritsuko Komaki
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.
Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.
Miwa Sakashita and Dr. John R. Stroehlein
Nanako and Dale Tingleaf
The exhibition catalogue is made possible with funds provided by The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and The Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art, Columbia University.
Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Houston Junior Woman's Club; Sharon G. Dies; Sterling-Turner Foundation; Susan Vaughan Foundation; and additional generous donors.
General admission to the MFAH is free on Thursdays, courtesy of Shell Oil Company.