
Fathers and Sons: The Art of Filial Piety
by Jeffrey HantoverNavigating the sea of filial relationship is not easy for the son of an artist, especially in a society like Japan where filial piety has been a dominant ethos. How in the shadow of the father’s fame…

Ryoji Koie
It was with great sadness that I learnt of the recent death of Ryoji Koie, one of Japan’s most innovative and internationally famous post-war artists. I feel deeply privileged to have known him and am…

Firing the Phalluses: Rites of Passage in May Okafor’s Royal Gorgeousness
May Okafor is a contemporary Nigerian ceramist whose works proclaim, and rightly so, the centeredness of clay as a filtering medium in the deconstruction/reconstruction of life experiences