Art of Impermanence

Adriana Proser is John H. Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society. Over the last 15 years, she has organised and co-organised more than 40 exhibitions featuring diverse works from all over Asia. At Asia Society, Dr. Proser has served as Asia Society's in-house and co-curator for such exhibitions as Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860, Buddhist Arts of Myanmar, and Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan. Her publications include Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art (Asia Society Museum and Yale University Press, 2010), for which she served as editor, contributor, as well as exhibition curator. Melinda Takeuchi holds a joint appointment in the Department of Art and Art History and in Asian Languages, Stanford University. She specialises in Japanese painting, calligraphy, and print culture. Her book Taiga's True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan (Stanford Press, 1992) won the Association for Asian Studies John Whitney Hall Prize for best book in the humanities and social sciences treating Japan and Korea, as well as Tokyo University's Arisawa prize. She is a co-author of Worlds Seen and Imagined: Japanese Screens from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts (1995) with Taizo Kuroda and Yuzo Yamane, published by the Asia Society, New York.

• The Art of the Ephemeral;Works in the Exhibition:I. Retrieving Lost Worlds; II. Buddhism: Perpetual Impermanence; III. Tea: Choreographed Ephemerality; IV. Transforming Impermanence into Art.