`Ink, Paper, Silk: One Hundred Years of Collecting Japanese Art` opens at BAMPFA
(Artdaily.org)

BAMPFA`s Japanese art collection began in 1919 with a remarkable donation of more than a thousand woodblock prints from the estate of UC Berkeley Professor of English William Dallam Armes. This exhibition features a selection of these exceptional prints, as well as hanging scroll paintings, screens, lacquerware, and ceramics that have entered the collection over the century since this transformative gift changed the small, mostly regional art collection of the University forever, creating a foundation for what would become BAMPFA’s extensive holdings of Asian art and helping catapult the museum into a new era of international art collecting. A remarkable group of surimono prints—small, privately published prints made for special occasions and intended as gifts—is on view, for the first