One of the objects that catches your eye in “Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection,” which just opened at the Metropolitan Museum, is not what you might have expected to see at a show of Japanese ...

When Japan opened up to the world in the middle of the 19th century, Western merchant ships were quick to return home with exotic art from the once reclusive nation. The private galleries and ...

Bamboo is the culinary delight of pandas . . . and the shoots are palate-pleasers for humans. Bamboo can be sliced and molded so we can plank our floors with it, or make fabrics ready to wear . . . or ...

Some of the sculptures in “Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art” at the Bowers Museum are so uniform and outwardly perfect that they appear manufactured, not handmade. Others are twists of ...

LLOYD COTSEN BEGAN what he admits has been “a 40-year love affair” with Japanese bamboo baskets when he walked into an antique store in San Francisco in the 1950s. “I was attracted,” Cotsen says, “by ...

This presentation by Modern Twist guest curator Dr. Andreas Marks will look into the historical development of bamboo art in Japan. It will also provide an overview of the leading artists in the early ...

Bamboo is emerging as an ideal material for fashioning objects of art and home decoration. Nearly 230 different types of bamboo are found growing in the Western Ghats and South Indian States. This ...

The Abbey Collection of bamboo arts and crafts, the 20-year loving labor of New York collectors Dianne and Arthur Abbey, attracted 470,000 visitors when it showed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

In the watery villages along the southern part of the Yangtze River, bamboo is a major part of people's daily life. Before Wuzhen, a village in East China's Zhejiang Province, became famous for ...

Bamboo is one of the most potent symbols in Chinese culture, representing longevity, durability and flexibility and it has long been associated with moral integrity. Thus, the art of carving bamboo ...

“Panda candy” — that’s what the National Zoo’s bamboo procurement team told Christian Ostermann he was growing in his yard. Though more difficult to harvest than the other two kinds of bamboo growing ...

Bamboo is widely considered sustainable and eco-friendly. It's fast growing and requires little or no irrigation or fertilizer. Its vibration-damping qualities, impressive strength-to-weight ratio and ...