2007.11.1. SAM

2007.11.1. First Thursday. Free admission to Seattle Art Museum. Currently a special exhibition titled "Japan Envisions the West": 16th–19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum, is $3/2 for the day. It explores how the Japanese saw Westerners and how Japanese artists responded to and interpreted Western art and culture. So quite a few Dutch works, as for the longest time, only Chinese and Dutch were allowed to trade, and only in Nagasaki. Total 140 pieces. Part is displayed in November, and part in December. Not a whole lot interesting. Quite some objects were crude exports that Dutch merchants foresaw that would sell well in the west.