artists Xu Bing</a> and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Philadelphia-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Ai-Weiwei/85A57DDAF3D18CEC">Ai Weiwei show</a> how the past continues to inform art today.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Félix Bracquemond</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Philadelphia-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Ernest-Chaplet/0A9CB2DF6E1B7A22">Ernest Chaplet</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Philadelphia-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Joseph-Theodore-Deck/E0D9E3DA1CBE17A5">Théodore Deck</a>, François Laurin, and Albert-Louis <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Philadelphia-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Albert-Louis-Dammouse/10B74FAE1100854C">Dammouse incorporated subjects, decorations, and forms inspired by Japanese art into their ceramics while also experimenting with new techniques like barbotine (a method of decorating ceramics with colored clay slips) and glazes imitating highly prized examples of East Asian ceramics.</p><p>The works on view come from the collection of Larry A. Simms, a retired New Jersey public schoolteacher who amassed one of the most important private collections of “Japonisme” ceramics in the United States, many of which he has now donated to the <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Philadelphia-Museum-of-Art/"/Organization/Philadelphia-Museum-of-Art/5A2459E0D3A22381">Philadelphia Museum of Art</a>.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Fukasawa has been a hugely influential force in design for more than two decades. Best-known for his prior work as design director of MUJI—the Japanese “anti-brand” consumer goods company—Fukasawa has designed across a broad range of categories and media. Whether shaping electronics for a global market or collaborating with artisanal firms on fine furniture, Fukasawa advocates for a design philosophy of longevity, accessibility, and subtle humor over novelty, ephemerality, or blatant commercialism.</p><p>Presenting fully-realized production designs alongside the studio’s working sketches and models for select projects, Things in Themselves offers a rare opportunity to explore Fukasawa’s design ethos—prizing an essential “fit” between objects, users, and their environments—and creative process. This exhibition accompanies the 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award, and marks the first major solo presentation of Fukasawa’s work at a U.S. museum.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Christina Ramberg’s work</a> to date, will illuminate the artist’s encyclopedia of imagery exploring experiences of gender, sexuality, and normative ideals of female beauty.</p><p>Born in 1946, Ramberg has tended to be associated with the Chicago Imagists, a loose fellowship of artists in the mid-1960s who made vibrant work inspired by popular culture, from comic books to low-budget films and store-front displays. However, her exquisitely detailed, kinky aesthetic has always set her apart. Ramberg consistently worked in pursuit of a “coherent visual statement”, honing in on feminized aspects of the body and its erotic trappings: hairstyles, hands, corsets, shoes.</p><p>Sometimes, she would render these details as highly polished, fetishized forms; elsewhere, she would amalgamate them into almost abstract hybrid figures. As Ramberg indicated in a diary entry, her work exists within the fertile friction between opposing dyads: “abandon / restraint, concealment / revelation, strong / weak, chaos / order”.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />