Events

16 February 2012

29th Meat Day

Review by Michael Sullivan In Japan there is a curious word play regarding the 29th day of the month in Japanese, put into just its number components it creates the word ni-kyuu [二九] which is the same as niku [肉] which means meat. So, quite often many people can be found eating meat on this [...]

4 August 2010

Unearthed

Unearthed exhibition
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Tuesday 22 June – Sunday 29 August 2010
This exhibition brings together prehistoric ceramic figurines from the Balkans and Japan for the first time. Over 100 figurines from Albania, Macedonia, Japan, Romania and the UK are on display, including ornate Jomon figurines (known as dogu) from the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection.