Mrs. Hawayo Takata (Takata Sensei) brought Reiki from Japan to the West in 1937 and continued to practice and teach until her passing in 1980. Because of her devotion, Reiki has been passed on to millions of people all over the world, and the numbers continue to grow! And as you will see, if it wasn’t for her, Reiki most likely would never have been discovered by the West and even in Japan would have been practiced secretly by only a small number of people.

Collection gallery. Fall 2019–Summer 2021. After Russia entered World War I in 1914, Natalia Goncharova and Olga Rozanova each made a series of prints dramatizing the conflict. Goncharova’s visions of angels watching over the Russian troops reflected the prevailing patriotism of the war’s early years. Rozanova began producing her War prints one year later, when the country had begun to suffer disastrous military defeats; her fractured forms convey the cataclysmic confusion. Both series extend from the artists’ preoccupation with handmade books—thin, crudely bound volumes in which their rough, almost childlike illustrations mingle with the experimental language of their poet-collaborators. Their radical approach to art, spurred by exchanges with French and German avant-garde groups, was meant as a rebuke to Russia’s conservative traditions. “Typical of our age is a hunger for freedom,” said Rozanova, “a longing for freedom, a hunger to see the world transformed.”

In her new Book of Earth, published by Abrams, Heidi Gustafson takes us on a journey through rare pigments and their landscapes.

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Two illustrations for Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health about how human activities like deforestation have directly and indirectly fueled the spread of zoonotic diseases. Flourishing, diverse...

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