Pop-Up Talk: Curator Kit Brooks

Takeda Hideo 武田 秀雄 (born 1948, Osaka, Japan), The Final Illness of Taira Kiyomori (Taira Kiyomori no byōshi 平清盛病死) from the series Genpei 源平, 1985. Screenprint; 39.5 × 52.7 cm (image), 48 × 63 cm (sheet), 57.1 × 72.4 cm (frame). Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund (2026-10.5)

Short talks and Q&As on Museum topics

This month, Kit Brooks, the Museum’s curator of Asian art, will discuss the special exhibition Takeda Hideo’s Genpei: Defying Authority, which features a series of silkscreen prints that cynically reinterprets Japan’s Genpei War (1180–85) within the context of twentieth-century social upheavals.

After the talk, head upstairs to the Allen Adler and Frances Beatty Adler Gallery for an informal conversation with the curator.