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Join us for the 45th season of the Treasure Coast’s most celebrated arts and humanities lecture series. This lecture series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition 'Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui: Japanese Landscapes in Print'. The featured speakers will provide audiences with multiple perspectives to contextualize the exhibition’s themes.Patrons are invited to attend the lectures at the VBMA or stream them from the comfort of their homes.
Monday, February 1, 2027 at 4:30pm | The World Within the Image
Pico Iyer, Best-selling Author, Journalist, and Travel Writer
Register: vbmuseum.org/international-lecture-series
Can seasons serve as a secret religion? How can 1+ 1 add up to 3? And when do baseball games end in a tie? After 39 years living around the ancient Japanese capitals of Kyoto and Nara, best-selling writer Pico Iyer will explain how the unique perspectives seen in Japanese artwork reflect the distinctive values, priorities, and beliefs of the layered and enigmatic culture all around them. Trees are designated as official city guardians in Japan, emotions are kept out of public life, and even as the country is ever more modern and advanced, deep down it remains very much the world evoked by Hiroshige and Hokusai. With warm descriptions of everyday life in a small community, he will ask whether Japan might not at heart be an indigenous culture dressed in the cool clothes of the 21st century.
Pico Iyer is the author of 18 books, translated into 23 languages, including such best-sellers as The Art of Stillness, The Open Road, The Half Known Life and Aflame. His five talks for TED have received more than 12 million views so far, and he has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, Terry Gross and many others. Through his work he has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Award and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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3001 Riverside Park Dr, Vero Beach, FL, United States, Florida 32963
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