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Have you two ever kissed before? Never while washing dishes.

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Today marks the official reopening of our Arts of Asia galleries, featuring both ancient and contemporary Chinese and Japanese art works. Continue your exploration into Asian artistic excellence with One: Xu Bing, a spotlight exhibition highlighting Square Word Calligraphy: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Walt Whitman, by one of China’s most important living artists. Created specifically for the Museum, the work celebrates Xu Bing’s close relationship with Brooklyn and pays homage to the famous Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman.⁠ 

Ban, a designer of houses and visitors’ centers and condominiums and towers, is perhaps more famous as a designer of emergency shelters, for people suffering from earthquakes and floods, for people escaping violence and genocide. 

For them, he has employed a signature material — recycled paper tubes of variable length and thickness. These are available all over the world: You find a smaller version of them at the center of a toilet paper or paper towel roll. Not only are they abundant, they are structurally sound and can serve as the basis for a shelter, a house or even a church. Ban has built all of these — for refugees from the Rwandan genocide in 1994; for victims of the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan; and for himself, in 1995, a weekend house at the foot of Mount Fuji.