NEW YORK, March 11, 2020 — In historical Japan, commentaries on Buddhist scripture and the production of poetry provided two means of communicating about the ephemeral nature of human existence. Cleveland Museum of Art curator of Japanese art Sinéad Vilbar lectures on these topics of impermanence as they relate to the objects found in Asia Society Museum's spring 2020 exhibition The Art of Impermanence: Japanese Works from the John C. Weber Collection and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection. (1 hr., 1 min.)