The "Love @ Osaka Project" at Osaka Station City has started, aiming to celebrate Valentine's Day this month and White Day on March 14, the final day of the event. Part of the event is a "Love Photo" project, seeking photographs of your special ones ... full story
In the hills of East Tennessee, art vastly different from the familiar was on display in the Ewing Gallery. Hideki Kimura, contemporary printmaker and professor of printmaking at Kyoto City University of the Arts, gave an insightful lecture into the ... full story
So there is a Japanese tradition in my work. I really like zen gardens and I often visited them in Japan, in Kyoto. And there is peace there. What do you want your audience to understand about you as an artist? I want my paintings to convey peace, ... full story
The Katsura Rikyu garden at the Imperial Villa in the ancient capital of Kyoto again claimed second spot in the ranking, followed by Ritsurin Park in Kagawa Prefecture. Famed for its arched bridge and the excellence of the pruning of its pines, ... full story
... KUSAMATRIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004 (traveled to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido); Eternity's Modernity, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2004 (traveled to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and other ... full story
None of this has to be true, but the tension between the tradition of nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and the desire to be contemporary is evident in "Kaori Watanabe: Good News of the Morning" at Kyoto's imura art gallery. Watanabe does not consider ... full story
... art: Bachmann Eckenstein, of Basel, Switzerland; Carole Davenport, of New York; Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art, of Kyoto, Japan; London Gallery, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan; Scholten Japanese Art, of New York; and The Art of Japan, of Medina, Washington. ... full story
Miyazawa and Smith will be joined by TOKYOPOP alum Svetlana Chmakova to show off their work — the first time North American art has ever been displayed at the museum. Smith and Miyezawa are both full-time residents of Japan now, and will be part of a ... full story
SINGAPORE.- For its sophomore edition, Art Stage Singapore 2012 presents even more significant and stunning large installation works than before. From intricately detailed sculptures to huge paintings, there is a wide spectrum of awe-inspiring pieces ... full story
The pictorial documents from these lectures were later donated by the Itten family to The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Takehisa took on 10 students for his painting course, and his handwritten "The Concept of Japanese Painting" for it was ... full story
