According to CultureGrrl, the National Tokyo Museum has temporarily closed to save electricity, but reports no serious damage and plans to open on Saturday with reduced hours and partial access, while Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, which has no permanent ... full story
In two views of Narita International Airport, 2005, Yamaguchi Akira employs the pictorial devices associated with the Seventeenth Century "famous views" of Kyoto, only to insert scenes of environmental despoliation within the familiar golden, ... full story
Her work is currently displayed in many museum collections throughout the world, including that of the Smithsonian Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Art in Kyoto. Some of Takaezu's pieces are on display at the ... full story
The college recently started an exchange program with an art school in Kyoto, Japan, and offers short-term courses overseas, including one in Venice. Barrett, with her international experience, is a good fit for the school at this time, ... full story
A mere two-hour bullet-train ride away, Nagoya galleries often visit Tokyo, the upcoming “Art Fair Tokyo” in April entertaining several. Nichido and Nagoya Garou are some big-name participants, but there are others worthy of mention. ... full story
In earlier exhibitions he has shown complicity with both the destruction and the resurrection of nihonga, which he pursues in his current show at the Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery. It is the essentialism of the Japanese people and the nation as ... full story
Last year he won the Kyoto Prize, one of the most prestigious honours in the arts. The prints were stolen on Saturday but the gallery's management only ... full story
COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, KYOTO He did this by turning away from representations of the body politic, heavily emphasizing the self and ... full story
A recent sabbatical in Kyoto, Japan, influenced the works of Lori Ellis, an associate professor and chair of Art and Art History Department. ... full story
