Now, a new museum set to open in Toronto next week, with more than double the Met's gallery space, is poised to establish North America's first dedicated home for Islamic art. Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki designed the 47,000 square-foot Aga Khan ... full story
Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation: A teenaged artist who was forced to stop selling his collages when Damien Hirst sent threats to his gallery (the collages ... full story
At “Balthus” at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, graphic Expressionism is evident in “Balthus and Mitsou” (1916), a series of ink drawings about the artist's travels with a cat. These were published in 1921 by his mother's lover, the German poet ... full story
The Japan Culture Center of Western New York, in partnership with the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, is proud to announce a new exhibition showcasing the work of Sarah Brayer, a Rochester-born artist living in Kyoto. Since the 1980s ... full story
The two-story home is located in the Gion neighborhood in Kyoto, Japan, a region notable for origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The F-House, however, was not inspired by the papercraft artform, but, rather, the architect folded in ... full story
KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Inamori Foundation today announced the 30th annual Kyoto Prize laureates: two pioneering researchers from the U.S. and one Japanese artist. Dr. Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer and Institute Professor at ... full story
KYOTO – Inuki Tachihara, a 62-year-old self-taught woodblock artist, has devoted half his life to reviving the lost beauty of ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Edo Period (1603-1867) by printing them exactly as they would have been made then, with their ... full story
Hiromi Moneyhun from Jacksonville is a paper-cut artist from Kyoto, Japan. Her three dimensional works combine traditional Japanese visual art forms with the “super- modernity” now found in Japan's largest cities. She has been most influenced by Edo ... full story
The journey from Kyoto, Japan, to Bangalore has been an enriching one for this Japanese artist who can speak, read and write Kannada, sing Kannada songs, and says she feels at home at Kundapur. Meet Megumi Sakakida Deepak for whom India is her ... full story
Kyotographie, now in its second year, aims to bridge that gap by putting photography as an art form and a narrative front and center in the court of the public. The overarching theme for this year's festival is “Our Environments”; the plural “S” is ... full story
