It's a performance art piece modeled after Yoko Ono's 1964 work “Cut Piece,” which she premiered in Kyoto, Japan, and repeated at least a half-dozen times with slight variations. In it, she knelt onstage while audience members snipped pieces from a ...full story
The reference is to Ogata Korin, an artist central to its history. Korin, born in Kyoto in 1658, the son of a wealthy cloth merchant, studied painting under teachers associated with the conservative, Chinese-influenced Kano family style favored by the ...full story
The ceremony will be presented in the Wind in the Pines Hut, which was built for the museum in Kyoto, Japan, and reassembled on the museum grounds. Admission is free but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Guests are ...full story
The city of Kyoto will entertain visitors with Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival from Saturday until Oct. 28. In addition to performances by artists from Brazil, Britain, Germany, Ireland, Japan and Singapore, various lectures, exhibitions ...full story
Manga is a type of comic book which conforms to a style of Japanese art that dates back to the late 19th century. Since the 1950s, the medium has grown to become one of the most popular reading forms in the region with people of all ages indulging in ...full story
It will be fascinating to see how Ikezawa's creative way of improvising complements Amplified Elephant's avant-garde sound art. Ikezawa is a renowned figure in Tokyo's experimental music scene and plays in a lot of bands including Oncenth Trio and OKHP.full story
The Japanese art collective known as Kingyobu ('goldfish club'), made up largely of students from Kyoto University of Art and Design, has been installing these goldfish phone booth aquariums called Gold Tele, throughout Osaka, Japan as part of the city ...full story
The independent Tokyo-based artist's specialty is stencil-dyeing, which requires just the right amount of constant pressure with her right hand as she glides a wooden spatula across the paper stencil covering a 13-meter-long, 30-cm-wide roll of heavy ...full story
Infinity Dots is a retrospective of art by renowned Japanese painter Yayoi Kusama, whose work is inspired by the auditory and visual hallucinations she began experiencing as a young child. In Kusuma's colorful creations, the Earth is just one of a ...full story
1983) has installed his panels so seamlessly into Kyoto's eN arts gallery that the works first appear to be done on the walls. Though having trained as an oil painter, the soft scumblings and wisps of smoke and licks of fire in a restricted palette of ...full story
