Nowhere else can you find so many Japanese art forms in one place as in the ancient capital of Kyoto. Meet six people working to pass on its artistic heritage, in new ways and old. Related slideshow: Meet the artists of Kyoto. Calligraphy Japan learnt ...full story

Exploring themes of dimensions and time, Japan's contemporary art scene is a cosmos of its own. By MATTHEW LARKING. Special to The Japan Times. "The Cosmos as Metaphor' at Taka Ishii Gallery and Hotel Anteroom Kyoto is almost entirely engaging.full story

Tokyo is an energetic city, filled with frenetic motion and bustle. These tend to be difficult to capture, unless your canvas is an entire room, as it is for teamLab's mural at the new Tokyo Skytree. Filling the walls of a room at the size of 130-feet ...full story

I browse the exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (see momak.go.jp) and visit the Commes de Garcon boutique (378 Kameyacho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto; see comme-des-garcons.com). Its designer has a highly intellectual type of clothing.and more »full story

I browse the exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (see momak.go.jp) and visit the Commes de Garcon boutique (378 Kameyacho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto; see comme-des-garcons.com). Its designer has a highly intellectual type of clothing.and more »full story

The museum was built by the municipal government in cooperation with Kyoto Seika University, the sole Japanese university that has classes on manga culture and teaches skills to become a professional manga artist. It is Japan's first museum ...full story

If you stay in Kyoto you have the possibility to see seven kinds of performing arts in front of your own eyes within only one hour - at Gion Corner, a unique theater. Because all the performances are explained in Japanese and English, Gion Corner is ...full story

With a boldness unusual in a young woman of her day, she left home, under a cloud of disapproval, for art school in Kyoto. There she customized academic styles to her own subversive ends. In the show's earliest painting, “Lingering Dream” from 1949 ...full story

"Function Dysfunction" at the Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, brings together the ceramic works of three Americans: ceramicists Adam Silverman and Ani Kasten, and sculptor Alma Allen. Silverman, who felt that their works shared an aesthetic DNA, brought ...full story

Unlike the bright lights and skyscrapers of Tokyo, Kyoto makes an effort to preserve Japan's history. Visit this area to see important sites like the Imperial Palace, ...full story