... Bits: Empowering Art of the Future, it shows the video art pieces of Naoko Tosa, 50, a Japanese contemporary artist who is an art and technology professor at Kyoto University, and a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. ...full story

In 1765, the artist gave them to the Shokokuji Monastery in Kyoto and they were given to the Imperial Household in 1889. “They are in very good condition, and they really show off to maximum effect the technical complexity in the genre of bird and ...full story

... The Textbook Room at Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna, The House of the Newly-weds at Milano Triennale, Infinite Furniture at the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and Kyoto, Fin-de-Siecle Rooma at the Centre Geroge Pompidou in Paris and many others. ...full story

Titled, Cultural Bits: Empowering Art of the Future, the exhibition shows the video art works of Naoko Tosa, 50, a leading Japanese contemporary artist who is an art and technology professor at Kyoto University and a visiting professor of the National ...full story

Inside the storage box, in which the armor is contained, is an inscription written by San Ko Shoeki, the founder of the Kyushoin temple in Kyoto where the armor is thought to be located. In the closing of his inscription, he states, “When I look at ...full story

The cabinet features a design of a famous boating excursion on the Oi River in Saga Arashiyama, the western outskirts of the Heian capital (modern Kyoto). The chest was designed by a painter and signed by lacquer artists: Kawanobe Itcho, ...full story

Wakabayashi will also discuss how these innovative ideas are being passed to the young generations, based on his ongoing career as a professor at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. “I'm very proud to present this special event in cooperation with ...full story

At the ARTZONE Gallery in Kyoto City, Japan, Tato Architects managed to construct an intriguing and (remarkably) structurally sound installation using 3M's wonderful invention. Tato was commissioned to create an art installation that set the backdrop ...full story

The public lecture offers insight into the design and production process of the often complex and intricate work on display in his current solo exhibition titled "Synthesis" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Nawa grew up in the Kansai region and ...full story

4. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; (075) 761-4111; Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto; 10-min. walk from Higashiyama Station, Tozai Line. 9:30 am-5 pm (Fri., till 8 pm) ¥1300. Closed Mon. www.momak.go.jp.full story