Takagi's exhibition "Blender" is the latest public art project to come to Times Square. Artist Hidemi Takagi found this Colombian guava paste in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan. (Hidemi Takagi) Takagi, who was born in Kyoto, Japan and now calls Brooklyn ...full story

"The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Kyoto City Zoo. This is the first time we have looked at our works not only from an art historical point of view but also from the perspective of zoology," says Meiko Nagashima, a curator at the ...full story

Kamishibi heavily influenced the art of mangas as well, which are Japanese graphic novels. "I did research in Kyoto under a Kamishibi master and went to a manga museum there," Specht explained. "They have a whole room dedicated to Kamishibi for its ...full story

... Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka and Faenza, he was awarded Merit Prize at the 1st Taiwan International Ceramics Biennale in 2004. In 2010 he received the Kyoto City Artist Prize, which is one of the most valuable Japanese art awards. — acidolatte.blogspot.com.full story

His friends in the Tokyo art world received the news with a great sense of loss, but that feeling quickly turned to an urgent sense of purpose as they set about preserving his memory and works. They collected 51 paintings from Aoki's tragically short ...full story

In September, he will deliver the illustrious Norton Lectures at Harvard, and was the 2011 recipient of the Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy, the Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Nobel laureate Gordimer will read from her work and talk about ...full story

KYOTO — Three never-exhibited works by the renowned Japanese painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) will go on display late this year at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, according to the museum. The paintings — two portraits of a ...full story

This summer exhibition brings together nihonga (Japanese-style painting), artifacts, kimonos and more that feature animal motifs such as dogs, cats, rabbits, elephants and raccoons — all from the collection of the Kyoto National Museum, which houses ...full story

An exhibition showing the work of German-Swiss painter Paul Klee will be at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) for one more month, ending on July 31st. The retrospective will show nearly 200 works from the artist's oeuvre, ...full story

Many have already seen the exhibition during its run at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and many more will see it during the remainder of its Tokyo run through July 31, but what they see may not be the show they expect. ...full story