After concluding at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography on June 5, the "Exhibition of the JPS" will tour to the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Nagoya (July 7-10), Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Aug. 9-14) and Hiroshima Prefectural Art ...full story

The Japanese capital of Tokyo has traditionally been seen as the centre of the country's art scene, but a major event in Kyoto is aiming to steal the limelight. Art Fair Tokyo is the biggest international art fair in Japan, but it had to be cancelled ...full story

Art views: "Real World 01, #041" (2006) by Seung Woo Back, one of the participating artists in Art Fair Kyoto. COURTESY OF MISA SHIN GALLERY Japan's largest commercial international art fair, Art Fair Tokyo, was postponed as its venue, ...full story

His most recent paintings in his solo exhibition at the imura art gallery, kyoto also show glimpses from behind his now all female figures. Part of this alludes to the young womenswear fashion show Tokyo Girls Collection, a contemporary phenomenon for ...full story

However, he became more well-known in the local and international art communities for his experimental, independent animation works. His one-man animation shows travelled from Tokyo and Kyoto to Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany, and the Czech Republic. ...full story

I'd visited the city of 1.5 million (two million more if you factor in adjacent Osaka) a few months earlier. And while Kyoto is widely known for its Zen Buddhist temples and gardens, traditional wooden houses, fine arts and crafts, and opportunity to ...full story

These experiences opened him up to new artistic directions and in 1975 he became the first Art Director of Playboy Monthly (Japanese Edition). He has worked as a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design since 1991, and his work continues to be ...full story

During his six-month residence in Kyoto, Monteith came to understand the spirit of the Japanese people; visiting their gardens and shrines, some of them centuries old, he was amazed that they had been spared during World War II, and equally amazed by ...full story

(AP Photo/Kyodo News) The Mississippi Museum of Art is showing “The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854–1918,” and “Kyoto Views: The Art of Randy Hayes” through July 17 in Jackson. The museum is joining many nonprofit institutions ...full story

Her work was the subject of a traveling retrospective that originated at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto in 1995 and the exhibition “The Poetry of Clay: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2004. ...full story