Some venues, like the Social Kitchen in Kyoto, are reminiscent of projects in other "off center" cities like Milwaukee, she says. Are there conditions in these off-center locales that are conducive to hybrid art? This is something she's pondering ...full story
He is recounting a day spent in Kyoto with his fellow minimalist pioneer Sol Lewitt some 40 years ago. They roamed from temple to temple and listened to monks explain the symbolism of each themed garden, before coming to a ... just look at it,” says ...full story
Kyoto - The Temple of Sanjusangen-do located in Kyoto, Japan, housing over 1000 wood-carved, gold-leaf-covered, statues of religious figures dating from the Thirteen Century, is one of the most outstanding cultural treasures of Japanese Buddhism.full story
Suzuki, who attends Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga, said she aspires to become a professional cartoonist and to produce work that will encourage a sense of happiness among young female readers. Another teenage manga artist, who goes by the ...full story
Masterworks of traditional Japanese art will be the subject of JADA 2013: An Exhibition by the Japanese Art Dealers Association from March 15 to March 20, 2013 during New York's sprawling Asia Week events. The collaborative exhibition by members of the ...full story
The title and inspiration for this permanent work, which has smaller loops for those who don't wish to take the invigorating 2.7-mile walk, came from the philosophers' walks in cities such as Heidelberg, Germany, and Kyoto, Japan, where poets, scholars ...full story
"A Close Look at Kyoto's Painting Studios" at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art is concerned with Kyoto gadan (modern nihonga [Japanese painting] circles), an appellation coined in 1911 at a lecture by the principal of the Kyoto Municipal Special ...full story
By Ellen Himelfarb. While Hong Kong's art world has seen a steady stream of gallery openings in recent years, its cultural rival Singapore is hoping to vault ahead with its freshly opened 4,800sq m contemporary art hub of 13 international galleries.full story
In 1962, she returned to Tokyo where she extended her New York performance at the Sogetsu Art Center. In 1964 she performed Cut Piece in Kyoto and Tokyo and published Grapefruit. At the end of that year she returned to New York, and in 1965 and 1966 ...full story
In 1962, she returned to Tokyo where she extended her New York performance at the Sogetsu Art Center. In 1964 she performed Cut Piece in Kyoto and Tokyo and published Grapefruit. At the end of that year she returned to New York, and in 1965 and 1966 ...full story
