Art Osaka started in 2002 by a group of local galleries in Osaka to showcase the forefront of Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe etc.) art scene. The fair is the oldest contemporary art fair in Japan and distinguished from other fairs in the following manners ... full story
The art is good, but the museum's handling of it is conceptually, and indescribably, bizarre. “Nostalgia and Fantasy: Imagination and its Origins in Contemporary Art” at The National Museum of Art, Osaka, runs till Sept. 15; open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Fri ... full story
Japanese art is very distinctive and contrasts greatly with classical European art and clearly religious differences, environmental factors, distance, limited social interaction between both poles and other important factors is behind this. Ike No ... full story
2014年7月12日(土)、13日(日)に第12回目となる現代美術のアートフェア「ART OSAKA 2014」をホテルグランヴィア大阪の26階で開催。 今年は、現代美術を専門的に扱う国内外の53ギャラリーが一堂に会し、国際的に活躍するアーティストたちから、将来を期待できる若手作家 ... full story
Her first fog installation was in 1970 at the Osaka World Expo, where she enveloped the Pepsi Pavilion in dense fog in collaboration with the avant-garde artists' collaborative Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), founded by artist Robert ... full story
He recently led a Carnegie Museums group of 18 to see "Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal," a Warhol retrospective that has traveled across Asia for two years and closed Tuesday at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum. The show ... Earlier this year, Sotheby's in ... full story
The power of the Shinto faith runs deep throughout the fabric of Japanese religion, folklore, culture and other important aspects of society. Buddhism which emanated from outside of Japan would also greatly impact itself within the fabric of society ... full story
We are also excited to welcome newcomers from all four corners of the world, including Lagos, Berlin, Beijing, Dubai, Buenos Aires, Osaka, Mumbai, and São Paulo." For Arthouse - The Space, easily the most established and highly respected auction house ... full story
Asian art dealership, Yamanaka & Company, Inc., was one of the primary providers of Asian antiquities to the west, and had offices in New York, Beijing, Osaka and London. Some time prior to 1940, one of its employees removed this painting from a Korean ... full story
He was born and raised in an inner city working-class Osaka neighborhood, and his fascination for architecture began while watching carpenters rebuild the tenement row house that was his family's home. However, economic hardships and academic ... full story
