Ms. Kataoka said fairs aren't an ideal place to view art. "But adding a curated section encourages viewers to see work with more meaning," said Ms. Kataoka, who directed the fair's Japanese platform, which includes Osaka-based artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi ...full story
Yoshimi Kurata is a very busy man. In addition to drawing for several manga series, he teaches courses in manga at Otemae University in Osaka and at Kyoto University of Art and Design. From Tokyo, his primary residence, he flies to Osaka for class at ...full story
Osaka-born Tetsumi Kudo's oeuvre has been the subject of a number of major international retrospectives since his death in 1990, and these indicate the artist's increasing postwar historical significance. The current National Museum of Art, Osaka ...full story
Osaka was obsessively in love withkabuki… its actors and dramas… with the milieu of the theatre and the associated bohemian world of arts appreciation, poetry cliques and modern ideas. Woodblock printing more or less ceased to exist for several years ...full story
She first became aware of art restoration as a profession while she was trying to gain admission to Tokyo University of the Arts. She devoted a year to studying to pass the entrance examination after failing on her first try. In the summer of that year ...full story
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, is currently presenting “Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective”, a retrospective of works by the Osaka-born Tetsumi Kudo, to run until 19 January 2014. The exhibition offers a comprehensive study of over thirty ...full story
Your Portrait was one of Kudo Testsumi's favorite and most frequently used titles. While the word "you" indicated the person looking at the work, and suggested that we are constrained by a variety of established values and conventions, it also referred ...full story
It collapsed in Hong Kong in May, got stuck under a bridge in Osaka last month, and yesterday exploded in Taiwan. The iconic creation of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman began to droop at its display site in Taoyuan on Thursday night, victim of a power ...full story
(Around Osaka, escalator etiquette is reversed.) 3. Drink outside, smoke inside. The more enclosed a space is, the more likely you'll be allowed to smoke there. ... If you take a detour down a little unmarked road (most Japanese streets are unnamed ...full story
